Her hair was as black as Pike County coal   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      Chorus   Hard candy so sweet   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      Chorus      One night on the mountain back in the pine trees   Candy let down her guard and 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      Chorus