Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county...

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

fill it in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHR_tA7eg4

[cyberswede]

1. Great tune!

He wrote it for his father, right?

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

2. Yep

He did

[Brickbat]

3. Sang it as a lullaby to my kids.

Among many others...

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

4. Nice

My mom only sang me Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

[Mopar151]

5. Best version

http://youtu.be/DeDWJqvpat0

Not that John Prine is not great, but Jim & Jesse take it back to the hills....

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

6. I agree

That version is better, but I still love the original. One thing Jim and Jesse have going for them is that they came rom Southwestern VA, right? So they're southerners. Prine came from Chicago, so he had to put on the accent a bit.

[Tom_Foolery]

7. I live about 20 miles north of Muhlenberg County...

and you really don't want to go there anyway. The Everly Brothers were the only things of worth to come from there...well, James Best, too.

[EFerrari]

8. down by the green river where my paradise something.

lol

Okay, I gave it a shot. :)

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

9. What?

You fail.

Maybe if you were smart and had created jerbs like dat der Rick Parry then you would have known the lyrics. =)

[EFerrari]

10. I should know it in my sleep, my ex used to do it in his second set

every Friday night for years in a peanut bar. lol

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

11. Well, here:

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.

Chorus:
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 Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

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.

Repeat Chorus:

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.

Repeat Chorus: