Leaving Eden(Chords)

	        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 


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



   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       Am   F 
Our fathers' land of Eden is paradise no more 

CHORUS 
INSTURMENTAL 

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

CHORUS
	        

Written by Laurelyn Dossett