Lyrics Paradise - Dwight Yoakam
When
I
was
a
boy
my
family
would
travel
Inta'
Western
Kentucky
where
my
parents
were
born
To
a
lost
little
town
there
thats
often
remembered
So
many
times
that
my
memory
drew
warn
And
daddy
won't
ya
take
me
back
to
Mulingburg
County
Down
by
the
green
river
where
Paradise
lay
He
said
I'm
sorry
my
son
but
yer
too
late
in
askin'
Mr.
Peabodys'
coal
trains
hauled
it
away
Well
sometimes
we
travel
right
down
the
green
river
To
the
abandoned
old
prison
down
by
Gadry
Hill.
Where
the
air
smelled
like
snakes
an'
we'd
shoot
off
pistols
Ahh
but
empty
pop
bottles
is
all
we
would
kill
And
daddy
won't
ya
take
me
back
to
Mulingburg
County
Down
by
the
green
river
where
paradise
lay
He
said
i'm
sorry
my
son
but
yer
too
late
in
askin'
Mr.
Peabodys'
coal
train
has
hauled
it
away
Welll
the
coal
compny'
came
with
the
worlds
largest
shovel
They
tortured
the
timber
and
stripped
all
of
the
land
Lord
they
dug
for
their
coal
til
the
ground
was
forsaken
Then
wrote
it
all
down
as
a
the
Progress
Of
Man
So
daddy
won't
ya
take
me
back
to
Mulingburg
County
Down
by
the
green
river
where
Paradise
lay
He
said
I'm
sorry
my
son
but
yer
too
late
in
askin'
Mr.
Peabodys'
coal
trains
hauled
it
away
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
waitin'
Just
5 miles
away
from
wherever
I
am
Ohhh...
and
daddy
won't
ya
take
me
back
to
Mulingburg
County
Down
by
the
green
river
where
Paradise
lay
He
said
I'm
sorry
my
son
but
yer
too
late
in
askin'
Mr.
Peabodys'
coal
train
has
hauled
it
away
He
said
I'm
sorry
my
son
but
yer
too
late
in
askin'
Mr.
Peabodys
coal
train
has
hauled
it
away
Oh
Mr.
Peabodys'
coal
train
has
hauled
it
away.
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