《Paradise(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:10] When I was a child my family would travel

[00:00:14] Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born

[00:00:18] There's a backwards old town that's often remembered

[00:00:22] So many times that all my mem'ries're worn.

[00:00:27] Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County

[00:00:30] Down by the Green River where paradise lay

[00:00:35] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'

[00:00:39] Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

[00:00:45] Now sometimes we float on down the Green River

[00:00:49] By the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

[00:00:54] Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with the rifles

[00:00:58] But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

[00:01:02] Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County

[00:01:06] Down by the Green River where paradise lay

[00:01:11] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'

[00:01:14] Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

[00:01:30] Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovels

[00:01:34] They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land

[00:01:38] They dug for the coal till the land was forsaken

[00:01:43] And wrote it all down as the progress of man.

[00:01:48] Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County

[00:01:51] Down by the Green River where paradise lay

[00:01:56] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'

[00:02:00] Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

[00:02:06] When I die let my body float down the Green River

[00:02:10] Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam

[00:02:14] I'll be halfway to heaven with the paradise waitin'

[00:02:18] Five miles away from wherever I am.

[00:02:23] Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County

[00:02:27] Down by the Green River where paradise lay

[00:02:31] I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'

[00:02:35] Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away...