Jackie DeShannon - Paradise lyrics
[Jackie DeShannon - Paradise lyrics]
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where
My parents were born
There's a backwards old town
That's often remembered
So many times that my mem'ries are worn
And, Daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
"Well, I'm sorry, my dear
But you're too late in askin'
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
The coal company came with
The world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber and
Stripped all the land
They dug for their coal 'til
The land was forsaken
And wrote it all down as the progress of Man
And, Daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
"Well, I'm sorry, my dear
But you're too late in askin'
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'
I'm five miles away from wherever I am
And, Daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
"Well, I'm sorry, my dear
But you're too late in askin'
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'
Down to Western Kentucky where
My parents were born
There's a backwards old town
That's often remembered
So many times that my mem'ries are worn
And, Daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
"Well, I'm sorry, my dear
But you're too late in askin'
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away"
The coal company came with
The world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber and
Stripped all the land
They dug for their coal 'til
The land was forsaken
And wrote it all down as the progress of Man
And, Daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
"Well, I'm sorry, my dear
But you're too late in askin'
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'
I'm five miles away from wherever I am
And, Daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
"Well, I'm sorry, my dear
But you're too late in askin'
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'