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Paradise Mandolin Tabs

John Prine

Paradise Mandolin Tablature: One Song, Many Styles

Recomended level: Intermediate

A Folk Classic

Learn how to play Paradise on Mandolin with this selection of tablatures:

Simple
- Difficulty
- Key
  D
- Tempo
  60 bpm
- Tuning
  GDAE
A simple version of the melody with some great options in the lick switcher.
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Jam
- Difficulty
- Key
  D
- Tempo
  80 bpm
- Tuning
  GDAE
It's amazing what a few double stops can do.
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Bluegrass
- Difficulty
- Key
  D
- Tempo
  90 bpm
- Tuning
  GDAE
Triple stops with an old time flavor. Cross-picking licks galore, in the lick switcher. Come get ya some
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Practicing Tips

Learning Overview:
'Paradise' is an interactive and comprehensive learning tool that caters to mandolin players in various styles, including bluegrass. It offers mandolin tabs for all levels, from beginner to advanced. The key highlight of this learning platform is its emphasis on creativity underpinned by the powerful features of 'Tunefox.' Learners can enjoy a complete, personalized, and immersive mandolin learning experience.

Practice Tips:
Our innovative tools such as the 'Lick Switcher' allow you to add new licks to your song so you can understand it in a new light. This feature enables you to explore endless variations and personalize your arrangement, encouraging you to interpret the song in fresh, exciting ways.
'Arrange Slider,' another groundbreaking feature, offers learners flexibility to adjust the difficulty level and tone of the song, hence suiting everyone's pace and taste.
To enhance your practice further, 'Paradise' includes tools like adjusting tempo, providing backing tracks to accompany your play, Speed Up Function to challenge your pace, and Hide Notes for those who wish to learn by ear.
For effective learning, we advise starting slow. This builds a solid foundation and promotes better understanding and skill improvement.

Paradise lyrics

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.

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

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