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Verse 1
When DI was a child my faGmily would trDavel
Down to Western Kentucky where my paA7rents were bDorn
And there's a backwards old town that's Goften remDembered
So many times that my meA7mories are wDorn.
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And daDddy won't you take me back to MuhGlenberg CoDunty
Down by the Green River where ParA7adise lDay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're tGoo late in asDking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hA7auled it aDway
Verse 2
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie 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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Verse 3
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.
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Verse 4
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.
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