Dwight Yoakam - Paradise lyrics
[Dwight Yoakam - Paradise lyrics]
When I was a boy my family would travel
Inta' Western Kentucky where my
Parents were born to a lost little town
There thats often remembered
So many times that my memory drew warn
And daddy won't ya 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
An' we'd shoot off pistols
Ahh but empty pop bottles is
All we would kill and daddy won't ya 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
Welll the coal compny' 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 ya 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
Ohhh and daddy won't ya 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 thats often remembered
So many times that my memory drew warn
And daddy won't ya 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
An' we'd shoot off pistols
Ahh but empty pop bottles is
All we would kill and daddy won't ya 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
Welll the coal compny' 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 ya 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
Ohhh and daddy won't ya 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