When I was a boy my family would travel Inta Western Kentucky where my parents were born To a lost little town there thats often remembered So many times that my memory drew warn And daddy wont me take me back to Mulingburg County Down by the green river where Paradise lay He said, Im sorry my son but yer too late in askin Mr. Peabodys coal trains hauled it away Well, sometimes we travel right down the green river To the abandoned old prison down by Gadry Hill Where the air smelled like snakes, wed shoot off pistols Ahh, but empty pop bottles is all we would kill And daddy wont me take me back to Mulingburg County Down by the green river where paradise lay He said, Im sorry my son but yer too late in askin Mr. Peabodys coal train has hauled it away Well, the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel They tortured the timber and stripped all of the land Lord, they dug for their coal til the ground was forsaken Then wrote it all down as a the Progress Of Man So daddy wont you take me back to Mulingburg County Down by the green river where Paradise lay He said, Im sorry my son but yer too late in askin Mr. Peabodys coal trains hauled it away See Dwight Yoakam LiveGet tickets as low as 48You might also likeWhen I die let my ashes float down the green river Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam Ill be halfway to heaven with Paradise waitin Just 5 miles away from wherever I am Ohh, and daddy wont you take me back to Mulingburg County Down by the green river where Paradise lay He said, Im sorry my son but yer too late in askin Mr. Peabodys coal train has hauled it away He said, Im sorry my son but yer too late in askin Mr. Peabodys coal train has hauled it away Oh, Mr. Peabodys coal train has hauled it away
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