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Intro
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Verse 1
When EbI was a child my faAbmily would trEbavel
Down to Western Kentucky where my paBb7rents were bEborn
And there's a backwards old town that's Aboften remEbembered
So many times that my meBb7mories are wEborn.
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And daEbddy won't you take me back to MuhAblenberg CoEbunty
Down by the Green River where ParBb7adise lEbay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're tAboo late in asEbking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hBb7auled it aEbway
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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