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P - Paradise Muhlenberg County PARADISE (Muhlenberg County) (G) G - C G / G C G C7 G / G - C G / G C G D7 G When I was a child, my family would travel Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born And there's a backwoods old town that's often remembered So many times that my memories are worn And daddy, won't you take be 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 Mr. 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 Adrien hill. Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. 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. CHORUS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Words and music by John Prine, copyright 1971 Walden Music, Inc. and Sour Grapes Music, all rights reserved. Recorded on his first album, Voices from the Mountains Paradise is - or was - an actual town in Eastern Kentucky before the area was completely demolished by the Peabody Coal Company's stripping operations. @mine filename[ PARADVAL DC ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY=== |
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