"I Said" (Paradise Reprise) - Dwight Yoakam

When I was a boy my family would travel

Inta' Western Kentucky where my parents were born

To a lost little town there thats often remembered

So many times that my memory drew warn

And daddy won’t ya take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where Paradise lay

He said I’m sorry my son but yer 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 an' we’d shoot off pistols

Ahh but empty pop bottles is all we would kill

And daddy won’t ya take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where paradise lay

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

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away

Welll the coal compny' came with the worlds largest shovel

They tortured the timber and stripped all of the land

Lord they dug for their coal til the ground was forsaken

Then wrote it all down as a the Progress Of Man

So daddy won’t ya take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where Paradise lay

He said I’m sorry my son but yer 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

Ohhh… and daddy won’t ya take me back to Mulingburg County

Down by the green river where Paradise lay

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

Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away

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

Mr. Peabodys coal train has hauled it away

Oh Mr. Peabodys' coal train has hauled it away