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This song was first released on the Rocky Mountain High album. It is the only album it has been released on. |
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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 mem'ries are worn |
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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 |
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Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River |
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill |
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Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols |
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill |
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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 |
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And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel |
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And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land |
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Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken |
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Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man |
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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 |
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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg 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 |
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Words and music by John Prine |