I Said (Paradise Reprise)

When I was a boy my family would travel

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

To a lost little town there thats often remembered

So many times that those memory drew warn

Daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where Paradise lay

He said I'm sorry my son but your too late in askin'

Mr. Peabodys' coal trains hauled it away

Well sometimes we travel right down the green river

To the abandoned old prison down by Gadry Hill.

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot off pistols

But empty pop bottles is all we would kill

Daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where paradise lay

He said i'm sorry my son but your too late in askin'

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away

Well the coal compny' came with the worlds largest shovel

They tortured the timber and stripped all of the land

They dug for their coal til the ground was forsaken

Then wrote it all down as the Progress Of Man

And daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where Paradise lay

He said I'm sorry my son but your too late in askin'

Mr. Peabodys' coal trains 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 5 miles away from wherever I am

Please daddy won't you take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where Paradise lay

He said I'm sorry my son but your too late in askin'

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away

He said I'm sorry my son but your too late in askin'

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away