John Fogerty

John Fogerty - Paradise lyrics

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When I was a child my family would travel<br />

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born<br />

There's a backwards old town that's often remembered<br />

So many times that my memories are worn<br />

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And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County<br />

Down by the green river where paradise lay?<br />

Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking<br />

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away<br />

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Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the green river<br />

To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill<br />

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols<br />

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill<br />

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And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County<br />

Down by the green river where paradise lay?<br />

Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking<br />

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away<br />

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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel<br />

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land<br />

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken<br />

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man<br />

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And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County<br />

Down by the green river where paradise lay?<br />

Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking<br />

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away<br />

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When I die let my ashes float down the green river<br />

Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam<br />

I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting<br />

Just five miles away from wherever I am<br />

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And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County<br />

Down by the green river where paradise lay?<br />

Well, I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking<br />

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away<br /><br />

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