{"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":2129467,"song":"Paradise","artist":"Johnny Cash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2129467-paradise-chords-by-johnny-cash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2129467?type=chord","rating":4.96244,"votes":12,"content":"PARADISE\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen I was a child my family would travel[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDown to Western Kentucky where my parents were born[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo a backwards old town I often remembered[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo many times that my memories are worn[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThan, sometimes we'd travel on down the Green River[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo the abandoned old prison down by Adrian Hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut empty pop bottles was all that we?d kill[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDaddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDown by the green river where paradise lay?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell the coal company came with the world's largest shovel[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                            \r\nThey stripped all the timber and tortured the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey dug for the coal till the land was forsaken[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDaddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDown by the green river where paradise lay?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen I die let my ashes float down the Green River[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFive miles away from wherever I am[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDaddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDown by the green river where paradise lay?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away\"[/tab]","plain_text":"PARADISE","chords":["A","D","E"],"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]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}