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Verse 1
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D
I was a child,
my family would travel down to western
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Kentucky where my parents
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were born
There's a backwards old town
that's often remembered
So many times that
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D
my memories are worn
Dad, won't you take me back to
G
Muhlenberg
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County
Down by the
Green
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River where paradise lay
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He said, I'm sorry, my son,
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D
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd
Green
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River
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To the abandoned old prison down by
Avery
Hill
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Where the air smelled like snakes,
G
D
we'd shoot with our pistols
And empty pop bottles
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D
was all we would kill
Dad, won't you take me back to
G
Muhlenberg
D
County
Down by the
Green
A
D
River where paradise reigns
I said, I'm sorry, my son,
G
D
but you're too late in asking
Mr.
A
Peabody's coal train has hauled it
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G
D
away
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D
G
D
A
D
When the coal company came with
the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber
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D
and stripped all the land
He dug for the coal until
the land was forsaken
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D
He wrote it all down as a progress man
Dad won't you take me back to
G
Muhlenberg
D
County
Down by the green river
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D
where paradise was laid
I said I'm sorry my son
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To be my ice -cold train
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D
that's hauled in a wave
When I die, my ashes float
Bm
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down the green river
Let my soul roll on up to the
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D
Rochester dam
And I'll be halfway to heaven,
G
D
but paradise is waiting
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D
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Dad, won't you take me back to
G
Muhlenberg
D
County
Down by the green river
A
D
where paradise will lay
I said, I'm sorry my son,
G
D
but you're too late in asking
Mr.
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D
Peabody's gold train has hauled it away
How dare won't you take
me back to
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Newtonburg
D
County
Down by the
Green
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D
River where paradise lays
Said I'm sorry my son,
G
D
but you're too late in asking
Mr.
A
Peabody's gold train has hauled
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G
D
it away
A
D
G
D
A
D
D
You
D
You
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