Paradise Songtext
von The Waybacks

When I was a child my family would travel
Into Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there′s a backwards 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 asking
Mister Peabody′s coal train done hauled it away

Sometimes we′d travel right down the Green River
To 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 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 asking
Mister Peabody′s coal train done hauled it away


Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
Well they dug for the coal until 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 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 waiting
Just 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 asking
Mister Peabody′s coal train done hauled it away

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


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