Capo 2
v.1
^DWhen I was a child my ^Gfamily would ^Dtravel
^DDown western Kentucky where my ^Aparents were ^Dborn
^DAn old backwards town that's ^Goften re^Dmembered
^DSo many times my ^Amemories are ^Dworn

Chorus:
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 askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

v.2
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the old prison town down by Avery Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot our pistols
But empty pop bottles were all that we'd kill

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v.3
Then the coal company came with the world's biggest shovel
And they tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
They searched for the coal til the land was forsaken
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man

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