Paradise
John Prine

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When I was a child my family would travel 
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Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
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And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
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So many times that the memories are worn

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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

Refrain

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel 
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man

Refrain

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am

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