Leaving Eden Chords
Leaving Eden by Carolina Chocolate Drops is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Dm, Am, E, E7 and Fm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the 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
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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
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