Chords for John Prine - Paradise - German Afternoons
Tempo:
57.05 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
A
E
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
When I was a child [G] my family [D] would travel down to western Kentucky where my parents were born.
And there's a backwards old town [G] that's [D] often remembered so many times that my memories are warm.
Daddy won't [G] you take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
[B] [D] Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River to the abandoned old prison [E] down by Yggdrasil.
Well the air smelled like snakes when we'd shoot with our pistols but empty pipe bottles
was all we would kill.
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
[A] [D] [G] [D]
[A] [D] Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel but well they tortured the
timber and they stripped all the land.
Well then the duck poured the coal till the land was forsaken and then they wrote it all
down as the progress of man.
Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [E] my son but [D] you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
[D] [A]
When I die let my ashes float down the [D] Green River let my soul roll on up to Rochester Dane.
I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waiting just five miles away from wherever I am.
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where [D] Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [G] my son but you're too late [D] in asking Mr.
[A] Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a [D]-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is a-hauling it away.
[D]
And there's a backwards old town [G] that's [D] often remembered so many times that my memories are warm.
Daddy won't [G] you take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
[B] [D] Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River to the abandoned old prison [E] down by Yggdrasil.
Well the air smelled like snakes when we'd shoot with our pistols but empty pipe bottles
was all we would kill.
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
[A] [D] [G] [D]
[A] [D] Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel but well they tortured the
timber and they stripped all the land.
Well then the duck poured the coal till the land was forsaken and then they wrote it all
down as the progress of man.
Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [E] my son but [D] you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
[D] [A]
When I die let my ashes float down the [D] Green River let my soul roll on up to Rochester Dane.
I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waiting just five miles away from wherever I am.
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where [D] Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [G] my son but you're too late [D] in asking Mr.
[A] Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a [D]-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is a-hauling it away.
[D]
Key:
D
G
A
E
B
D
G
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ When I was a child [G] my family [D] would travel down to western Kentucky where my parents were born.
And there's a backwards old town [G] that's [D] often remembered so many times that my memories are warm.
Daddy won't [G] you take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
_ [B] [D] Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River to the abandoned old prison [E] down by Yggdrasil.
Well the air smelled like snakes when we'd shoot with our pistols but empty pipe bottles
was all we would kill.
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away. _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel but well they tortured the
timber and they stripped all the land.
Well then the duck poured the coal till the land was forsaken and then they wrote it all
down as the progress of man.
Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [E] my son but [D] you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ When I die let my ashes float down the [D] Green River let my soul roll on up to Rochester Dane.
I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waiting just five miles away from wherever I am.
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where [D] Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [G] my son but you're too late [D] in asking Mr.
[A] Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a [D]-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is a-hauling it away.
[D] _ _
And there's a backwards old town [G] that's [D] often remembered so many times that my memories are warm.
Daddy won't [G] you take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
_ [B] [D] Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River to the abandoned old prison [E] down by Yggdrasil.
Well the air smelled like snakes when we'd shoot with our pistols but empty pipe bottles
was all we would kill.
Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away. _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel but well they tortured the
timber and they stripped all the land.
Well then the duck poured the coal till the land was forsaken and then they wrote it all
down as the progress of man.
Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [E] my son but [D] you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ When I die let my ashes float down the [D] Green River let my soul roll on up to Rochester Dane.
I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waiting just five miles away from wherever I am.
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where [D] Paradise Lake is.
Well I'm sorry [G] my son but you're too late [D] in asking Mr.
[A] Peabody's coal train is a-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train is a [D]-hauling it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is a-hauling it away.
[D] _ _