John Fogerty - Paradise lyrics
rate meWhen 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 />
<br />
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 />
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 />
<br />
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 />
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 />
<br />
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 />
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 />
<br />
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 />
