when i was a boy my family would travel inta western kentucky where my parents were born to a lost little town there thats often remembered so many times that my memory drew warn and daddy won t ya take me back to mulingburg county down by the green river where paradise lay he said i m sorry my son but yer too late in askin mr peabodys coal trains hauled it away well sometimes we travel right down the green river to the abandoned old prison down by gadry hill where the air smelled like snakes an we d shoot off pistols ahh but empty pop bottles is all we would kill and daddy won t ya take me back to mulingburg county down by the green river where paradise lay he said i m sorry my son but yer too late in askin mr peabodys coal train has hauled it away welll the coal compny came with the worlds largest shovel they tortured the timber and stripped all of the land lord they dug for their coal til the ground was forsaken then wrote it all down as a the progress of man so daddy won t ya take me back to mulingburg county down by the green river where paradise lay he said i m sorry my son but yer too late in askin mr peabodys coal trains 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 ohhh and daddy won t ya take me back to mulingburg county down by the green river where paradise lay he said i m sorry my son but yer too late in askin mr peabodys coal train has hauled it away he said i m sorry my son but yer too late in askin mr peabodys coal train has hauled it away oh mr peabodys coal train has hauled it away
['bakersfield sound', 'country', 'country rock']