Paradise

Daddy won't you take me

Back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River

Where Paradise lay

I'm sorry my son

But you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train

Done hauled it away

When I was a child

My family would travel

Down to western Kentucky where

My parents were born

To a backwards old town

That I've often remembered

So many times that my mem'ries are worn

And sometimes we'd travel right

Down the Green River

To the abandoned old prison

Down by Adrian's Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes

And we'd shoot with our pistols

But empty pop bottles

Was all we would kill

So daddy won't you take me

Back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green

River where Paradise lay

I'm sorry my son

But you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal

Train done hauled it away

And the coal company came

With the world's largest shovel

They stripped all the timber

And tortured the land

They dug for the coal till the

Land was forsaken

Then they wrote it all down

To the progress of man

Oh daddy won't you take me

Back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River

Where Paradise lay

I'm sorry my son

But you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train

Done hauled it away

When I die let my ashes float

Down the Green River

Let my soul roll on up to

The Rochester Dam

I'll be halfway to Heaven

With Paradise waitin'

Five miles away from

Where ever I am

Oh daddy won't you take me

Back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green

River where Paradise lay

I'm sorry my son

But you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train

Done hauled it away