Paradise Lyrics

Song	Paradise
Artist	John Prine
Album	Great Days: The John Prine Anthology
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	Lyrics：John Prine Music：John Prine
	When i was a child my family would travel
	Down to western kentucky where my parents were born
	And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
	So many times that my memories are worn.
	Chorus:
	And daddy won't you take me back to muhlenberg county
	Down by the green river where paradise lay
	Well, i'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
	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 and we'd shoot with our pistols
	But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
	Repeat chorus:
	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 till the land was forsaken
	Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
	Repeat chorus:
	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 waitin'
	Just five miles away from wherever i am.
	Repeat chorus:

	Lyrics: John Prine Music: John Prine
	When i was a child my family would travel
	Down to western kentucky where my parents were born
	And there' s a backwards old town that' s often remembered
	So many times that my memories are worn.
	Chorus:
	And daddy won' t you take me back to muhlenberg county
	Down by the green river where paradise lay
	Well, i' m sorry my son, but you' re too late in asking
	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 and we' d shoot with our pistols
	But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
	Repeat chorus:
	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 till the land was forsaken
	Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
	Repeat chorus:
	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 waitin'
	Just five miles away from wherever i am.
	Repeat chorus:

	Lyrics: John Prine Music: John Prine
	When i was a child my family would travel
	Down to western kentucky where my parents were born
	And there' s a backwards old town that' s often remembered
	So many times that my memories are worn.
	Chorus:
	And daddy won' t you take me back to muhlenberg county
	Down by the green river where paradise lay
	Well, i' m sorry my son, but you' re too late in asking
	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 and we' d shoot with our pistols
	But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
	Repeat chorus:
	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 till the land was forsaken
	Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
	Repeat chorus:
	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 waitin'
	Just five miles away from wherever i am.
	Repeat chorus:

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