Carolina Chocolate Drops - Leaving Eden lyrics

Hush now, don't you wake up We'll be leaving at first light Mama's buying you a mockingbird To lull you through the night Across the Dan by morning Here's a blanket for you to share They're building down in Georgia Daddy hears he'll find work there And the mockingbird can sing Like the crying of the dove And I can't tell my daughters All the things that I am scared of But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above Dying's just another way to lead the ones you love No work for the working man Just one more empty mill Hard times in Rockingham Hard times harder still The crows are in the kitchen The wolves at the door Our father's land of Eden is paradise no more And the mockingbird can sing Like the crying of the dove And I can't tell my daughters All the things that I am scared of But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above Dying's just another way to lead the ones you love My sister stayed in Eden Her husband's got some land An agent for the county thinks that they might make a stand A hard life full of working With nothing much to show A long life of leaving with nowhere to go And the mockingbird can sing Like the crying of the dove And I can't tell my daughters All the things that I am scared of But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above Dying's just another way to lead the ones you love