Tonart: A major
Verse 1
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When I was a child my
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family would travel
Down to western Kentucky
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where my parents were born
To a backwards old town
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that's often remembered
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memories are worn
And Daddy wants to take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River
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where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
Just if anybody's coal train
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is hauled it away
Sometimes we'd travel
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right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison
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down by Avery Hill
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Where the air smelled like snakes
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and we'd shoot with our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And Daddy, won't you take me back
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Down by the Green River
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where paradise lays
I'm sorry my son,
but you're too late in asking
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Mr. Peabody's bull train has hauled
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it away
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Then the coal company came with
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the world's biggest shovel
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They tortured the timber
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and stripped all the land
They dug for the coal
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till the land was forsaken
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And they wrote it all down
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to the progress of man
And Daddy, won't you take me back
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Down by the Green River
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where paradise lays
I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train
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has hauled it away
When I die, my ashes float
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down the Green River
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
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I'll be five miles from heaven
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with paradise waiting
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Just a half mile away from wherever I am
And Daddy, won't you take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the green river
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where paradise lays
I'm sorry, my son,
but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal crane
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Mr. Peabody's coal crane
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has hauled it away
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