{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1051304,"song":"Paradise","artist":"John Prine","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11232494-paradise-chords-by-john-prine/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1051304?type=chord","rating":4.91387,"votes":1141,"content":"Paradise chords\r\n\r\n\r\nCapo II *\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen I was a child my family would travel,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] \r\ndown to Western Kentucky where my parents were born[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd there's a backwards old town that's often remembered,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nso many times that my memories are worn.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\ndown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nto the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nbut empty pop bottles was all we would kill.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\ndown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] \r\nMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand they tortured the timber and stripped all the land[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthen they wrote it all down as the progress of man.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\ndown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen I die let my ashes float down the Green River,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nlet my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin',[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\njust five miles away from wherever I am.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\ndown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] . . .\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch] = [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[ch]F[/ch] = [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]G7[/ch] = [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nOpen (These chords are not in the original key)\r\n[ch]C[/ch] = [ch]A[/ch]\r\n[ch]F[/ch] = [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[ch]G7[/ch] = [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nOpen (These chords are not in the original key)\r\n[ch]C[/ch] = [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[ch]F[/ch] = [ch]A[/ch]\r\n[ch]G7[/ch] = [ch]B7[/ch]\r","plain_text":"Paradise chords\n\n\nCapo II *\n\nC F C G7 C F C G7 C G7 C\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC F C G7 C F C G7 C G7 C\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC F C G7 C F C G7 C G7 C . . .\n\nC = D\nF = G\nG7 = A7\nOpen (These chords are not in the original key)\nC = A\nF = D\nG7 = E7\nOpen (These chords are not in the original key)\nC = E\nF = A\nG7 = B7","chords":["C","F","G7","D","G","A7","A","E7","E","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}