[00:04.35]When I was a child, my family would travel
[00:07.96]Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
[00:12.97]And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
[00:17.00]So many times that my memories are worn
[00:22.00]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[00:25.77]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[00:30.76]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[00:34.66]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[00:39.77]Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
[00:43.44]To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
[00:48.39]Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
[00:52.45]But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[00:57.38]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[01:01.05]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[01:05.97]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[01:09.89]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[01:15.21]And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
[01:18.98]And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
[01:23.93]And they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
[01:28.15]Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[01:32.16]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[01:35.87]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[01:40.84]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[01:44.66]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
[01:50.02]And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
[01:53.72]Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
[01:58.70]Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
[02:02.50]Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away