Kelsey Waldon – Paradise chords

[Intro]
G C G G D G G C G G D G F G

[Verse 1]
     G                C            GWhen I was a child my family would travel
                                  D            GDown to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
              G                         C       GAnd there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
   G                  D            GSo many times that my memories are worn

[Verse 2]
      G                           C              GWell, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
        G                           D     GTo the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
          G                                C              GWhere the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
    G                     D            GBut empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

[Chorus]
    G                               C          GAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     G                        D        GDown by the Green River where Paradise lay
          G                        C           GWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
    G                        D          GMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[Interlude]
G C G G D G

[Verse 3]
         G                          C               GThen the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
         G                       D                GAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
           G                           C           GWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
          G                        D           GThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man

[Chorus]
    G                               C          GAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     G                        D        GDown by the Green River where Paradise lay
          G                        C           GWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
    G                        D          GMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[Interlude]
G C G G D G G C G G D G F G

[Verse 4]
       G                      C              GWhen I die let my ashes float down the Green River
       G                      D         GLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
        G                      C        GI'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
     G                        D      GJust five miles away from wherever I am

[Chorus]
    G                               C          GAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     G                        D        GDown by the Green River where Paradise lay
          G                        C           GWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
    G                        D          GMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
    G                        D          GMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
    G                        D          GMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away