Chords for Paradise - John Prine 1980 (stereo)

[N] _ _ Yeah, I got so I guess [Abm] I I used to walk up and [F] down the street so many times
There's [Ab] nothing else to do.
[Db] You know if I was that that ends [G] the street.
I always think something was going on down there because
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There [Ab] wasn't nothing going up at that
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Howdy friends and good evening neighbors, this is Randy Blake
_ [Bb] _ _ suppertime frolic from _ [Abm] _ WJJB
[B] For the next two hours you're going to [Ebm] hear your favorite _ [B] country and Western singers
_ And I have some wonderful news for all you listeners
And I remember that show they were Randy Blake's that to our products _ _ [Db] _ my daddy's put the [A] radio out here and said here at a quarter beer
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Is that house I grew up [F] in?
[Bm] located on _
_ _ [Eb] Maywood's busiest [B] street right here in Maywood, Illinois _ _ _ _ _
God, it's been about 20 [Bb] years here.
I [A] guess my [B] first 20 years in my life
[Am] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [Eb] We sit up here and listen [B] to that [Ab] radio though.
[B] I guess that's [A] how I got started [Gb] with
[B] _ But I guess with the [Am] music I make you know I mean
I don't know [Bm]
what kind of music I [Ab] played if I never listened to the radio
And [G] we played country music most of them.
They played a lot of rock [Ebm] and roll and _ [G] JJB _
_ [E] Rockabilly Rockabilly _ _ _ _
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Johnny Johnny Cash [C] I was figuring my music come from somewhere between
_ _ what come across [B] the radio and
_ [Ab] Somewhere between [Gb] here in Kentucky couldn't come from Kentucky because I wasn't from it
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_ _ _ _ _ _ We'd go down [G] there as often as we could [B] until the town got tore down
_ _ _ _ Mr.
Peabody
_ _ _ You know [Bb] that song
[Dbm] _ _ [Bb] You'll have to sing it 19 [Bm] times a week
_ Three chords song right yeah
[D] Well, we sing that song
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By the way, this is John Burns [Dm] John plays guitar with me _
[A] Number one [D] partner in crime we're bound to [G] become stars someday or else we're gonna go to jail
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But [A] with all the rules [D] set
And when he moves he takes me back [G] to the hill of [D] Birdtown
Down by the river where the [A] dead [D] guys lay
Oh I'm sorry my son, this is [G] too late and [D] fast
This could be not his fault, I ain't never [A] ought to [D] do it
That's my woman _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ Then the cold comes and takes it
With [G] the world's lights [D] shut it
And the poor sirs come and they [A] keep their own [Bm] land
The ducks [D] go to cold, the [G] land was full [D] of sand
And they wrote it all down [A] as a progress [D] man
And when he moves he takes me back [G] to the hill of Birdtown
[D] _ Down by the river where the [A] dead [D] guys lay
_ Oh I'm sorry my son, this is [G] too late and [D] fast
This could be not his fault, I ain't [A] never ought to do it
[Bm] _ When _ _ _ _ _ I [D] die let my ashes float [G] down to Green [D] River
Let my soul on earth be [A] what I just [D] am
I'll be halfway to heaven, through [G] the paradise [D] way
Just stop now to reach home, [A] wherever I [D] am
And then he moves he takes me back [G] to the hill of [D] Birdtown
Down by the river where the [A] dead [D] guys lay
_ Oh I'm sorry my son, this is [G] too late [D] and fast
This could be not his fault, I ain't [A] never ought to do it
[D] _ _ _ This could be not his fault, I ain't [A] never ought to do [D] it _
_ This could be not his fault, I ain't [A] never ought to do [D] _
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