Lynn Anderson - Paradise lyrics

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where
My parents were born
And 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 child but
You're too late in askin'
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we traveled right
Down the Green River
By the abandoned old prison
Down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and
We'd shoot with the pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy won't you take me back

Then the coal company came with
The world's largest shovels
They tortured the timber and they
Stripped all the land
Well they dug for the coal
Till the land was forsaken
Then we wrote it all down
As the progress of man
And daddy won't you take me back
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away