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Subject: "Paradise" by John Prine
Song: Paradise
Artist: John Prine
Album: John Prine
a three-chord special and all the same progression but
nice lyrics
Verse 1:
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
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
A D
So many times that the memory is worn
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
Verse 2:
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Avery Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles is all we would kill
Chorus
Verse 3:
Then the coal company came with the world's biggest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well they dug out their coal til the land was forsaken
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man
Chorus
Verse 4:
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be half way to heaven with Paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Chorus
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