When I was a child, my family would travel down to western Kentucky where my parents were born.There's a backwoods 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.I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train is haunted away.Sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River, through the abandoned old prison down by Adrian.The air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols, but empty pop bottles was all we would use.And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River, where paradise lay.I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train is haunted away.And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel, they tortured the timber and stripped all the land.They dug for their coal till the land was forsaken, then mowed it all down as the rockers of man.And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River, where paradise lay.I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train is haunted away.And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green River, where paradise lay.I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train is haunted away.Mr. Peabody's coal train is haunted away.Thank you.