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Paradise Lyrics

Artist: John Denver
Album: Rocky Mountain High

This song was first released on the Rocky Mountain High album. It is the only album it has been released on.

When I was a child, my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my mem'ries are worn

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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

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

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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 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

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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 Muhlenberg 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

Words and music by John Prine

Comments/Interpretations
by MadeinParadise on 7/3/2008 6:21pm This song was not wrote by John Denver. It was wrote by John Prine. Do your research
by KingsEnglish on 9/22/2008 10:10pm Wrote??
by Charles Edward Sumner on 12/9/2008 12:39am My dad was born in Mulenburg County. I remember going down to the green river when I was young(late 5o's-early 60's.
by ziggy on 6/2/2009 8:05pm This is the first song I learned all the words to as a child by JD. What a great folk song! Not enough credit is given to this song....All songs sung by John Denver are Master Pieces!!!

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