Paradise
written by John Prine for the Everly brothers birthplace, Brownie KY.
Recorded by THE EVERLY BROTHERS
From the album Pass the Chicken and Listen, 1971
submitted by Shawn Wells rainmakr@gte.net
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When I was a child my family would travel
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Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
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And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered
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So many times that my memories are worn
CHORUS
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And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in asking
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Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
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Where the air smelt like snakes that we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
REPEAT CHORUS
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Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel
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And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land
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Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
REPEAT CHORUS
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When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
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I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting
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Just five miles away from wherever I am
REPEAT CHORUS AND FADE
