Chords for Jim & Jesse - 1976 - Paradise

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F

Bb

C

Eb

Ab

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Jim & Jesse - 1976 - Paradise chords
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[Bb] And this is one that we get a lot of requests for anymore,
[G] especially on our shows and around the festivals.
One [F] entitled Paradise.
[Eb]
[Bb] [F]
[Bb] [F]
When I was a child, [Bb] my [F] family would travel
down to western Kentucky [C] where my [F] parents were born.
[Bb] [F] There's a backwards old [Bb] town that's [F] often remembered
so many times [C] that my [F] memories are worn.
[Bb] [F]
And Daddy, won't you take me [Bb] back to [F] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green River [C] where [F] paradise lay?
[Bb] [F] Well, I'm sorry my son, [Bb] but you're [F] too late in asking.
He bought his boat [C] train and [F] hauled it away.
[Bb] [F]
Well, sometimes we'd travel [Bb] right down [F] the Green River
through the band of prison [C] down [F] by Avery Hill
[Bb] [F] where there's mail like snakes [Bb] and ships [F] with their pistols
but empty pop bottles [C] was [F] all you would kill.
[Bb] [F]
And Daddy, won't [Fm] you take me [Bb] back to [F] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green River [C] where [F] paradise lay?
[Bb] [F] Well, I'm sorry my son, [Bb] but you're too [F] late in asking.
He bought his boat train [C] and [F] hauled it [Bb] away.
[F]
Then the coal [Bb] company came with a wolf [F]-like disheveled
that tortured the timber [C] and stripped [F] all the [Bb] land.
[F] Well, the dog-father [Bb] called while the land [F] was forsaken
and wrote it all down [C] as the [F] funders song.
[Bb] [F]
And Daddy, won't [Bb] you take me back to [F] Muhlenberg County
down by the [C] Green River where [F] paradise lay?
[Bb] [F] Well, I'm sorry my [Bb] son, but you're [F] too late in asking.
He bought his boat [C] train and [F] hauled it away.
[Bb] [F]
[Bb] And Daddy, won't you take me [Eb] back to [Bb] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green [F] River where [Bb] paradise lay?
Well, I'm sorry my [Eb] son, but you're too [Bb] late in asking.
He bought his boat train and hauled it [Ab] away.
[Eb]
[Bb] He bought his boat train and hauled it away.
[Ab] [Eb] [Bb]
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[Bb] And this is one that we get a lot of requests for anymore,
[G] especially on our shows and around the festivals.
One [F] entitled Paradise.
[Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _
When I was a child, [Bb] my [F] family would travel
down to western Kentucky [C] where my [F] parents were born.
[Bb] _ [F] _ There's a backwards old [Bb] town that's [F] often remembered
so many times [C] that my [F] memories are worn.
[Bb] _ [F] _
And Daddy, won't you take me [Bb] back to [F] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green River [C] where [F] paradise lay?
[Bb] _ [F] _ Well, I'm sorry my son, [Bb] but you're [F] too late in asking.
He bought his boat [C] train and [F] hauled it away.
[Bb] _ [F] _
Well, sometimes we'd travel [Bb] right down [F] the Green River
through the band of prison [C] down [F] by Avery Hill
[Bb] _ [F] _ where there's mail like snakes [Bb] and ships [F] with their pistols
but empty pop bottles [C] was [F] all you would kill.
[Bb] _ [F] _
And Daddy, won't [Fm] you take me [Bb] back to [F] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green River [C] where [F] paradise lay?
[Bb] _ [F] _ Well, I'm sorry my son, [Bb] but you're too [F] late in asking.
He bought his boat train [C] and [F] hauled it [Bb] away.
_ [F] _
Then the coal [Bb] company came with a wolf [F]-like disheveled
that tortured the timber [C] and stripped [F] all the [Bb] land.
_ [F] _ Well, the dog-father [Bb] called while the land [F] was forsaken
and wrote it all down [C] as the [F] funders song.
_ [Bb] _ [F] _
And Daddy, won't [Bb] you take me back to [F] Muhlenberg County
down by the [C] Green River where [F] paradise lay?
[Bb] _ [F] _ Well, I'm sorry my [Bb] son, but you're [F] too late in asking.
He bought his boat [C] train and [F] hauled it away.
[Bb] _ [F] _
[Bb] And Daddy, won't you take me [Eb] back to [Bb] Muhlenberg County
down by the Green [F] River where [Bb] paradise lay?
_ Well, I'm sorry my [Eb] son, but you're too [Bb] late in asking.
He bought his boat train and hauled it [Ab] away.
_ [Eb] _
[Bb] _ He bought his boat train and hauled it away.
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _

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