When I was a child,
my family would travel down to western Kentucky
where my parents were born.
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
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 travel
right down the green river
To the abandoned old prison
down by a drill
Where the air smelled like snakes
and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles
was all we would kill
Daddy, won't you take me back
to Mutenberg 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 core changes,
let's hold it away
Then the coal company come
with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
and stripped all the lamb
And they dug for the coal
till the land was forsaken
They wrote it all down as
a progress man
Daddy won't you take me back
to Mutenberg 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 coach train is holdin'
away
Now when I die would my ashes
float down the green river
And let my soul roll on up
to the Rochester dam
I'll be half way to heaven
with paradise away
Just five miles away from wherever I am
And then won't you take me back
to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river with paradise away
I'm sorry my son,
but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's court train is holdin' away
Mr. Peabody's court train is holdin'
away
Thank you for