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Lyrics for Paradise Muhlenberg County by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Paradise Muhlenberg County | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 165 | | | | Lyrics: | PARADISE (Muhlenberg County)
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When I was a child, my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my
parents were born
And there's a backwoods old town that's often remembered
So many times
that my memories are worn
And daddy, won't you take be back to Muhlenberg
County
Down by the Green river where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but
you're too late in asking
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
Well
sometimes we'd travel right down the Green river
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrien
hill.
Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our
pistols
But
empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
CHORUS
Then the coal company came with
the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well,
they dug for their coal 'till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress
of man.
CHORUS
Words and music by John Prine, copyright 1971
Walden Music, Inc.
and Sour Grapes Music, all rights reserved.
Recorded on his first
album, Voices from the Mountains
Paradise is - or was - an actual town in Eastern
Kentucky before
the area was completely demolished by the Peabody Coal Company's
stripping
operations.
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