https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/BILL\/MuhlenburgCounty.pdf<\/p>\n
C MUHLENBURG COUNTY , John Prine<\/span> # # # So Daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County,<\/span> Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River<\/span> Then the coal company came with the world’s biggest shovel<\/span> When I die let my ashes float down the Green River<\/span>
\nWhen I was a child my family would travel,<\/span>
\nDown to Western Kentucky where my parents were born.<\/span>
\nAnd there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered,<\/span>
\nSo many times that my memories are worn.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nDown by the Green River where Paradise lay.<\/span>
\nWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking<\/span>
\nMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away<\/span><\/p>\n
\nTo the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill<\/span>
\nWhere the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols<\/span>
\nBut empty pop bottles was all we would kill<\/span>
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\nAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the land<\/span>
\nWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken<\/span>
\nThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man<\/span>
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\nLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam<\/span>
\nI’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’<\/span>
\nJust five miles away from wherever I am<\/span><\/p>\n