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