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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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There's a backwards old town that's often remembered |
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So many times that my 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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. |
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Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River |
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill |
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Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols |
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. |
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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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. |
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Hey! |
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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel |
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And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land |
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Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken |
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. |
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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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. |
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When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River |
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam |
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I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin' |
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Just five miles away from wherever I am. |
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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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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. |
