Paradise - John Prine - 60 bpm

When 
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I was a 

child my 
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family would 
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travel

Down to 
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Western Ken

tucky where my 
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parents were 
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born

And there's a 
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backwards old 

town that's 
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often re
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membered

 
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So many 

times that my 
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memories are 
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worn

	And 
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daddy won't you 

take me back to 
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Muhlenberg 
D
County

	Down 
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by the Green 

River where 
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Paradise 
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lay

	Well, I'm 
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sorry my 

son, but you're 
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too late in 
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asking

	Mister 
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Peabody's 

coal train has 
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hauled it a
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way

Well 
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sometimes we'd 

travel right 
G
down the Green 
D
River

To the a
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bandoned old 

prison down 
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by Adrie 
D
Hill

Where the 
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air smelled like 

snakes and we'd 
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shoot with our 
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pistols

But 
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empty pop 

bottles was 
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all we would 
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kill

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Then the 
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coal company 

came with the 
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world's largest 
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shovel

And they 
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tortured the 

timber and 
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stripped all the 
D
land

Well, they 
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dug for their 

coal till the 
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land was for
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saken

Then they 
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wrote it all 

down as the 
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progress of 
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man.

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When I 
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die let my 

ashes float 
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down the Green 
D
River

Let my 
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soul roll on 

up to the 
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Rochester 
D
dam

I'll be 
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halfway to 

Heaven with 
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Paradise 
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waiting

Just 
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five miles a

way from wher
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ever I 
D
am

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