Chords for Sturgill Simpson - Paradise (Official Audio)
Tempo:
93.35 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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When I was a child, [G] my family would [D] travel down to western Kentucky [A] where my parents were born.
There's a backwoods old town that's often [D] remembered, so many times that my [A] [D] memories are old.
Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where paradise [D] lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
Sometimes we'd travel [G] right down the [D] Green River to the abandoned old [A] prison down by
[D] Avery Hill, where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols, but empty pop
bottles was all we'd kill.
Daddy, won't you [G] take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where [D] paradise lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away.
Then the coal company came [G] with the world's [D] largest shovel, and they tortured the [A] timber
and they stripped [D] all the land.
Well they dug for their coal, [G] till the land was [D] forsaken, and they wrote it all down as
progress in man.
Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise [D] lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
[G]
[D] [A]
[D]
[A] [D] Well when I die, let my [G] ashes float down the [D] Green River, let my soul roll on [A] up to the [D] Rochester Dam.
And I'll be halfway to heaven, [G] [D] paradise waiting, just five miles away from wherever I am.
Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise
[D] lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
[D]
There's a backwoods old town that's often [D] remembered, so many times that my [A] [D] memories are old.
Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where paradise [D] lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
Sometimes we'd travel [G] right down the [D] Green River to the abandoned old [A] prison down by
[D] Avery Hill, where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols, but empty pop
bottles was all we'd kill.
Daddy, won't you [G] take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where [D] paradise lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away.
Then the coal company came [G] with the world's [D] largest shovel, and they tortured the [A] timber
and they stripped [D] all the land.
Well they dug for their coal, [G] till the land was [D] forsaken, and they wrote it all down as
progress in man.
Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise [D] lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
[G]
[D] [A]
[D]
[A] [D] Well when I die, let my [G] ashes float down the [D] Green River, let my soul roll on [A] up to the [D] Rochester Dam.
And I'll be halfway to heaven, [G] [D] paradise waiting, just five miles away from wherever I am.
Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise
[D] lay?
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it away.
Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
[D]
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When I was a child, [G] my family would [D] travel down to western Kentucky [A] where my parents were born.
_ There's a backwoods old town that's often [D] remembered, so many times that my [A] [D] memories are old.
_ _ Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where paradise [D] lay? _
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
_ _ _ _ Sometimes we'd travel [G] right down the [D] Green River to the abandoned old [A] prison down by
[D] Avery Hill, _ where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols, but empty pop
bottles was all we'd kill.
_ Daddy, won't you [G] take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where [D] paradise lay?
_ I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away. _ _ _
Then the coal company came [G] with the world's [D] largest shovel, and they tortured the [A] timber
and they stripped [D] all the land.
_ Well they dug for their coal, [G] till the land was [D] forsaken, and they wrote it all down as
progress in man.
_ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise [D] lay? _
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [D] Well _ _ _ when I die, let my [G] ashes float down the [D] Green River, let my soul roll on [A] up to the [D] Rochester Dam.
_ And I'll be halfway to heaven, [G] [D] paradise waiting, just five miles away from wherever I am.
_ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise
[D] lay? _
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. _
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it away.
_ Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _
When I was a child, [G] my family would [D] travel down to western Kentucky [A] where my parents were born.
_ There's a backwoods old town that's often [D] remembered, so many times that my [A] [D] memories are old.
_ _ Daddy, won't you take me [G] back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River [A] where paradise [D] lay? _
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
_ _ _ _ Sometimes we'd travel [G] right down the [D] Green River to the abandoned old [A] prison down by
[D] Avery Hill, _ where the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols, but empty pop
bottles was all we'd kill.
_ Daddy, won't you [G] take me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where [D] paradise lay?
_ I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has [D] hauled it away. _ _ _
Then the coal company came [G] with the world's [D] largest shovel, and they tortured the [A] timber
and they stripped [D] all the land.
_ Well they dug for their coal, [G] till the land was [D] forsaken, and they wrote it all down as
progress in man.
_ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise [D] lay? _
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
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[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ [D] Well _ _ _ when I die, let my [G] ashes float down the [D] Green River, let my soul roll on [A] up to the [D] Rochester Dam.
_ And I'll be halfway to heaven, [G] [D] paradise waiting, just five miles away from wherever I am.
_ Daddy, won't you take [G] me back to [D] Muhlenberg County, down by the Green [A] River where paradise
[D] lay? _
I'm sorry my son, but too late in asking, Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. _
Mr.
Peabody's coal [A] train has hauled it away.
_ Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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