Paradise - Live

Well, I don't know about you
But I have a hell of a good time tonight
Thank you very much everybody
Hey, I don't know why, but, uh
I feel I'm in John Pine country down here
And, uh, I know I am, so
This is one of my favorite old songs
And since I'm seating here on the board of Ohio Kentucky
I thought I would just do this tonight, uh
Truly, uh, I don't know for whatever reason, but
In my mind, Cincinnati here is
A piece of my paradise, thank you very much, yeah

When I was a child, my family used to travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backward old town that's so often remembered
So many times, that my memories are worn

Hey, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Well, sometimes we would 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 up our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

Hey, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Well, coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
And they dug for their coal
'Til the land was forsaken
And they marked it all down
As the progress of man

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

Hey, daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Thank you, God bless ya, goodnight
Thank you all