Dwight Yoakam - Paradise guitar chord

Paradise

By Dwight Yoakam

CD: Dwight’s Used Records

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

12/6/2004

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When I was a child my family would travel

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Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

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And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered

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So many times that my memories are worn

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And daddy won't you take me back to Muelenberg County

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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

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Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

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Mister 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 Avery Hill

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols

Ah, but empty pop bottles was all we would kill

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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel

They tortured the timber and stripped all the land

Lord, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

Then wrote it all down as the progress of man

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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

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