Paradise Lyrics - John Denver

This song was first released on the Rocky Mountain High album. It is the only album it has been released on. 

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 son, but you're too late in asking 

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 

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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 

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 

And 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 

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 

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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 

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 

Words and music by John Prine