John Prine - Paradise Cover

Описание: [Verse 1]
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When I was a child my family would
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travel
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Down to Western Kentucky where my
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parents were born
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And there's a backwards old town that's
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often remembered
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So many times that my memories are
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worn.

[Chorus]
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And daddy won't you take me back to
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Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise
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lay
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too
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late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled
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it away

[Verse 2]
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Well sometimes we'd travel right down
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the Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by
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Adrie Hill
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Where the air smelled like snakes and
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we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would
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kill.

[Chorus]
D
And daddy won't you take me back to
G D
Muhlenberg County
D A
Down by the Green River where Paradise
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lay
D G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too
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late in asking
D A
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled
D
it away

[Verse 3]
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Then the coal company came with the
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world's largest shovel
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And they tortured the timber and
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stripped all the land
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Well, they dug for their coal 'til the
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land was forsaken
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Then they wrote it all down as the
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progress of man.

[Chorus]
D
And daddy won't you take me back to
G D
Muhlenberg County
D A
Down by the Green River where Paradise
D
lay
D G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too
D
late in asking
D A
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled
D
it away

[Verse 4]
D G
When I die let my ashes float down the
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Green River
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester
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dam
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I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise
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waiting
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Just five miles away from wherever I
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am.

[Chorus]
D
And daddy won't you take me back to
G D
Muhlenberg County
D A
Down by the Green River where Paradise
D
lay
D G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too
D
late in asking
D A
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled
D
it away