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Paradise or Muhlenberg County 
Paradise or Muhlenberg County (John Prine) 
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When I was a child, my family would travel Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born And there's a backwoods old town that's often remembered So many times that my memories are worn
 And daddy, won't you take be back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green river where Paradise lay Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. 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 Adrien hill. Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their coal 'till the land was forsaken Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
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When I die, let my body float down the Green River Let my soul drift on down to the Rochester Dam I'll be half-way to Heaven with Paradise waitin' Just five miles from Heaven wherever I am. 
Words and music by John Prine, copyright 1971 Walden Music, Inc. and Sour Grapes Music, all rights reserved. 
Recorded on his first album, Voices from the Mountains 
Paradise is - or was - an actual town in Kentucky before the area was completely demolished by the Peabody Coal Company's stripping operations.DC DC