Tom: D D G D When I was a child my fam'ly would travel A7 D down to Western Kentucky, where my parents were born G D and there's a backwards old town that's often remembered A7 D so many times that my mem'ries are worn (Chorus) D G D And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A D down by the Green River where Paradise lay G D Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking A7 D Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away D G D Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River A D to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill D G where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our D rifles A7 D but empty pop bottles was all we would kill (to chorus) D G D Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel D A D and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land D G Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forgotten A7 D then they wrote it all down as the progress of man (to chorus) D G D When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River A D let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam D G D I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting A7 D just five miles away from wherever I am (to chorus)
