Paradise Chords by Johnny Cash

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When I was a child [Eb] my family [Bb] would travel back to western Kentucky where my parents
were born to a backward old town [Eb] that I often [Bb] remember so many times that [F] my memories [Bb] are
warm. _ _ _ _ _
Then sometimes we'd travel [Eb] on down the [Bb] Green River to the abandoned old prison [F] down
by [Bb] Adrian's Hill _ where the air smelled like snakes and [Eb] we'd shoot with [Bb] our pistols but
empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
_ _ Daddy won't you take me [Eb] back to [Bb] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green River where paradise lay.
_ I'm sorry my son but [Eb] you're too late [Bb] in asking
Mr.
Peabody's coal train done hauled it away. _ _
_ _ _ _ Well the coal companies came with the [Eb] world's
[Bb] largest shovel they tortured the timber [F] and stripped all [Bb] the land.
_ The ducked for the coal till [Eb] the land
was [Bb] forsaken then wrote it all down to the progress of man. _
Oh daddy won't you take me [Eb] back to
[Bb] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where paradise lay.
_ I'm sorry my son but [Eb] you're too [Bb] late
in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train done hauled it away. _ _ _ _ _
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When I die let my ashes [Eb] float down the
[Bb] Green River let my soul roll on up to [F] the Rochester [Bb]
down.
_ I'll be halfway to heaven [Eb] with [Bb] paradise
waiting five miles away from [F]
wherever [Bb] I am.
_ Oh daddy won't you take me [Eb] back to [Bb] Muhlenberg County down by
the Green River where paradise lay.
_ I'm sorry my son but [Eb] you're too [Bb] late in asking Mr.
Peabody's coal train done hauled it away. _
I'm sorry my son [Eb] but you're too [Bb] late in asking Mr.
_ Peabody's coal train _ [F]
hauled [Bb] it away. _ _ _ _
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