Pat Green - Paradise lyrics

When I was a child, my family would travel

To western Kentucky, where my parents were born

And theres a backward old town that is often remembered

So many times that my memories are worn

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And daddy won´t you take me back to Mulenberg county

Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay

Well I am sorry my son, but you are too late in askin´

Mr. Peabody´s coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we would float right down the Green River

To an abandoned old prison down by Atry Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes & we would shoot with our pistols

But empty pop bottles was all we´d kill

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Then the coal company came, with the world´s largest shovel

And they tortured the timber & stripped all the land

Well they dug for their coal until the land was forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

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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 will be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin´

Just five miles away from wherever I´m

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