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When I was a child my family would travel,
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down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
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And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered,
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so many times that my memories are worn.
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
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down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River,
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to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
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Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols,
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but empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
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down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,
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and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
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Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken,
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then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
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down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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When I die let my ashes float down the Green River,
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let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
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I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin',
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just five miles away from wherever I am.
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,
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down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
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Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
