Paradise Chords by John Prine
- Key: D
- BPM: 162
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
PARADISE CHORDS
[Start] [Chorus] D G D When I was a child my family would travel A D Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born G D And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered A D So many times that my memories are worn G D And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A D Down by the Green River where paradise lay G D Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking A D Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [Verse] G D Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River A D To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill G D Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols A D But empty pop bottles was all we would kill [Chorus] G D And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A D Down by the green river where paradise lay G D Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking A D Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away [Solo] G D A D G D A D ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G D Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel A D And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land G D Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken D Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man [Chorus] G D And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A D Down by the Green River where paradise lay G D Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking D Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away G D When I die let my ashes float down the Green River A D Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam G D I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin' D Just five miles away from wherever I am G D And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County D Down by the green river where paradise lay G D Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking A D Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away ■ [End]