Chords for Kelsey Waldon, "Paradise," by John Prine // GemsOnVHS™

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I was a child my family would travel down to Western, Kentucky where my parents were born _
_ _ _ And there's a backers old town
So I'll be in them so many times and I'm in _ _ _ _
Sometimes _ _ _ we travel right down the green river to the abandoned old prison down by
_ Where _ _ _ _ the air smell like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols empty pop bottles was all we would care
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_ But _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm sorry my [E] son
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And then the coal come decay [E] with the [B] world's largest shovel and they tortured the timber and the stripped all the land
_ _ _ _ Well they dug through their coal till the land was gone _ _ _ _
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When I die let my ashes flow down the Green River let my soul roll on up to the Rochester
Well, _ _ _ _ I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise wait five miles away from where _ _ _ _ Daddy _
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_ _ _ I'm sorry, my son
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By his coal train is holding away
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By his coal train is holding away
the Mississippi by his coal train [F#] is _ [B] holding
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