W
C
hen
I was a child
F
my family wo
C
uld
travel,
down to Western Kentucky where my
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parents
were
C
born
And there's a backwards old town that's
F
often
re
C
membered,
so many times that my
G7
memories
are
C
worn.
And
C
daddy
won't you take me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County,
down by the Green River where
G7
Paradise
C
lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're
F
too
late in
C
asking,
Mr. Peabody's coal train has
G7
hauled
it a
C
way
Well,
C
sometimes
we'd travel right
F
down
the Green
C
River,
to the abandoned old prison down by
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Adrie
C
Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd
F
shoot
with our
C
pistols,
but empty pop bottles was
G7
all
we would
C
kill.
And
C
daddy
won't you take me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County,
down by the Green River where
G7
Paradise
C
lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're
F
too
late in
C
asking,
Mr. Peabody's coal train has
G7
hauled
it a
C
way
Then the
C
coal
company came with the
F
world's
largest
C
shovel,
and they tortured the timber and
G7
stripped
all the
C
land
Well, they dug for their coal till the
F
land
was for
C
saken,
then they wrote it all down as the
G7
progress
of
C
man.
And
C
daddy
won't you take me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County,
down by the Green River where
G7
Paradise
C
lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're
F
too
late in
C
asking,
Mr. Peabody's coal train has
G7
hauled
it a
C
way
When I
C
die
let my ashes float
F
down
the Green
C
River,
let my soul roll on up to the
G7
Rochester
C
dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with
F
Paradise
C
waitin',
just five miles away from wher
G7
ever
I
C
am.
And
C
daddy
won't you take me back to
F
Muhlenberg
C
County,
down by the Green River where
G7
Paradise
C
lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're
F
too
late in
C
asking,
Mr. Peabody's coal train has
G7
hauled
it a
C
way