I was a child,
my family would travel down to western
Kentucky where my parents
were born
There's a backwards old town
that's often remembered
So many times that
my memories are worn
Dad, won't you take me back to
Muhlenberg
County
Down by the
Green
River where paradise lay
He said, I'm sorry, my son,
but you're too late
And ask him if the
Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd
travel right down the
Green
River
To the abandoned old prison down by
Avery
Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes,
we'd shoot with our pistols
And empty pop bottles
was all we would kill
Dad, won't you take me back to
Muhlenberg
County
Down by the
Green
River where paradise reigns
I said, I'm sorry, my son,
but you're too late in asking
Mr.
Peabody's coal train has hauled it
away
When the coal company came with
the world's largest shovel
They tortured the timber
and stripped all the land
He dug for the coal until
the land was forsaken
He wrote it all down as a progress man
Dad won't you take me back to
Muhlenberg
County
Down by the green river
where paradise was laid
I said I'm sorry my son
but you're too late
To be my ice -cold train
that's hauled in a wave
When I die, my ashes float
down the green river
Let my soul roll on up to the
Rochester dam
And I'll be halfway to heaven,
but paradise is waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am
Dad, won't you take me back to
Muhlenberg
County
Down by the green river
where paradise will lay
I said, I'm sorry my son,
but you're too late in asking
Mr.
Peabody's gold train has hauled it away
How dare won't you take
me back to
Newtonburg
County
Down by the
Green
River where paradise lays
Said I'm sorry my son,
but you're too late in asking
Mr.
Peabody's gold train has hauled
it away
You
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