{"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":2265677,"song":"Paradise","artist":"Jim & Jesse","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11476832-paradise-chords-by-jim-jesse/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2265677?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I was a child my family would travel[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDown to western Kentucky where my parents were born[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere's a backwards old town that's often remembered[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo many times that my memories are worn[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut empty pop bottles was all we would kill[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen the coal company came with the world's largest shovel[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey tortured the timber and stripped all the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I die let my ashes float down the Green River[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust five miles away from wherever I am[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["D","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}