Paradise
     3/4  key=D  John Prine


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

     When I was a boy my family would travel
     Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
     There's a backwoods old town that's often remembered
     So many times that my memories are worn

     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 and we'd shoot with our pistols
     But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

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

     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

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