When I was a child my family would travel   Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born   And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered   So many times that my mem'ries are worn      And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muglenberg County?   Down by the Green River where paradise lay   ?Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking   Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away?      Well sometimes we traveled right down the Green River   By the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill   Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with the pistols   But empty pop bottles was all we would kill      And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muglenberg County   Down by the Green River where paradise lay?   ?Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking   Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away?      Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovels   They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land   Well, they dug for the coal 'til the land was forsaken   Then we wrote it all down as the progress of man      And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muglenberg County   Down by the Green River where paradise lay?   ?Well, I'm sorry my child but you're too late in asking   Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away   Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away?