Chords for Tom T. Hall - Paradise

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_ _ _ _ Hey when I was a child [G] my family [D] would travel
Down to western Kentucky where [A] my [D] parents were told
To a backwoods old town [G] so [D] often remembered
So many times that all [A] my [D] memories are old
Daddy won't you take me [G] back to Munenburg [D] County
Down by the green river [A] where [D] paradise lays
Oh I'm sorry my son but you're [G] too late [D] in asking
That the Peabody coal [A] train done hauled [D] it away
You know sometimes we'd float [G] down by the [D] green river
Down to old Bannon Prison down [A] to [D] Avery Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes [G] and we'd shoot with our [D] rifle
But empty pop bottles [A] was all [D] we could kill
_ Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Munenburg County
Daddy won't you take me back to Munenburg County
Down by the green [A] river where [D] paradise lays
Oh I'm sorry my son [G] but you're too [D] late in asking
That the Peabody coal train [A] done [D] hauled it away _
_ _ Then the coal company [G] came with the world's largest [D] shovel
And they tortured the timber [A] and smithed all [D] the land
But they dug for that coal till the [G] land was [D] forsaken
And they wrote it all down out [A] of the [D] progress of man _
Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Munenburg County
Down by the green [A] river where paradise [D]
lays
Oh I'm sorry my son [G] but you're too [D] late in asking
That the Peabody coal train [A] done hauled [D] it away _ _ _ _
When I die let my body [G] float down the [D] green river
Let my soul on up [A] to the Rochester [D] dam
I'll be halfway to heaven [G] with [D] paradise away
Five miles away [A] from wherever
[D] _ _ _ Daddy won't you take [G] me back to [D] Munenburg County
Down by the green river [A] where paradise [D] lays
Oh I'm sorry my son [G] but you're too [D] late in asking
That the Peabody coal train [A] done hauled it [D] away _
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