Paradise - Jim and Jesse McReynolds - High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music Chords

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[Fm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
When I was a child [Bb] my family was [F] traveling down to western Kentucky where my [F] parents were born.
_ There's a backwoods old [Bb] town that's often [F] remembered so many [C] times that my memories [F] are worn.
_ _ And Daddy won't you take me [Bb] back to Muttenburg County down by the Green River [C] where paradise [F] lay.
_ Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's cold brain [C] has hauled it [F] away.
_ _ _ Sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River through the abandoned old prison down [C] by Avery [Bb] Hill.
_ [F] Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistol but empty pump bottles was all we would kill.
[Bb] _ _ [F] And Daddy won't you take me back to Muttenburg County down by the Green River where paradise [Bb] lay.
_ [F] Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late [F] in asking Mr.
Peabody's cold brain has hauled it away.
_ [Bb] _ And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel.
They tortured the timber [C] and stripped all the [F] land.
_ [F] _ They dug for their [Bb] coal till the land was [F] forsaken and wrote it all down as the [C] promise of [Bb] man.
_ [F] _ And Daddy won't you take me [Bb] back to Muttenburg [F] County down by the Green River [C] where paradise [Bb] lay.
_ [F] Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's cold brain [C] has hauled it away.
[Bb] _ _ [F] And Daddy won't you take me [Eb] back to [Bb] Muttenburg County down by the Green River where [Bb] paradise lay.
_ Well I'm sorry my son [Eb] but you're too late in asking Mr.
Peabody's cold [F] brain has hauled it away. _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ Mr.
Peabody's cold brain has hauled it away.
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