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When ID was a child my familyG would travelD
Down to Western Kentucky where my Aparents were Dborn.
There's a backDwards old town that's ofteGn remembDered
DSo many times that my Amemories are Dworn.
DAnd, Daddy, won't you take me back tGo MuelenberDg County
Down Dby the Green River where AParadise Dlay?
Well, I'm Dsorry, my son, but you'reG too late inD asking.
Mister DPeabody's coal train has Ahauled it Daway.
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill,
Where the air smelled like snakes we'd shoot with our pistols,
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land.
They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
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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 waiting,
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
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