Paradise Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]When I was a child,
my family would travel
Down to western
Kentucky where my [G]parents
were born
[C]There's a backwoods old town
that's of[F]ten re[C]membered
So many times [G]that my memories are [C]worn
And daddy won't you take
me back to
[F]Muhlenberg
[C]County
Down by the green river
where [G]paradise [C]lays
I'm sorry my child but you're
[F]too late in ask[C]ing
[G]Mr.
[C]Peabody's gold train is hauling
[G]away[C][F][C][G][C]
Well, sometimes we'd
travel right [F]down the
Green
River
[C]To an abandoned old prison down by
[G]Adria
Hill
[C]Where the air smelled like snakes and
we'd [F]shoot with our [C]pistols
But empty pop bottles
was [G]all we would [C]kill
And
Daddy, won't you take
me back to
[F]Muhlenberg
[C]County
Down by the green river
where [G]paradise [C]lays
Well, [G]I'm [C]sorry my child,
but [F]you're too late in [C]asking
[G]Mr.
[C]Peabody's gold [B]train is [F#]haul[G]ing
[C]away[G][C][F][C][G][C]
[G]Then the [C]coal company came with
the [F]world's largest [C]shovel
They tortured the timber and
they [G]stripped all the [C]land
Well [G]they [C]dug for their coal till
the [F]land was for[C]saken
Then they wrote it all down as
the pro[G]gress of [C]man
And
[G]Dad[C]dy, won't you take
me back to
[F]Muhlenberg
[C]County
Down by the green river
where [G]paradise [C]lays
Well, [G]I'm [C]sorry my child,
but [F]you're too late in [C]asking
[G]Mr.[C][G]
[C]Peabody's coal train
[B]has hauled [G]it [C]away
[G]Mr.
[C]Peabody's cold train [G]is hauling away

[Outro 1]
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