John Prine Paradise

**Chords:**
C  G  F  C

C                   G
When I was a child, my family would travel
      F                       C
Down to Western Kentucky, where my parents were born
    C                      G
There's a backward old town that's often remembered
      F                   C
So many times that my memories are worn

C                      G
And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     F                      C
Down by the Green River, where paradise lay
    C                       G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
     F                         C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

C                   G
Well, sometimes we roam right back to the place
    F                     C
Where we had our beginnings and our dreams took place
    C                     G
But the past is a ghost and the memories fade
     F                       C
And the stories we tell just seem to slip away

C                      G
And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
     F                      C
Down by the Green River, where paradise lay
    C                       G
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
     F                         C
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away