Biography:
Jim Bakkum, born Jimmy Johannes Bakkum on August 10, 1987, in Egmond-Binnen, North Holland is a Dutch singer and actor.
As a child he was encouraged to sing and act by his parents. He started a band with his older brother Danny and he performed in amateur theatre productions. In 2002, his brother suggested that he should audition for the Dutch TV talent programme "Idols". He became the youngest contestant at 15 years of age.
After being voted into second place in the competition
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[Verse]
D G D
When I was a child my family would travel
A D
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
G D
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
A D
So many times that my memories are worn
G D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
A D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
G D
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking
A D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
**********
D G D
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
A D
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
G D
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
A D
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[Chorus]
D G D
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
A D
They tortured the timber and stripped all the land
G D
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
A D
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[Chorus]
D G D
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
A D
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
G D
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting
A D
Just five miles away from wherever I am
D G D
When I was a child my family would travel
A D
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
G D
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
A D
So many times that my memories are worn
G D
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
A D
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
G D
Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking
A D
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
**********
D G D
Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
A D
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
G D
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
A D
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[Chorus]
D G D
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
A D
They tortured the timber and stripped all the land
G D
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
A D
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[Chorus]
D G D
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
A D
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
G D
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting
A D
Just five miles away from wherever I am
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