A trip to Paradise with
Nancy Weiss, Kathy Carroll, Jerry Briggs and Ed O'Rear
(They all brought bits and pieces of Paradise home to you)
When I was a child my family would travel down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered, so many times that my memories are worn.
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
"Down by the Green River" |
"Where Paradise lay" |
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 "Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away" |
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"Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River" |
 "To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. |
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"Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel" |
"And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land" |
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"Well they dug for the coal 'til the land was forsaken'" |
"Then they wrote it all down as a progress of man" |
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"When I die let my ashes float down the Green River" |
"Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam" |
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"I'll be half way to heaven