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Jimmy Buffett
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When I was a child my family used to travel
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Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
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And there's a backward old town that's so often remembered
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So many times that my memories are worn
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Hey daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
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Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
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To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
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Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot off our pistols
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But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
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Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
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Well coal company came with the world's largest shovel
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And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
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And they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
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And they marked it all down as the progress of man
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When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
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Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
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I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
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Just five miles away from wherever I am
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Hey, daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
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Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
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I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
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Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
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Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away
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