Chords for John Prine - Paradise

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_ _ Howdy friends and good evening neighbors, this is Randy Blake on the suppertime [N] frolic from WJJD
For the [G#m] next two hours, you're going to hear [F#] your favorite country and Western [B] singers
And I have [F#] some wonderful news for all you listeners and [B] I'll remember that [E] show with Randy Blake
So do I rock [C#] _ [E] my dad [B] just put the radio out here and sit out here at a quart of beer
[G#] Is [E] that house I grew up in?
located [C#] on
[G] Maywood's busiest street right [C#] here in Maywood, Illinois
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Okay, gosh, but let's spend 20 years there.
[B] I guess my first 20 years [C] my life
_ [B] _ We sit up here and listen to that radio though.
I guess [F#] that's how I got started with
But [G] I guess with the music I make you know, I mean, I don't know
What kind of music I played if I never listened to [B] the radio [C#] and we played country music most of time
They played a lot of rock and roll in on JJD
_ _ [E] Rockabilly rockabilly [B] Elvis
_ [B] Johnny _ Johnny Cash, I was figuring my music come from somewhere between
what come across the radio and
Somewhere between here in Kentucky couldn't come [E] from Kentucky because I wasn't from it
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_ We used to go down there as often as [G] we could and so
[B] Yeah, I got tore down _ _
Mr.
Peabody
_ [G] You know that song _
You'll have to sing it 19 times a week
[Bm] When I'm three chords song, [A] right?
Yeah
[D] Well, we sing that song _
[B] By the way, this is John Byrne John plays guitar with me
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[D] number one partner in crime
We're bound to become stars someday or else we're gonna go to jail
Come back to me would well
When I _ _ _ _ _ _ was child
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_ [A] _ [D] _ Oh
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_ _ Well sometimes we travel [G] right down the green [D] river
To the abandoned old [A] prison down [D] by Acre Hill
Well the air smell like snakes [G] and we shake with our [D] drips
But every five dollars [A] was [D] all we was getting
And then he won't take me [G] back to [D] Newburgh town
Down by the middle of the river [A] to a [D] paradise place
Well I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late in that
Mississippi night is [A] cold, can't get a holiday [D] in the rain
Well the _ _ [G] _ [Bm] _ _ _
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_ _ _ cold comes and takes us, [G] with the world's last [D] shelter
From Portland to [A] Cumberland, and it gets all [D] night
The dust moves cold, [G] till the land is still [D] safe
And it holds it all down, [A] and the progress [D] remains
And then he won't take [G] me back to [D] Newburgh town
Down by the middle of [A] the river to a paradise [D] place
Well I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in that
Mississippi night is [Bm] cold, [A] can't get a [D] holiday in the rain
_ _ Well the dazzling ashes [G] float down the [D] green river
From a soul on [A] earth to a [D] just bone
I'll be halfway to heaven, [G] to a paradise [D] place
Just five miles away [A] from wherever [D] I am
And then he won't [G] take me back to [D] Newburgh [Bm] town
[D] Down by the middle [A] of the river to a paradise [D] place
Well I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too late [D] in that
Mississippi night is cold, [A] can't get a [D] holiday in the rain _
Mississippi night is [A] cold, can't get a holiday [D] in the rain
_ Mississippi night is cold, [A] can't get a holiday [D] in the rain _ _
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