Dwight Yoakam - I Said (Paradise Reprise) lyrics
[Dwight Yoakam - I Said Paradise Reprise lyrics]
When I was a boy my family would travel
Inta' Western Kentucky where my
Parents were born to a lost little town
There that's often remembered
So many times that my memory drew warn
And daddy won't me take me
Back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where Paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal trains hauled it away"
Well, sometimes we travel right
Down the green river
To the abandoned old prison
Down by Gadry Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
We'd shoot off pistols
Ahh, but empty pop bottles is
All we would kill and daddy won't me take me
Back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal train has hauled it away"
Well, the coal company came with
The worlds largest shovel
They tortured the timber and stripped
All of the land
Lord, they dug for their coal
'til the ground was forsaken
Then wrote it all down as
A the 'Progress Of Man'
So daddy won't you take me
Back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where Paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal trains 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
Ohh, and daddy won't you take
Me back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where Paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal train has hauled it away"
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys coal train has hauled it away
Oh, Mr peabodys' coal train
Has hauled it away"
Inta' Western Kentucky where my
Parents were born to a lost little town
There that's often remembered
So many times that my memory drew warn
And daddy won't me take me
Back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where Paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal trains hauled it away"
Well, sometimes we travel right
Down the green river
To the abandoned old prison
Down by Gadry Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes
We'd shoot off pistols
Ahh, but empty pop bottles is
All we would kill and daddy won't me take me
Back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal train has hauled it away"
Well, the coal company came with
The worlds largest shovel
They tortured the timber and stripped
All of the land
Lord, they dug for their coal
'til the ground was forsaken
Then wrote it all down as
A the 'Progress Of Man'
So daddy won't you take me
Back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where Paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal trains 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
Ohh, and daddy won't you take
Me back to Mulingburg County
Down by the green river where Paradise lay
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys' coal train has hauled it away"
He said
"I'm sorry my son but yer too late in askin'
Mr peabodys coal train has hauled it away
Oh, Mr peabodys' coal train
Has hauled it away"