Her hair was as black as pike county cold And her lips were as red as blood on the snow She wore short vinyl skirts and them boots to her knees And she lived in the holler across the mountain from me Hard Candy so sweet And I could never get enough Hard Candy so easy For me to love Wild horses couldn't keep her old man outta jail From bootlegging whiskey his sons helped him sell And growing up in that holler wasn't nothing but hot Fightin' roosters and Kerr dogs tied up in the yard Hard Candy so sweet And I could never get enough Hard Candy so easy For me to love One night on the mountain back in the pine trees Candy let down her guard, she said she loved me We left the holler when her old man got put back in jail And she told all her brothers to go straight to Hell Hard Candy so sweet And I could never get enough Hard Candy so easy For me to love