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Hush now, donât you wake up
Weâll be leaving at first light
Gonna find you a mockingbird
To lull you through the night
Across the den by morning
Hereâs a blanket for you to share
Theyâre building down in Georgia
Daddy hears heâll find work there
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And the mockingbird can sing
Like the crying of the dove
And I canât tell my daughters
All the things that I am scared of
But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above
Dyingâs 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 fathersâ land of eden is paradise no more
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My sister stayed in Eden
Her husbandâs 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
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