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[00:07.96]When I was a child, my family would travel
[00:10.97]Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
[00:16.06]And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
[00:20.02]So many times that my memories are worn
[00:24.01]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[00:28.05]Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
[00:33.04]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[00:37.18]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[00:44.25]Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
[00:48.39]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
[00:53.22]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
[00:57.28]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[01:00.23]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[01:05.28]Down by the green river where paradise lay?
[01:10.36]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[01:14.33]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[01:30.47]Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
[01:42.57]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
[01:47.55]Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
[01:51.66]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[01:56.66]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[02:01.65]Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
[02:05.56]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[02:09.63]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[02:34.79]When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
[02:37.63]Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
[02:42.65]I'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'
[02:46.74]Just five miles away from wherever I am
[02:51.78]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[02:54.73]Down by the green river where paradise lay?
[03:00.82]Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
[03:04.94]Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
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