performed: John Denver transcribed: Ken Reynolds Enjoy the following selection. Paradise J. Prine (klr) D G D When I was a child my family would travel A7 D Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born G D And there's a backward old town that's often remembered A7 D So many times that my mem'ries are worn D G D And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A7 D Down by the Green River where Paradise lay G D Well, I'm sorry my son, but your too late in askin' A7 D Mister Peabody's train has hauled it away D G D Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River A7 D To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill G D Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols A7 D But empty pop bottles was all we would kill D G D And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A7 D Down by the Green River where Paradise lay G D Well, I'm sorry my son, but your too late in askin' A7 D Mister Peabody's train has hauled it away D G D The coal company came with the world's largest shovel A7 D And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land G D Well, they dug for the coal 'till the land was forsaken A7 D Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man D G D And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A7 D Down by the Green River where Paradise lay G D Well, I'm sorry my son, but your too late in askin' A7 D Mister Peabody's train has hauled it away D G D When I die let my ashes float down the Green River A7 D Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam G D I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waiting A7 D Just five miles away from where ever I am D G D And daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County A7 D Down by the Green River where Paradise lay G D Well, I'm sorry my son, but your too late in askin' A7 D Mister Peabody's train has hauled it away I have a wide variety of popular artist and venues for audio tape trading. Contact me at < ltwu46B@prodigy.com > and I will e-mail my list to you. Ken Reynolds