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Paradise chords John Prine (1971) Capo II or open D MajorD G+G A7A7 C majorC C majorC FF C majorC When I was a child my family would travel, G7G7 C majorC down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born FF C majorC And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered, G7G7 C majorC so many times that my memories are worn. C majorC FF C majorC And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7G7 C majorC down by the Green River where Paradise lay FF C majorC Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7G7 C majorC Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C majorC FF C majorC Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River, G7G7 C majorC to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill FF C majorC Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols, G7G7 C majorC but empty pop bottles was all we would kill. C majorC FF C majorC And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7G7 C majorC down by the Green River where Paradise lay FF C majorC Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7G7 C majorC Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C majorC FF C majorC Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel, G7G7 C majorC and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land FF C majorC Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken, G7G7 C majorC then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. C majorC FF C majorC And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7G7 C majorC down by the Green River where Paradise lay FF C majorC Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7G7 C majorC Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away C majorC FF C majorC When I die let my ashes float down the Green River, G7G7 C majorC let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam FF C majorC I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin', G7G7 C majorC just five miles away from wherever I am. C majorC FF C majorC And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, G7G7 C majorC down by the Green River where Paradise lay FF C majorC Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, G7G7 C majorC Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away Set8
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