Paradise Lyrics - Personal File - Johnny Cash

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 

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away 

When I was a child, my family would travel 

Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born 

To a backwards old town that I've often remembered 

So many times that my mem'ries are worn 

And sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River 

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrian's Hill 

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols 

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill 

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So 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 

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away 

And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel 

They stripped all the timber and tortured the land 

they dug for the coal till the land was forsaken 

Then they wrote it all down to the progress of man 

Oh 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 

Mister Peabody's coal train done 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' 

Five miles away from where ever I am 

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Oh 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 

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away