Paradise Uke tab by John Prine

C F C  G7 C  F C  G7 C  G7 C

 

     C                F            C

When I was a child my family would travel,

                                  G7           C

down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

                                        F       C

And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered,

                      G7           C

so many times that my memories are worn.

 

    C                               F          C

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,

                              G7       C

down by the Green River where Paradise lay

                                   F           C

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,

                             G7         C

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

 

      C                           F              C

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River,

                                    G7    C

to the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

                                           F              C

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols,

                          G7           C

but empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

 

    C                               F          C

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,

                              G7       C

down by the Green River where Paradise lay

                                   F           C

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,

                             G7         C

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

 

C F C  G7 C  F C  G7 C   G7 C

 

         C                          F               C

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,

                                 G7               C

and they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

                                       F           C

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken,

                                   G7          C

then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

 

    C                               F          C

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,

                              G7       C

down by the Green River where Paradise lay

                                   F           C

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,

                             G7         C    C G7 C

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

 

       C                      F              C

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River,

                              G7        C

let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

                               F        C

I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin',

                              G7     C

just five miles away from wherever I am.

 

    C                               F          C

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,

                              G7       C

down by the Green River where Paradise lay

                                   F           C

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,

                             G7         C

Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

 

C F C  G7 C  F C  G7 C   G7 C . . .