[00:00.199]When I was a child my family would travel
[00:04.207]Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
[00:08.208]And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
[00:13.706]So many times that my memories are worn.
[00:17.712]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[00:22.453]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[00:26.709]Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
[00:32.712]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[00:37.702]
[00:41.946]Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
[00:45.208]To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
[00:50.702]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
[00:55.960]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
[01:00.951]
[01:01.950]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[01:05.711]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[01:09.949]Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
[01:15.706]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[01:20.461]
[01:22.199]Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
[01:47.449]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
[01:51.701]Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
[01:57.203]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
[02:01.200]
[02:01.951]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[02:06.220]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[02:10.206]Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
[02:15.952]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[02:21.215]
[02:27.459]When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
[02:31.207]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
[02:35.452]I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
[02:40.948]Just five miles away from wherever I am.
[02:45.199]
[02:45.952]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[02:49.957]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[02:53.697]Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
[02:59.699]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away