Song Lyrics Unknown - Paradise Muhlenberg County    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Paradise Muhlenberg County Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Paradise Muhlenberg County Theme ID: 5119 Album: N/A PARADISE (Muhlenberg County) (G) G - C G / G C G C7 G / G - C G / G C G D7 G When I was a child, my family would travel Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born And there's a backwoods old town that's often remembered So many times that my memories are worn And daddy, won't you take be back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green river where Paradise lay Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green river To the abandoned old prison down by Adrien hill. Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. CHORUS Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their coal 'till the land was forsaken Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. CHORUS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Words and music by John Prine, copyright 1971 Walden Music, Inc. and Sour Grapes Music, all rights reserved. Recorded on his first album, Voices from the Mountains Paradise is - or was - an actual town in Eastern Kentucky before the area was completely demolished by the Peabody Coal Company's stripping operations. @mine filename[ PARADVAL DC ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Pay Day At Coal Creek, Pay Me My Money Down, Pay Me The Money Down, Peach Picking Time Down In Georgia, Peel Me A Grape, Peeler And The Goat, Peg And Awl, Peg O Ramsay, Peggy Gordon, Pele Is My Goddess, Penny Evans, Peoples Song Song, Percys Song, Perennial Beginner Fchord Song, Perfect Day, Perfect Husband, Perfect Woman, Persian Kitty, Peter Emberly, Peter Street, Philadelphia Lawyer, Philippines Anthem Text, Philippines Native Anthem Text, Philippinitis, Photographers Ballad, Piano Leg, Pickle Carol, Pickled Jew, Pig And The Inebriate, Pig And The Inebriate Long Version, Pill, Pilots Lament, Pinery Boy, Piney Wood Hills, Pink Pajamas, Piper Of Dundee, Pity The Downtrodden Landlord, Plaisir Damour, Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus 2, Play Me, Pleasant And Delightful, Pleasant And Delightful Seattle, Please To See The King, Pleasure And Pain, Poland Native Anthem Text, Polly Oliver, Polly On The Shore, Polly Vaughn, Polly Vaugn, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy