Had to go out to a small town in Western Kentucky coal mining region for my family medicine rotation. Muhlenburg County, KY. Place is so hillbilly/redneck that you feel like you are in the twilight zone. Most people don't even get up til after 12 o'oclock in the afternoon. Ever here this song about Muhlenburg County on the radio? 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 Airdrie 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. This is the Green River going over Rochester Dam This is the Green River at our house on the river.
I went to Grayson Kentucky once and it was boring as fuck. I ending up staying at the hotel, having sex and swimming in the pool.
