Chords for John Prine – "Paradise" with intro – 1973

[D] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bb] There's a song about a [A] small town in [Gb] Western, [C] Kentucky sits down Muehlenberg [E] County on Green River
[B] _ _ [F] Name the town was [Cm] paradise
Mother father were born and raised down [B] there
They got married [E] when I was about [Cm] 17 [Ebm] moved to Chicago some of my father gets [E] some work
[B] _ [E] They [C] raised me my brothers [B] up there, [Gbm] but they always kept [G] me to go back
To [Bb] paradise [G] it I kept calling it to [N] be home, you know and
[Eb] We end up spend a lot of time traveling back and forth [N] between the Chicago and paradise
Is it is a pretty little place?
_ There's only about like [G] 48 49 people [C] living there, you know one [N] time
_ _ [Ebm] They're all relative _
_ Then [F] we have a lot of else to do become [B] relatives
[N] _ _ _ I
Have fun down there
Then my cousin used to go to this place is about half a mile down the river from paradise.
There's this old
abandoned Civil War prison and
Abandoned [C] some civil war in our we used [Gb] to just walk there
_ We use our [C] imagination to kill each other about thousand times a day
[Gbm] _
_ [Ebm] Oh
We made a mistake of telling [N] us one and of ours we've been playing by the prison
_ So when [Ab] she found out we were playing up there.
She said
[A] say you boys
[N] Shouldn't go up on a tree hill
[Ebm] Adri Hill just crawling with snakes.
There's snakes all over that [Eb] place _
If you ever
_ Go back [N] up there again.
Take a pistol with you
[Ebm] And if you smell anything, it smells like _ _
Cucumbers start [D] shooting
_ [A] _ [D] We're pretty scared we _ _ [A] _ stayed [E] away from there for about a [Gbm] week
_ _ Our curiosity got us so _
We went on back up [D] there it's _ about a [C] 20 minute [Bm] ride by [Em] boat to get [D] there and _
We [C] didn't talk to [D] each other hardly at all going up there isn't that bad time we got up there everything smelled like cucumber
_ He might cut it
It _ hasn't got anything to do with the sorrow.
That's why I tell you that
_ _ _ About _ seven eight years ago
Peabody coal mining company moved in down the amber
They bought up all land in paradise and tore the town down.
They bought up quite a bit of land in the amber County
_ They stripped mine all _
_ _ _ _ _ When I was a [G] child my family [D] would travel down Western [A] Kentucky
_ [D] _ _ _ There's backwards old town
[Gm] _ [D] So many [A] times
Remember [D] is the war and daddy won't take [G] me back to mule and [D] bird
down by the green [A] well [D] nicely _
Well, I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too late [D] nasty _
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is all
[D] Well, _ _ _ _ _ sometimes we travel [Gm] right down the [D] green
Till you band an old prison [A] down by a [D] drill
Where the air smell like snakes [G] and we shoot with [D] our pistol
_ But empty pop bottles [A] with all we [D] would kill and daddy won't you take me [G] back to me [D] and bird
down by the green [A] Wow
_ [D] Well, I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late nasty
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is all
[D] _ _
_ _ _ And the coal come came [G]
with the world's [D] largest shovel and tortured the timber [A] and [D] stripped all away
_ Well duck further coal [G] till land was [D] forsaken and they wrote it all [A] down
As a progress [D] man and daddy won't take [G] me back to me and [D] bird
down by the green [A] Wow
[D] _ Nicely
Well, I'm sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late nasty
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train is all
[D] And _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ when I die let my ashes [G] float down the [D] green road let my soul roll on [A] up to [D] Rochester
_ I'll be halfway to heaven [G] with [D] paradise waiting just five miles away [A] from
[D] I am and daddy won't take me [G] back to me [D] and bird down down by the green [A] Wow
_ [D] Well, _ sorry my [G] son, but you're too [D] late nasty
Mr.
Peabody's coal train [A] is all [D] away
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