Well the coal company came with the world's largest shovel,
They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land.
And they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken,
And they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenburg County.
Down by the Green River where paradise lay.
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking,
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.