Paradise Road

(Dolly Parton)



I grew up dirty and I grew up poor, the wolf didn't even hang 'round our door

Not a crumb to spare and the cupboard bare

And I had the gift of imagination I could change my situation

Anytime I choose I could always go down Paradise Road

I found a kingdom deep within a place dream and to pretend

And to prepare for the world out there

A dream can dress you when you're ragged, fill you up when hunger's naggin'

I warmed my soul when life was cold on Paradise Road.



Chorus:

Paradise is a state of mind, the sun shines warm and all the time

And the rain don't flow and the wind don't blow on Paradise Road

A place no one can take from me, a place of everlasting peace

Where dreamers go; It's never closed Paradise Road.



--- Instrumental ---



Paradise is a state of mind down the road of life and time

And the friends we meet make the travlin' sweet on Paradise Road

Sometimes now when the world is mad I find that place I've always had

Inside my soul it's paved in gold, Paradise Road.



I grew up dirty and I grew up poor, the wolf didn't even hang 'round our door

Not a crumb to spare and the cupboard bare

But I had the gift of imagination I could change my situation

Anytime I choose I could always go down Paradise Road.



Paradise Road, Paradise Road,

Down Paradise Road, Paradise Road...