Sturgill Simpson - Paradise lyrics
[Sturgill Simpson - Paradise lyrics]
When I was a child my family would travel
In 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
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg county
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
I'm sorry my son but you're
Too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Sometimes we'd travel right down
The Green River to the abandoned old prison
Down by Airdriе Hill
Where the air smеlt like snakes
We'd shoot with our pistols
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?
I'm sorry my son but you're
Too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Then the coal company came with
The world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
Stripped all the land
Well they dug for their coal
'til the land was forsaken
And 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?
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
'N I'll be half way to heaven
With Paradise waiting
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?
I'm sorry my son but you're
Too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
In 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
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg county
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
I'm sorry my son but you're
Too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Sometimes we'd travel right down
The Green River to the abandoned old prison
Down by Airdriе Hill
Where the air smеlt like snakes
We'd shoot with our pistols
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?
I'm sorry my son but you're
Too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Then the coal company came with
The world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
Stripped all the land
Well they dug for their coal
'til the land was forsaken
And 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?
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
'N I'll be half way to heaven
With Paradise waiting
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?
I'm sorry my son but you're
Too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away