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  • This song was first released on the rocky mountain high album. it is the only album it has been released on.
  • When I was a child, my family would travel
  • Down to western kentucky where my parents were born
  • And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered
  • So many times that my memries are worn
  • And daddy wont you take me back to muhlenberg county
  • Down by the green river where paradise lay
  • Well, Im sorry, my son, but youre too late in asking
  • Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away
  • Well sometimes wed travel right down the green river
  • To the abandoned old prison down by adrie hill
  • Where the air smelled like snakes and wed shoot with our pistols
  • But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
  • And daddy wont you take me back to muhlenberg county
  • Down by the green river where paradise lay
  • Well, Im sorry, my son, but youre too late in asking
  • Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away
  • And the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel
  • And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
  • Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
  • Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
  • And daddy wont you take me back to muhlenberg county
  • Down by the green river where paradise lay
  • Well, Im sorry, my son, but youre too late in asking
  • Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away
  • And daddy wont you take me back to muhlenberg county
  • Down by the green river where paradise lay
  • Well, Im sorry, my son, but youre too late in asking
  • Mister peabodys coal train has hauled it away
  • Words and music by john prine

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