When
C
I was a child my
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family would
C
travel,down to
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western
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Kentucky where my
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parents were
C
born.There’s a backwards old town that’s
F
often
rem
C
embered,
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so many times that my
G
memories are
C
worn.
{start_of_chorus}And
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Daddy won’t you take me back to
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Mulemberg
C
County.Down by the
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Green River where
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paradise
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lay.I’m sorry my son, but you’re
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too late in
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askin’Mr. Peabody’s
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coal train has
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hauled it
C
away.
Well
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sometimes we’d travel right
F
down the Green
C
Riverto an
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abandoned old
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prison down
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by Ebrie
C
Hill.Where the air smelled like snakes we’d
F
shoot with our
C
pistols,but empty pop bottles was
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all we would
C
kill.
Then the
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coal company came with the
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world’s largest
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shovel,and they tortured the
Am
timber and
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stripped all the
C
land.Well they dug for their coal ’till the
F
land was for
C
saken,then wrote it all
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down as the
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progress of
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man.
When I
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die let my ashes flow
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down the Green
C
River.Let my soul roll
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on up to the
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Rochester
C
Dam.I’ll be halfway to heaven with
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paradise
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waitin’just five miles away from wher
G
ever I
C
am.
These known chords are used in this song.
