Paradise Chords by John Prine

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_ _ _ When I was a child, [G] my [D] family would travel down to western Kentucky [A] where my [D] parents were born.
_ There's a backwards old [G] town that's [D] often remembered, so many [A] times that my [D] memories are worn. _ _
_ _ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where Pierre [D] d'Ascelet. _
Well, I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away. _ _ _
_ Well, sometimes we'd travel [G] right down [D] the Green River to the abandoned old prison down by Adria Hill _
Where the air smelled like snakes [G] and we'd shoot with [D] our pistols, but empty pop bottles was all that we killed. _ _ _
_ Daddy, won't you [G] take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where Pierre d [D]'Ascelet.
Well, I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it [D] away.
Come on, kid, we're down there, kid. _
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_ then the coal company came [G] with the [D] world's largest shovel.
They tortured the timber [A] and stripped [D] all the land. _
They dug for the coal [G] till the land was [D] forsaken, and then they wrote it all down [A] as the [D] progress in Maine. _ _ _
_ Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where Pierre [D] d'Ascelet. _
Well, I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train [A] has [D] hauled it away.
How about it, fam? _ _
Beautiful!
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_ Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ when the dabbling masses [G] float down the [D] Green River, I'll let my soul roll on up [A] to the Rochester [D] Dam.
_ I'll be halfway to heaven [G] with [D] Paradise waiting, just five miles away [A] from wherever [D] I am.
_ _ _ Daddy, won't you [G] take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where [D] Pierre d'Ascelet.
_ Well, I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away. _
_ _ _ Mr.
Peabody's coal train [A] has [D] hauled it away. _ _ _ _
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it _ [D] away.
_ _ _ _ Thank you very much for coming out tonight.
_ We appreciate it.
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_ Thanks to Karen Kane, _ _ Kevin Welch, _ _ Fess Kaplan, _ _ _ _ _ and Jason, why don't you take us home. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ you very much.
Good night and God [N] bless you. _ _ _ _ _
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