Chords for Joshua James - Paradise (John Prine) - Audiotree Live

[E] When I was a child, [A] my family [E] would travel to western Kentucky where my parents are from. _
_ _ And there's a backwards old town [A] that is often [E] remembered so many times [B] that my memory is [E] worn.
_ _ Daddy, won't you take [A] me back to Muehleberg [E] County, _ by the green river [B] where paradise [E] lay?
_ _ _ I'm sorry my son, [A] but you're too [E] late in asking Mr.
_ Peabody's coal train.
[B] He's all the [E] way. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Where sometimes we'd float [A] right down the [E] green river to an abandoned old prison [B] near _ [E] Adrian. _ _
_ _ Where the air smells like snakes, so [A] we'd shoot off [E] our pistols, but empty our bottles
[B] is all [E] we'd kill.
_ _ Daddy, won't you take me [A] back to _ [E] Muehleberg County, down by the green river [B] where paradise [E] lay? _ _
_ Well, I'm sorry my son, [A] but you're too late [E] in asking Mr.
_ Peabody's coal [B] train.
He's all [E] the way. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Well, [E] the coal company came [A] with the world's [E] largest shovel. _
They tortured the timbers [B] and they stripped [E] all the land. _ _ _
And then they dug for their coal [A] until the land [E] was forsaken.
They wrote it all down for [B] the progress [E] of man.
_ _ Daddy, won't you take me [A] back to [E] Muehleberg County, down by the green river [B] where paradise [E] lay?
_ _ _ Well, I'm sorry my son, [A] but you're too [E] late in asking _ _ _ Mr.
_ Peabody's coal [B] train.
He's all the [E] way.
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_ _ [E] _ I die, let my ashes [A] float down the [E] green river _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
and let my soul roll on up to the [B] _ [E] Rochester dam.
_ Cause _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'll be halfway to heaven, _ _ [A] _
paradise [E] _ _ waitin', _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ just five miles away from [B] wherever [E] I am.
_ Daddy, won't you take me [A] back to _ [E] Muehleberg County, down by the green [B] river where paradise [E] lay? _ _ _
Well, I'm sorry my son, [A] but you're too [E] late in asking _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mr.
_ Peabody's coal train.
[B] He's all the [E] way. _
Mr.
_ Peabody's coal train [B] just all the _ _ way. _
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