Tom: D5 D5 G5 D5 When I was a child my fam'ly would travel A5 D5 down to Western Kentucky, where my parents were born G5 D5 and there's a backwards old town that's often remembered A5 D5 so many times that my mem'ries are worn (Chorus) D5 G5 D5 And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A5 D5 down by the Green River where Paradise lay G5 D5 Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking A5 D5 Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away D5 G5 D5 Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River A5 D5 to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill D5 G5 where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our D5 rifles A5 D5 but empty pop bottles was all we would kill (to chorus) D5 G5 D5 Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel D5 A5 D5 and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land D5 G5 Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forgotten A5 D5 then they wrote it all down as the progress of man (to chorus) D5 G5 D5 When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River A5 D5 let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam D5 G5 D5 I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting A5 D5 just five miles away from wherever I am (to chorus)
