Paradise Letra

When I was a child, my family would travelDown to western Kentucky where my parents were bornThere's a backwards old town that's often rememberedSo many times that the memories are wornAnd daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askingMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it awaySometimes we'd travel right down the Green RiverTo the abandoned old prison down by Adrie HillWhere the air smelled like snakesAnd we'd shoot with our pistolsBut empty pop bottles was all we would killAnd daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askingMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it awayThe coal company came with the world's largest shovelAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the landAnd they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsakenThey wrote it all down as the progress of manAnd daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askingMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it awayAnd daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askingMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away