John Fogerty - Paradise lyrics
[John Fogerty - 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 memories 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 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 Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and
We'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry, my son
But you're too late in asking
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Hey!
Then the coal company came with
The world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and
Stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal
Till the land was forsaken
Then they 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 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 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 son
But you're too late in asking
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Down to Western Kentucky where
My parents were born
There's a backwards old town
That's often remembered
So many times that my memories 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 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 Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and
We'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy
Won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry, my son
But you're too late in asking
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Hey!
Then the coal company came with
The world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and
Stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal
Till the land was forsaken
Then they 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 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 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 son
But you're too late in asking
Mr peabody's coal train has hauled it away