Paradise Chords by John Prine

When I was a child my [G] family [D] would travel
Down to western Kentucky [A] where my parents [D] were born _
_ And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
_ So many times [A] that my memories [D] are worn
And Daddy won't you take me [G] back to _ [D] Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where [A] _ [D] paradise lay
_ Well I'm sorry my son [G] but you're too [D] late in asking
_ _ Mr.
_ Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it [D] away _ _
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Well _ sometimes we'd travel [G] right [D] down the Green River
_ _ To the abandoned old prison [A] down by [D] Avery Hill _ _ _
Where the air smelled like snakes and [G] we'd shoot [D] with our pistols _
But _ empty pop bottles [A] was all [N] we would till
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