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{title: Paradise}
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{artist: John Prine}
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{capo: 5}
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{time: 3/4}
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{start_of_verse}
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When [C]I was a child my [F]family would [C]travel
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Down to [C]Western Kentucky where my [G]parents were [C]born
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And there's a [C]backwards old town that's [F]often re[C]membered
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[C]So many times that the [G]memories are [C]worn
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{end_of_verse}
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{soc}
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So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County
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Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay
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Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking
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Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way
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{eoc}
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{start_of_verse}
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[C]Sometimes we'd travel right [F]down the Green [C]River
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To the [C]abandoned old prison u[G]pon Adrie [C]Hill
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Where the [C]air smelled like snakes and we'd [F]shoot with our [C]pistols
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But [C]empty pop bottles was [G]all that we'd [C]kill
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{end_of_verse}
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{soc}
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So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County
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Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay
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Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking
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Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way
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{eoc}
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{start_of_grid}
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|| C . . | C . . | F . . | C . . |
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| C . . | C . . | G . . | C . . |
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| C . . | C . . | F . . | C . . |
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| C . . | C . . | G . . | C . . ||
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{end_of_grid}
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{start_of_verse}
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Then the [C]coal comp'ny came with the [F]world's largest [C]shovel
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They [C]tortured the timber, they [G]stripped all the [C]land
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Well, they [C]cut it all down lookin' [F]for that [C]coal
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An' they [C]wrote it all down as the [G]progress of [C]man
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{end_of_verse}
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{soc}
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So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County
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Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay
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Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking
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Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way
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{eoc}
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{start_of_verse}
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When I [C]die let my ashes float [F]down the Green [C]River
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Let 'em [C]roll on up to the [G]Rochester [C]Dam
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I'll be [C]halfway to heaven with [F]Paradise [C]waitin'
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Just [C]five miles away from wher[G]ever I [C]am
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{end_of_verse}
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{soc}
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So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County
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Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay
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Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking
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Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way
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{eoc}
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