Paradise
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 When I was a boy 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 my memories are worn * Refrain Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River To the avandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill Where the air smelled like anakes and we'd shoot with our postols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill * Refrain Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel They tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their coal til the land was forsaken Then they wote it all down as the progress of man * Refrain When I die let my ashes float down the Green River Let my soul roll on up to the Rocjester Dam I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise Waiting Just five miles away from wherever I am * Refrain