Lyrics

When I was a child my family would travel
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Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
G D
And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered
A7 D
So many times that my memories are worn

CHORUS
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And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County
A7 D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
G D
Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in asking
A7 D
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away


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Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river
A7 D
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
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D
Where the air smelt like snakes that we'd shoot with our pistols
A7 D
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

REPEAT CHORUS
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D
Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel
A7 D
And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land
G D
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
A7 D
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man


REPEAT CHORUS
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When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River
A7 D
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
G D
I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting
A7 D
Just five miles away from wherever I am