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When I was a child,
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my family would travel down to western Kentucky
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where my parents were born.
There's a backwards old town
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that's often remembered
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so many times
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that my memories are worn.
And daddy, won't you take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the green river
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where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train
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has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel
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right down the green river
To the abandoned old prison
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down by a drill
Where the air smelled like snakes
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and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles
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was all we would kill
Daddy, won't you take me back
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to Mutenberg County
Down by the green river
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where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's core changes,
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let's hold it away
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Then the coal company come
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with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber
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and stripped all the lamb
And they dug for the coal
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till the land was forsaken
They wrote it all down as
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a progress man
Daddy won't you take me back
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to Mutenberg County
Down by the green river
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where paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
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Mr. Peabody's coach train is holdin'
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away
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Now when I die would my ashes
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float down the green river
And let my soul roll on up
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to the Rochester dam
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I'll be half way to heaven
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with paradise away
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Just five miles away from wherever I am
And then won't you take me back
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to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the green river with paradise away
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I'm sorry my son,
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but you're too late in askin'
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Mr. Peabody's court train is holdin' away
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Mr. Peabody's court train is holdin'
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away
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