(Dolly Parton)      I grew up dirty and I grew up poor, the wolf didn't even hang 'round our door   Not a crumb to spare and the cupboard bare   And I had the gift of imagination I could change my situation   Anytime I choose I could always go down Paradise Road   I found a kingdom deep within a place dream and to pretend   And to prepare for the world out there   A dream can dress you when you're ragged, fill you up when hunger's naggin'   I warmed my soul when life was cold on Paradise Road.      Chorus:   Paradise is a state of mind, the sun shines warm and all the time   And the rain don't flow and the wind don't blow on Paradise Road   A place no one can take from me, a place of everlasting peace   Where dreamers go; It's never closed Paradise Road.      --- Instrumental ---      Paradise is a state of mind down the road of life and time   And the friends we meet make the travlin' sweet on Paradise Road   Sometimes now when the world is mad I find that place I've always had   Inside my soul it's paved in gold, Paradise Road.      I grew up dirty and I grew up poor, the wolf didn't even hang 'round our door   Not a crumb to spare and the cupboard bare   But I had the gift of imagination I could change my situation   Anytime I choose I could always go down Paradise Road.      Paradise Road, Paradise Road,   Down Paradise Road, Paradise Road...