Leaving Eden

Hush now, don't you wake up
 We'll be leaving at first light
 Gonna find you a mockingbird
 To lull you through the night
 Across the den by morning
 Here's a blanket for you to share
 They're building down in Georgia
 Daddy hears he'll find work there
 CHORUS:
 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 for working men
 Hard times harder still
 The crows are in the kitchen
 The wolves at the door
 Our fathers' land of eden is paradise no more
 CHORUS
 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
 CHORUS