Leaving Eden

C                   F
Hush now, don't you wake up
         C          F
We'll be leaving at first light
       Dm           C
Mama's buying you a mockingbird
   Am          F
To lull you through the night

      C                F
We'll cross the Dan by morning
         C                  F
Here's a blanket for you to share
        Dm               C
They're building down in Georgia
      Am            F
Daddy hears he'll find work there


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CHORUS---------------]
        Am                F
And the mockingbird can't sing
         E           Am
Like the crying of a dove
Continues after the ad
    C               F
And I can't tell my daughters
        E             Am
All the things that I'm scared of
    C         F                    
But I am not afraid of that bright 
E7        Am
glory up above
Dm            C             Am  
Dying's just another way to 
      F            Fm
leave the ones you love
[--------------END 
CHORUS---------------]


   C            F
No work for the working man
     C              F
Just one more empty mill
Dm            C
Hard times in Rockingham
Am           F
Hard times harder still

    C                F
The crows are in the kitchen
    C              F
The wolves at the door
    Dm               C     
Our fathers' land of Eden is 
  Am   F
paradise no more

[CHORUS]
[INSTURMENTAL]

   C                F
My sister stayed in Eden
    C                F
Her husband's got some land
   Dm            C                
An agent for the county thinks 
  Am                F
that they might make a stand
  C            F
A hard life of working
     C               F
With nothing much to show
  Dm           C            Am    
A long life of leaving with nowhere 
F
to go