Paradise Songtext
von The Seldom Scene

When I was a child, my family would travel
To western Kentucky where my parents were born
It′s a backwoods old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn

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 askin′
Mr. Peabody′s coal train has hauled it away

Sometimes we traveled right down the Green River
To the Bandit Hole Prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes that been chewed with old pistols
And empty pop bottles with all that we'd kill


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 askin'
Mr. Peabody′s coal train has hauled it away

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber, they stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as 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 askin′
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
I′ll be halfway to Heaven, Paradise is waitin'
Five miles away from wherever I am


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 askin′
Mr. Peabody′s coal train has hauled it away