^{C G C C}When I was a child, my ^Ffamily would ^Ctravel down to western Kentucky, where my ^Gparents were ^Cborn And there's a backwards-old town, that's ^Foften re^Cmembered So many times, that my ^Gmemories are ^Cworn And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking The Keystone Pipeline's hauled it away Sometimes we'd travel, right down the Green River To that abandoned old prison, down by Adrie Hill Where the air smelled like snakes, and we shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking The Keystone Pipeline's hauled it away And the gas company came, with the world's largest drill and they tortured the timber, and stripped all the land And they Fracked for their gas, till the land was forsaken then they wrote it all down as the progress of man Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking The Keystone Pipeline 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 waiting Just 5 miles away from wherever I am Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking The Keystone Pipeline's hauled it away