Johnny Cash - Country, In English

Paradise [Personal File version]

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Duration: 3:03

[Chorus] Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay? "I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away" [Verse 1] When I was a child, my family would travel Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born To a backward old town that I often remembered So many times that my memories are worn [Verse 2] And sometimes, we'd travel on down the Green River To the abandoned old prison down by Adrian's Hill Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [Chorus] So Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay? "I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away" [Verse 3] The coal company came with the world's largest shovel They stripped all the timber and tortured the land They dug for the coal 'til the land was forsaken Then wrote it all down to the progress of man [Chorus] So Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay? "I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away" [Verse 4] 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 Five miles away from wherever I am [Chorus] So Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay? "I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away"

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Writers: John Prine

Paradise [Personal File version]

Paradise [Personal File version]

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