Paradise Chords by John Prine

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_ _ _ When I was a [G] child, my family [D] would travel down to western [A] Kentucky where my [D] parents were born.
There's a backwards old town [G] that's often [D] remembered, so many [A] times that my memories [D] are worn. _ _ _
_ Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where [D] Pyrrha dies away? _
Well, I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train [A] has hauled [D] it away. _ _ _ _
_ Well sometimes we [G] travel right down the [D] Green River to the abandoned old prison [A] down [D] by
the Adry Hill, _ where the air smells like snakes [G] and we [D] shoot with our pistols, but empty pop
bottles are what we all have to kill. _ _ _ _
_ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where [D] Pyrrha dies away?
Well, I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away.
Come on, pick one out there, kid. _
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then the coal company came [G] with the rustle [D] of the shovel.
They tortured the timber [A] and they stripped [D] all the land. _
They dug for the [G] coal till the [D] land was forsaken.
And then they wrote it all down [A] as the [D] progress they made. _ _
_ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where [D] Pyrrha dies away?
Well, I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled [D] it away.
How about it, fam?
Yeah! _
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_ _ when the diamond mashes [G] float down the [D] Green River, I'll let my soul roll on [A] up
to the [D] Rochester Dam.
I'll be halfway to heaven [G] with paradise [D] waiting, just five miles away from [A] wherever [D] I am. _ _
_ _ Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D]
Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where [D] Pyrrha dies away?
Well, I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train [A] has [D] hauled it away. _ _
_ _ _ Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away.
_ _ _ _ Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it _ [D] away.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Thank you very much for coming out tonight.
_ We appreciate it. _ _
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_ Thanks to Karen Kane, _ _ _ Kevin Welch, _ _ Fats Kaplan. _ _
_ _ Hey Jason, why don't you take us home?
Sure.
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_ _ _ _ _ Thank you very much.
[G] Thank you very much.
Good night and God bless you.
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