When I was a boy, my family would travel   Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born   To a lost little town there that’s all but remembered   So many times that my memories are worn.      Chorus:   And, “Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County?   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?”   He said, “I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking   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 Aidrie Hill   Where the air smelled like snakes & we’d shoot our pistols   Ooh, but empty pop bottles is all we would kill.      Chorus:   And, “Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County?   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?”   He said, “I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking   Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.”      Well, the coal company came with the, world’s largest shovel,   They tortured the timber and stripped all the land   Lord, they dug for their coal ‘til the ground was forsaken   And wrote it all down as the, “Progress of man.”      Chorus:   And, “Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County?   Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?”   He said, “I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking   Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.”      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 5 miles away from wherever I am...