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Verse 1
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When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky
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where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town
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that's often remembered
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So many times that my memories are worn
Chorus 1
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And daddy, won't you take me
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back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River
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where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has
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hauled it away
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Verse 2
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Well, sometimes we'd travel right down
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the Green River
To the abandoned old prison
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down by Airdrie Hill
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
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And daddy, won't you take me
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back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River
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where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has
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hauled it away
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Then the coal company came
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with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
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and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal
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'til the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down
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as the progress of man
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And daddy, won't you take me
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back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River
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where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has
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hauled it away
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Verse 4
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When I die let my ashes
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float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up
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to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven
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with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away
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from wherever I am
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And daddy, won't you take me
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back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River
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where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has
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hauled it away
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