Tablature paradise - The Everly Brothers

          



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  From: Shawn Wells <rainmakr@gte.net>

  Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 7:47 PM

  Subject: Paradise

  

  

                                 Paradise

  written by John Prine for the Everly brothers birthplace, Brownie KY.

  Recorded by THE EVERLY BROTHERS

  From the album Pass the Chicken and Listen, 1971

  submitted by Shawn Wells     rainmakr@gte.net

  

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  D                                 G               D

  When I was a child my family would travel

                                                           A7               D

  Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

                                                            G     D

  And theres a backwards old town thats often remembered

                                       A7                D

  So many times that my memories are worn

  

  CHORUS

  D                                                        G              D

  And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County

                                                  A7         D

  Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

                                                      G      D

  Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in asking

                                              A7       D

  Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

  

  

  D                                              G                    D

  Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river

                                                     A7         D

  To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill

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  Where the air smelt like snakes that we'd shoot with our pistols

                                           A7              D

  But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

  

  REPEAT CHORUS

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  Then the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel

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  And they tortured the timbers and stripped all the land

                                                     G               D

  Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

                                                     A7            D

  Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

  

  

  REPEAT CHORUS

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  When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River

                                             A7           D

  Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam

                                               G        D

  I'll be halfway to heaven with paradise waiting

                                          A7         D

  Just five miles away from wherever I am

  

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