Paradise - John Prine Chords
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C F C
When I was a child my family would travel,
C Am G C
down to western Kentucky where my parents were born.
F C F
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered,
G C
so many times that my memories are worn.
C F C
And Daddy won't you take me back to Mulemberg County.
Am G C
Down by the Green River where paradise lay.
F C
I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'
Am G C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
C F C
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
C Am G C
to an abandoned old prison down by Ebrie Hill.
F C
Where the air smelled like snakes we'd shoot with our pistols,
G C
but empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
C F C
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,
Am G C
and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land.
F C
Well they dug for their coal 'till the land was forsaken,
Am G C
then wrote it all down as the progress of man.
C F C
When I die let my ashes flow down the Green River.
Am G C
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam.
F C
I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waitin'
G C
just five miles away from wherever I am.
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