Johnny Cash
Album: Personal File - Disc 1 (Legacy Recordings)
Track: Paradise
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Paradise Lyrics (John Prine)
'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 'askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train done 'hauled it 'away
When 'I was a child, my 'family would 'travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my 'parents were 'born
To a backward old town that I 'often 'remember
So many times that 'memories are 'worn
And sometimes we'd travel on down 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-bottles was all we would kill
'So 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 'askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train done 'hauled it 'away
The coal company came with the world's largest shovel
They stripped all the timber and tortured the land
They dug for the coal till the land was forsaken
And wrote it all down to the progress of 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 'askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train done 'hauled it 'away
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 waitin'
Five miles away from wherever I am
'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 'askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train done 'hauled it 'away
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