The Singing Scoutmaster: Paradise

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When CI was a child my Ffamily would Ctravel,

down to Western Kentucky where my G7parents were Cborn

And there's a backwards old town that's Foften re-Cmembered,

so many times that my G7memories are Cworn.

And Cdaddy won't you take me back to FMuhlenberg CCounty,

down by the Green River where G7Paradise Clay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're Ftoo late in Casking,

Mr. Peabody's coal train has G7hauled it a-Cway

Well, Csometimes we'd travel right Fdown the Green CRiver,

to the abandoned old prison down by G7Adrie CHill

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd Fshoot with our Cpistols,

but empty pop bottles was G7all we would Ckill.

And Cdaddy won't you take me back to FMuhlenberg CCounty,

down by the Green River where G7Paradise Clay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're Ftoo late in Casking,

Mr. Peabody's coal train has G7hauled it a-Cway

Then the Ccoal company came with the Fworld's largest Cshovel,

and they tortured the timber and G7stripped all the Cland

Well, they dug for their coal till the Fland was for-Csaken,

then they wrote it all down as the G7progress of Cman.

And Cdaddy won't you take me back to FMuhlenberg CCounty,

down by the Green River where G7Paradise Clay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're Ftoo late in Casking,

Mr. Peabody's coal train has G7hauled it a-Cway

When I Cdie let my ashes float Fdown the Green CRiver,

let my soul roll on up to the G7Rochester Cdam

I'll be halfway to Heaven with FParadise Cwaitin',

just five miles away from wher-G7ever I Cam.

And Cdaddy won't you take me back to FMuhlenberg CCounty,

down by the Green River where G7Paradise Clay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're Ftoo late in Casking,

Mr. Peabody's coal train has G7hauled it a-Cway