Eden Before The Fall

Spanish moss drippin' from a live oak tree

Mockin' bird sittin' on a cypress knee

Sweet old sycamore blowin' in the breeze

The slammin' of the screen door

Ice cold creek and sugar white sand

Pink azalea bloomin' like to beat the band

Granddaddy reachin' down to take my hand

Gonna go to the candy store

Me and Jesus we was thick as thieves

He washed me in the blood and lordy I believed

And I gave him my heart at the altar call

Back in Eden before the fall, Eden before the fall

Coal black curls and a dimple in his chin

A swagger in his walk and a sideways grin

Even Elvis himself had nothin' on him

The boy couldn't be denied

His daddy's in the pulpit shoutin' fury and fire

We're sneakin' out the back door behind the choir

And it couldn't be wrong 'cause it was pure desire

We were saved and sanctified

Lyin' on a bed of magnolia leaves

He said I was an angel Lord and I believed

And I gave him my heart, Lord, I gave it all

Back in Eden before the fall, Eden before the fall

The apple tasted sweeter and the world was clean

I could make sense out of everything

Now it's just a beautiful dream I can't quite recall

Just like Eden before the fall, Eden before the fall