Paradise (Live) lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

 When I was a child my family used to travel

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

And there's a backward old town that's so often remembered

So many times that my memories are worn

Hey daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

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

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River

To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

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

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

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

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Well coal company came with the world's largest shovel

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

And they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken

And they marked it all down as the progress of man

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

Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

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

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away