Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovelAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the landWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsakenThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the Green RiverLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester damI’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’Just five miles away from wherever I am
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
SongwritersJOHN PRINE
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Put me in mind of this great song by John Prine
Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovelAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the landWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsakenThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the Green RiverLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester damI’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’Just five miles away from wherever I am
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
SongwritersJOHN PRINE
Read more: John Prine – Paradise Lyrics | MetroLyrics