From: sluzy@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Ray Sluzewicz)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: John Prine requests
Keywords: John Prine Folk Acoustic
Date: 16 Aug 92 14:41:09 GMT
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Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc

In article <1992Aug15.145106.29395@mksol.dseg.ti.com> sluzy@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Ray Sluzewicz) writes:
>In article <1992Aug15.071037.29431@uwm.edu> dti@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Robert Mittelstadt) writes:
>>I'm looking for the chords for a couple of John Prine songs..
>> 
>>1) Sam Spade    (about the Korean war vet who comes back a morphine addict),
>>2) Neumburg/Nuellenburg/Muellenburg County   (I've  never seen the name,
>>  actually, just heard people  say it. My hearing sucks, and all my friends
>>  mumble,I think. :)
>
>Song #2 up there is called "Paradise", I used to play that long ago.
>I will post it tomorrow, assuming I remember the all the words.

Well Dan here it be! and I don't know how to spell Muell... whatever


                            Paradise by John Prine
                            as remembered by Ray Sluzewicz

  D                    G            D    
When I was a child my family would travel 
                                   Asus  A       D  Dsus D
out to Western Kentucky where my parents were born.
  D                                      G            D    

There's an ancient old town there that's often remembered,

                             Asus  A       D  Dsus D
though so many times that my memories are worn



chorus:
         D                               G             D
    And Daddy won't you take me back to Muellenberg county 
                                 Asus A      D Dsus D
    out by the Green river where Paradise lay 
    D                           G            D    
    I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'
                                 Asus  A     D  Dsus D
    Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

  D                               G            D    
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the green river to the
                         Asus  A       D  Dsus D
abandoned old prison out by Adrie hill
  D                                    G            D    
Where the air smelled like snakes we'd shoot with our pistols
                         Asus  A       D  Dsus D
but empty pop bottles is all we would kill

chorus

  D                                 G                D    
then the coal company came with the world's biggest shovel
                            Asus  A       D  Dsus D
and tortured the timber and stripped all the land 
  D                                    G            D    
Well they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken
                             Asus  A       D  Dsus D
and chalked it all up to the progress of man.

  D                          G            D    
When I die let my ashes flow down the green river 
                              Asus  A       D  Dsus D
let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam 
  D                                G            D    
and I'll be halfway to heaven with Paradise waitin'
                      Asus  A       D  Dsus D
 5 miles away from where ever   I   am
chorus:

 and finis.

Prine never would finish a song well.
I am not sure if the suspended chords are worn memories,
but they sound good.

Enjoy
Ray Sluzewicz      sluzy@icd3.dseg.ti.com  sluzy@mksol.dseg.ti.com

I accept the responsibility, but not the blame.