Chords for John Prine Paradise

[D] Thank you.
We're gonna do a song I wrote some years ago for my father Bill Fry.
Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County? _
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_ _ _ When I was a child, [G] my family [D] would travel
Down to western Kentucky [A] where my parents were [D] born
_ There's a backwards old [G] town that's often [D] remembered
So many times that my memories are worn _
Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County?
Down by the green river [A] where [D] paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mr.
Peabody's cold train has hauled it away
Well, _ _ _ sometimes we'd travel [Gm] right [D] down the green river
To the abandoned old prison [A] down [D] by Avery Hill
Well, the air smelled like snakes [G] and we'd shoot [D] without pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would get
_ Daddy, won't you take me back to [D] 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 cold train has hauled it away _
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[D] _ _ _ _ Well, then the cold company came with [G] the world's [D] largest shuttle
Well, they tortured the tender and [A] stripped [D] all the lame
They dug for the coal, [G] the land was [D] forsaken
And then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
_ Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County?
Down by the green river [A] where [D] paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mr.
Peabody's cold train has hauled it away _ _
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Well, I'm dialing my ashes [G] floating down [D] the green river
Let my soul roll on up [A] to the [D] Rochester band
I'll be halfway to heaven [G] where paradise [D] waits
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 where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mr.
Peabody's cold train has hauled it away _
Mr.
Peabody's cold train has hauled it away
_ Mr.
Peabody's cold train has hauled it _ away _
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