Paradise Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

G

GWhen I was a child my Cfamily would traGvel

 Down to Western Kentucky where myD parents were Gborn

 And there's a backwards old town that'Cs often rememGbered

 So many times that Dmy memories are Gworn

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GAnd daddy won't you take me back to CMuhlenberg CouGnty

 Down by the green river Dwhere paradise Glay?

 Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're Ctoo late in asGking

 Mister Peabody's coal train hasD hauled it Gaway

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

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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

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(Muted Strings)

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'

Just five miles away from wherever I am

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