Paradise

Paradise
(low range)

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When I was a child my fam-ily would tra-vel

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Down to West-ern Ken-tuc-ky where my par-ents were born

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And there's a back-ward old town that's oft-en re-mem-bered

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So man-y times that my mem'-ries are worn.

Chorus (Repeat after each verse)

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And dad-dy, won't you take me back to Muh-len-berg Coun-ty

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Down by the Green Ri-ver where Par-a-dise lay

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Well, I'm sor-ry my son, but your too late in as-kin'

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Mist-er Pea-bo-dy's train has hauled it a-way.

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Verse 2

Well, some-times we'd trav-el right down the Green Riv-er

To the a-band-oned old pri-son down by A-drie Hill

Where the air smel-led like snakes and we'd shoot with our pis-tols

But emp-ty pop bot-tles was all we would kill.

Verse 3

The coal com-pany came with the world's larg-est sho-vel

And they tort-ured the tim-ber and stripped all the land

Well, they dug for the coal 'till the land was for-saken

Then they wrote it all down as the pro-gress of man

Verse 4

When I die let my ash-es float down the Green Ri-ver

Let my soul roll on up to the Ro-chest-er Dam

I'll be hal-fway to hea-ven with Para-dise wait-ing

Just five miles a-way from where ever I am.

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Paradise
(high range)

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