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Artist/Band: John Prine
Lyrics for Song: Paradise
Lyrics for Album: The Singing Mailman Delivers [2011]



When I was a child

My family would travel

down to Western Kentucky

Where my parents were born

and theres a backwards old town

Thats often remembered

So many times,

that my memories are worn



(Chorus)

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County

down by the Green River

where Paradise lays.

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 Avery hill

Where the air smelled like snakes

We'd shoot with our pistols

but empty pop bottles

was all we would kill



(chorus)

(music break)



And the coal company came

with the worlds largest shovel

and they tortured the timber

and stripped all the land

well they dug for their coal

'til the land was forsaken

and they wrote it all down

as the progress of man



(chorus)



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 heven

With Paradise waiting

just 5 miles away

from wherever I am



(chorus)


Album Lyrics: The Singing Mailman Delivers [2011]


John Prine
"The Singing Mailman Delivers [2011]"


1. Illegal Smile
2. Souvenirs
3. Blue Umbrella
4. Hello In There
5. Paradise
6. Aw Heck
7. The Frying Pan
8. Sour Grapes