Paradise Lyrics

The song Paradise is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named Personal File in the year 2006 .



When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn

"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"

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 and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has 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 five miles away from wherever I am

"And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?"
"Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"



Johnny Cash - Personal File

May 2006

  1. The Letter Edged In Black
  2. There's A Mother Always Waiting At Home
  3. The Engineer's Dying Child
  4. My Mother Was A Lady
  5. The Winding Stream
  6. Far Away Places
  7. Galway Bay
  8. When I Stop Dreaming
  9. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
  10. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
  11. Missouri Waltz
  12. Louisiana Man
  13. Paradise
  14. I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave
  15. Jim, I Wore A Tie Today
  16. Saginaw, Michigan
  17. Girl In Saskatoon
  18. The Cremation Of Sam McGee
  19. It's All Over
  20. A Fast Song
  21. Virgie
  22. I Wanted So
  23. Seal It In My Heart And Mind
  24. Wildwood In The Pines
  25. Who At My Door Is Standing
  26. Have Thine Own Way Lord
  27. Lights Of Magdala
  28. If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman
  29. The Lily Of The Valley
  30. Have A Drink Of Water
  31. The Way Worn Traveler
  32. Look Unto The East
  33. Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At The Door)
  34. The House Is Falling Down
  35. One Of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul
  36. What On Earth (Will You Do For Heaven's Sake)
  37. My Children Walk In The Truth
  38. Sanctified
  39. Lord, Lord, Lord
  40. What Is Man
  41. A Half A Mile A Day
  42. Life's Railway To Heaven

Paradise