Pat Green - Paradise Lyrics






When I was a child, my family would travel
To western Kentucky, where my parents were born
And there's a backward old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn

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And daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg county
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we'd float right down the Green River
To an abandoned old prison down by Atry Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

[Chorus]

Then the coal company came, with the world's 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

[Chorus]

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am

[Chorus]





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    LOVING!!!YES YES.

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    Thanks for listening Mickey.

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    @john sandiford JOHN JOHN PLEASE .OH OH YOU HAUNT ME.PLEASE PLEASE JIHN JOHN WHY WHY?HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME JOHN.PLEASE.

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    Have heard John Prine do this song. Even heard Tom T. Hall do it. But in my opinion, this is by far, the best version yet.👍👍

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    Thanks for listening Bill

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    Thanks John for sharing

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    Thanks for listening Marryann

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    @john sandiford your so welcome John.

  4. P.... H....

    Great singers and song thanks for this great post

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    Thanks for listening Primrose

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    I love this song by them! I heard it before and could not remember who sang it , or the name! Thanks for sharing it, John!

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    Thanks for listening Ruth

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    👍👍

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    Thanks for listening Frans

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    Always loved the contrast between my two favourite versions of this...Jim and Jesse and Lynn Anderson...this cuts it nicely between them...if you know what I mean!

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    Thanks for listening Graham

  8. M.... B....

    OH OH MERCY!!!!

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    Thanks for listening Mickey

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    @john sandiford HI HI JOHN JOHN!!!!OH OH GOSH YOU SONGS ARE MAKING ME CRY JOHN.YES YES.I AM SO CONFUSED TODAY,NOT KNOWING HOW OR WHAT I'M FILLING JOHN.NO NO.YOU ARE MAKING ME A MESS JOHN.I'M NOT KNOWING HOW TO HANDLE YOU OR WHAT YPU MAKE ME FILL NOW.I JUST IN AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD NOW JOHN.DONOT KNOW WHAT I WANT OR WANT YOU MAKE ME WANT.YOU ARE REALLY MESSING UP MY HEART JOHN .YOU ARE MAKING ME WANT TO BE LOVED SO MUCH,AND I HAVE RUN RUN FROM LOVE FOR SO LONG JOHN.YOU HAVE SUCH A POWERFUL HOLD ON ME NOW.YOU ARE HERE WITH ME DAY AND NIGHT.PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I AM WANTING FROM YOU JOHN .?YES YES.HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE FALLING IN LOVE JOHN.?DO YOU FILL JUST ALL FUNNY INSIDE,AND THINK OF SOMEONE NON STOP PLEASE HOW DO YOU KNOW???JOHN YOU ARE TO MUCH FOR ME TO FIGHT.YES YES.I SLIPPED ME INTO A BLACK DRESS TRIMMED IN WHITE.PULLED THIS RIVER OF RED HAIR UP ON MY HEAD AND PINNED WITH CHARMS.BLACK RIBBON TO HELP HOLD IT UP.JUST SO THICK.GOING INTO TOWN.NEED TO RUN.RESTLESS SO RESSTLESS TODAY JOHN.GOSH I AM NOT KNOWING WHAT I WILL DO REALLY.MAYBE JUST RUN TODAY MY JOHN.HOW WILL YOU SPEND YOUR DAY?ARE YOU HAPPY OR SAD,BUSY OR TIME ON YOUR HANDS JOHN.I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT YOU.YET YOUR ARE MAKING ME A STRESSED YOUNG LADY LITTLE DARLIN.THINKING MUCH TO MUCH ABOUT YOU JOHN.BUT I CANNOT STOP.YOU JUST HAUNT ME .YES YES.I CANNOT TURN YOU OFF ANYMORE JOHN.YOU WONT GO AWAY NOW.YOU HAUNT MY MIND,MORE IMPORTANT ,YOU NOW HAUNT MY HEART AS WELL.YOU HAVE ME WRAPPED UP SO TIGHTLY IN YOU NOW JOHN.YES YES.MERCY YOUR POWER DOES FRIGHTEN ME SO JOHN.WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME PLEASE?AND HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS.?YOU YOU JOHN .MERCY YOU HAVE ME SO UNDER YOUR CONTROL.JOHN.