{"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":2328079,"song":"Paradise","artist":"Pat Green","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11485265-paradise-chords-by-pat-green/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2328079?type=chord","rating":0.13237,"votes":0,"content":"[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]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\n- Dad won't you take me back to Mulenburg County,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDown by the Green River where paradise lays.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe said, \"I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMr 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're travel right down to Green River[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the abandoned old prison down by Avery Hill.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the air smelled like snakes, we'd shoot with our pistols[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut empty pop bottles are all we would kill.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen the coal company came with the worlds largest shovel,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey torchered the timber, stripped all the land.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDug for the coal til the land was forsaken.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWrote it all down as a progrss for man.[/tab]\r\n\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 Rodchester Dam.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll be half way to Heaven with paradise waitin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust five miles away from whereever I am.[/tab]","plain_text":"","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]}}}