Her hair was as black as Pike County cold Her lips were as red as blood on the snow She wore short vinyl skirts and them boots to her knees And she lived in the holler across the mountain from me Chorus Hard candy so sweet I could never get enough Hard candy so easy for me to love Wild horses couldn't keep her old man outta jail From bootlegging whiskey his sons helped him sell
And growing up in that holler wasn't nothing but hot Fightin' roosters and kerr dogs tied up in the yard Chorus One night on the mountain back in the pine trees Candy let down her guard and said she loved me We left the holler when her old man got put back in jail And she told all her brothers to go straight to hell Chorus