{"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":79978,"song":"Paradise","artist":"John Prine","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/79978-paradise-chords-by-john-prine/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/79978?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":459,"content":"Paradise by John Prine\r\n\r\nCapo 2\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\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]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown to Western Kentucky where my parents were born[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd there's a backwards old town that's often remembered[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo many times that the memories are worn[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                        [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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                                [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]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut empty pop bottles was all we would kill[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                        [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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\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]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd they tortured the timber and stripped all the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen they wrote it all down as the progress of man[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                        [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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\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]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust five miles away from wherever I am[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown by the Green River where Paradise lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                        [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]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away[/tab]","plain_text":"Paradise by John Prine\n\nCapo 2\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nC  C  F  C\nC  C  G  C\nC  C  F  C\nC  C  G  C  C  C  C\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["C","F","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"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]}}}