| Song Name: | Paradise | By: | John Prine |
| Posted By: | Mr_Charlie | Difficulty: | Beginner |
| Key: | C | Genre: | Folk |
| Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
| Created: | 2008-01-29 22:01:00 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| Song: |
4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 When I was a child my family would travel 4 5 6 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 5 Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered 4 5 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 4 So many times that my memories are worn. Chorus: 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County 4 5 6 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 5 Down by the Green River where Paradise lays 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking 4 5 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 4 Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River 4 5 6 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 5 To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols 4 5 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 4 But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. Repeat Chorus: 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel 4 5 6 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 5 And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken 4 5 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 4 Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. Repeat Chorus: 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 When I die let my ashes float down the Green River 4 5 6 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 5 Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam 4 5 6 (66) 5 6 -6 (-6-6) 6 5 I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin' 4 5 -6 6 5 4 -4 4 -4 4 Just five miles away from wherever I am. |
