Leaving Eden-Carolina Chocolate Drops

[ti:Leaving Eden] [ar:Carolina Chocolate Drops] [al:Leaving Eden] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Leaving Eden - Carolina Chocolate Drops [00:15.01]Hush now don't you wake up [00:17.73]We'll be leaving at first light [00:20.87]Mama's buying you a mockingbird [00:24.41]To lull you through the night [00:29.26]Across the Dan by morning [00:32.18]Here's a blanket for you to share [00:35.66]They're building down in Georgia [00:38.49]Daddy hears he'll find work there [00:43.50]And the mockingbird can sing [00:46.84]Like the crying of the dove [00:50.58]And I can't tell my daughters [00:53.63]All the things that I am scared of [00:59.87]But I am not afraid of [01:02.51]That bright glory up above [01:06.46]Dying's just another way [01:09.44]To lead the ones you love [01:17.21]No work for the working man [01:20.41]Just one more empty mill [01:23.75]Hard times in Rockingham [01:26.86]Hard times harder still [01:31.41]The crows are in the kitchen [01:34.63]The wolves at the door [01:37.88]Our father's land of Eden [01:41.10]Is paradise no more [01:45.47]And the mockingbird can sing [01:48.81]Like the crying of the dove [01:52.12]And I can't tell my daughters [01:54.99]All the things that I am scared of [02:01.74]But I am not afraid of [02:04.37]That bright glory up above [02:08.19]Dying's just another way [02:11.17]To lead the ones you love [03:02.55]My sister stayed in Eden [03:05.47]Her husband's got some land [03:08.84]An agent for the county thinks [03:11.87]That they might make a stand [03:16.73]A hard life full of working [03:19.74]With nothing much to show [03:22.83]A long life of leaving [03:25.94]With nowhere to go [03:30.23]And the mockingbird can sing [03:33.39]Like the crying of the dove [03:36.78]And I can't tell my daughters [03:39.71]All the things [03:40.90]That I am scared of [03:46.01]But I am not afraid [03:48.40]Of that bright glory up above [03:52.36]Dying's just another way to lead the ones you love