When I was a child my family used to travel Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born And there's a backward old town that's so often remembered So many times that my memories are worn
Hey daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot off our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Well coal company came with the world's largest shovel And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land And they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken And they marked it all down as the progress of man
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting Just five miles away from wherever I am
Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it awayTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
