When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
My Celtic John Fogerty is a cowboy, Rory Gallagher was a cowboy to spent all his summers out on the Western Plain with a bunch of cowboys and Jesse James, Also Phil Lynott was also a cowboy, lonesome on the trail, my other Celtic cousin John Prine he was a cowboy to In Spite of himself, some of the very best rockers that ever walked up on stage, plugged in their guitars to the mains electrical supply and let it rip and let it roll were Cowboys so I will become a cowboy too. So Thanks A Millon John Prine, John Fogerty, Rory Gallagher, Phil Lynott and all the other very great cowboys and cowgirls for their music, their songs and their stories