Paradise Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]When I was a child,
my family would travel down to western Kentucky
where my [A]parents [D]were born.
There's a backwoods old town
there that's often remembered,
so many times that my
[A]memories are [D]worn.
And [G]daddy, won't you take me back
to [D]Muhlenberg County
Down [G]by the green river
where [D]paradise [A]lays
I'm [D]sorry my son,
but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train
has [A]hauled it [D]away[G][A][D]
Sometimes we'd float on
down the Green River
By the old abandoned prison
down [A]by Adria [D]Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles
was [A]all we would [D]kill
Then [G]Daddy won't you take me back
to [D]Muhlenberg County
Down [G]by the Green River
where [D]paradise [A]lay
I'm [D]sorry, my son,
but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal trans
[A]ported [D]away[A][D]
Then the coal company came with
the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber
and [A]stripped all the [D]land
They dug for the coal
till the land was forsaken
And wrote it all down to
the pro[A]gress of [D]man
And [G]daddy, won't you take me back
to [D]Muhlenberg County
Down [G]by the green river
where [D]paradise [A]lay
I'm [D]sorry my son,
but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train has
[A]hauled it [D]away[A][D]
When I die, let my ashes flow on
down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to
[A]the Rochester [D]Dales
I'll be halfway to heaven
with paradise waiting
Just five miles away [A]from wherever I [D]am
Then [G]daddy, won't you take me back
to [D]Muhlenberg County
Down [G]by the green river
where [D]paradise [A]lays
I'm [D]sorry, my son,
but you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's cold train has [A]hauled it away
[D]Mr. Peabody's cold train is hau[A]nted away
[D]Mr. Peabody's cold train
[A]is haunted [D]away