Chords for Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott - Paradise

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I was a child, [G] my family [D] would travel down to western Kentucky [A] where my parents [D] were more. _
_ There's a backwards old town _ [G] that's often [D] _
remembered, so many times that [A] my _ [D] memory's
_ _ _ _ Oh daddy won't you take me [G] back to _ [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where paradise _ lay. _
_ _ _ Sorry about the time, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking, Mr.
P.
Martin's gold train is
[A] all [D] in a hurry. _ _ _
Well sometimes we'd travel [G]
right down the [D] Green River to the abandoned old prison down
by Adria Hill.
_ _ The air [G] smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with [D] our pistols, but empty pot bottles were
all we would kill. _ _ _
Oh daddy won't you [G] take me back to _ [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where paradise [D] _ lay. _
_ I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking, Mr.
P.
Martin's gold train [A] is all
in [D]
a hurry.
_ Yudmika! _ _
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_ _ _ _ Then _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ the coal company come with the [G]
world's largest [D] shovel and they tortured the timber
[A] and stripped all [D] the land. _ _
_ And they dug for the coal [G] till the ground was [D]
forsaken and wrote it all off [G] as [A] a progress [D] of man.
_ So _ daddy won't you take me [G] back to _ [D] Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where [D] paradise lay. _ _
_ But I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking, Mr.
P.
Martin's gold train [A] is
[D] all in a hurry. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ When I die let _ ships float down the Green River, let my soul roll on up to _ Rochester Dam.
[N] I'm _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ waiting just five miles away from wherever [D] I am. _
_ _ _ Daddy won't you take me [G] back to _ [D]
Muhlenberg County down by the Green River [A] where [D] paradise lay.
_ _ _ I'm sorry my son, [G] but you're too [D] late in asking, Mr.
P.
Martin's gold train [A]
is all
[D] in a hurry.
Sing it with us here.
Now daddy won't you take me [G] back to _ Muhlenberg County down [N] by the Green River [A] where [D] paradise lay. _ _ _ _
I'm [N] sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mr.
P.
Martin's gold train is [D] all
in a hurry. _ _
_ Mr.
P.
Martin's gold train [A] is [D] all in a hurry. _ _
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Aaron Stevens class _ from Central Park School in Durham.
Mic on the mandolin. _ _ _ _
Mr.
Teacher, folks.
_ Thank you very much.
We're taking a little break and we'll be back. _
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_ _ _ We're going to take an intermission and be back with more music.
We can't top that, but we're coming back in a little bit.
Thank you. _
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