Dwight Yoakam "Paradise" |
When I was a boy, my family would travel Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born To a lost little town there that's all but remembered So many times that my memories are worn. Chorus: And, �Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?� He said, �I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.� Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River To the abandoned old prison down by Aidrie Hill Where the air smelled like snakes & we'd shoot our pistols Ooh, but empty pop bottles is all we would kill. Chorus: And, �Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?� He said, �I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.� Well, the coal company came with the, world's largest shovel, They tortured the timber and stripped all the land Lord, they dug for their coal �til the ground was forsaken And wrote it all down as the, �Progress of man.� Chorus: And, �Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?� He said, �I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train has 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' Just 5 miles away from wherever I am... Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |