Pat Green - Paradise guitar chord

Paradise

by Pat Green

Album: Songs We Wish We'd Written

Written by:

Prine

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D G D

When I was a child my family would travel

A D

Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born.

G D

There's a backwards old town that's often remembered

A D

So many times that my memories are worn.

D G D

- Dad won't you take me back to Mulenburg County,

A D

Down by the Green River where paradise lays.

G D

He said, "I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'.

A D

Mr Peabody's coal-train has hauled it away." -

D G D

Well sometimes we're travel right down to Green River

A D

To the abandoned old prison down by Avery Hill.

G D

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

A D

But empty pop bottles are all we would kill.

- REPEAT CHORUS -

D G D

Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel,

A D

They torchered the timber, stripped all the land.

G D

Dug for the coal til the land was forsaken.

A D

Wrote it all down as a progrss for man.

- REPEAT CHORUS -

D G D

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River,

A D

Let my soul roll on up to the Rodchester Dam.

G D

And I'll be half way to Heaven with paradise waitin'

A D

Just five miles away from whereever I am.

- REPEAT CHORUS TWICE -

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D = X00232

G = 320003

A = X02220

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