Paradise

	  		
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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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To a backwards old town I often remembered 
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So many times that my memories are worn 
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Than, sometimes we'd travel on down the Green River 
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrian Hill 
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Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols 
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But empty pop bottles was all that we?d kill 

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Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County 
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Down by the green river where paradise lay?" 
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking 
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away" 
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Well the coal company came with the world's largest shovel 
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They stripped all the timber and tortured the land 
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They dug for the coal till the land was forsaken 
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man 

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Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County 
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Down by the green river where paradise lay?" 
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking 
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away" 

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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 waitin' 
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Five miles away from wherever I am 
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Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County 
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Down by the green river where paradise lay?" 
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking 
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away" 
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking 
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"