Paradise

When I was a child, my family would travel

Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born

There's a backwards old town that's often remembered

So many times that the memories are worn



And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away



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



And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away



The coal company came with the world's largest shovel

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

And they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken

They wrote it all down as the progress of man



And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away



And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away