(Lari White/Gary Nicholson)



Spanish moss drippin` from a live oak tree

Mockin bird sittin` on a cypress knee

Sweet `ole 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

Grandaddy reachin` down to take my hand

Gonna go to the candy store



Me & Jesus we was as 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