Chords for Paradise

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