Paradise - Jamestown Revival
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
Where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son
But you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
When I was a child
My family would travel
Down to western Kentucky
Where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town
That's often remembered
So many times
That my memories are worn
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
Where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son
But you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
Sometimes we'd travel
Right down the green river
To the abandoned old prison
Down by Airdrie Hill
It's where the air smelled like snakes
And we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles
Is all we would kill
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
Where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son
But you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
Then the coal company came
With the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber
And stripped all the land
And they dug for their coal
Till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down
As the progress of man
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
Where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son
But you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes
Float down the green river
Let my soul roll on up
To the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to heaven
With paradise waiting
Just five miles away
From wherever I am
Daddy won't you take me
Back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river
Where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son
But you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
Mister Peabody's coal
Train has hauled it away
