Mockingbird

Accordi Mockingbird

Intro:
MIm  
DO    
RE  
MIm

                
MIm         
DO6
I know sometimes things may not 
                               
RE  
MIm
always make sense to you right now
                           
DO
But hey, what daddy always tell you?
RE                          
MIm
Straighten up little soldier
                          
DO6
Stiffen up that upper lip
                 
RE
What you crying about?
MIm
You got me
                   
Hailie, I know you miss your mom, 
DO
 and I know you miss your dad
         
RE             
When I'm gone but I'm trying to give you 
    
MIm
the life that I never had
                           
DO6
I can see you're sad, even when you smile, 

even when you laugh
RE                   
MIm
I can see it in your eyes, 

deep inside you want to cry
                              
DO
'Cause you're scared, I ain't there?

Daddy's with you in your prayers
RE                        
MIm
No more crying, wipe them tears
        
Daddy's here, no more nightmares
                      
DO6
We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it
               
RE 
Lainie Uncle's crazy, ain't he?
          
MIm
Yeah, but he loves you girl and you better know it
                         
DO
We're all we got in this world

When it spins, when it swirls
RE                      
MIm
When it whirls, when it twirls

Two little beautiful girls
                      
DO6
Lookin' puzzled, in a daze

I know it's confusing you
RE                    
MIm
Daddy's always on the move, 
            
mamma's always on the news
                   
I try to keep you sheltered 
DO
from it but somehow it seems
           
RE
The harder that I try to do that, 
MIm
the more it backfires on me
                             
DO6
All the things growing up as daddy, 

that he had to see
            
RE
Daddy don't want you to see 
    
MIm          
but you see just as much as he did
                              
DO
We did not plan it to be this way, 

your mother and me
                
RE
But things have got so bad between us
        
MIm
I don't see us ever being together ever again
DO6           
Like we used to be when we was teenagers
RE                    
MIm
But then of course everything 

always happens for a reason
           
DO 
I guess it was never meant to be
                        
RE
But it's just something we have no control over
    
MIm
and that's what destiny is
                     
DO6
But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
      
RE    
Maybe one day we'll wake up 
    
MIm
and this will all just be a dream

    
MIm           
DO
Now hush little baby, don't you cry
     
RE                 
MIm
Everything's gonna be alright
                                    
DO6
Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
                
RE                  
MIm
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

I know mommy's not here right now 
DO
and we don't know why
   
RE                 
MIm
We fear how we feel inside
                                   
DO6
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
              
RE               
MIm
But I promise mama's gon' be alright

(Ha)  It's funny

MIm                      
DO                    
I remember back one year when daddy had no money
      
RE                             
MIm
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up

And stuck 'em under the tree 

and said some of 'em were from me
DO6
'Cause daddy couldn't buy 'em
       
RE
I'll never forget that Christmas 
MIm
I sat up the whole night crying
                             
DO
'Cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
        
RE
But his job was to keep the food 
MIm
on the table for you and mom
                      
DO6
And at the time every house that we lived in
                    
RE                   
MIm
Either kept getting broken into and robbed

Or shot up on the block and your mom 
           
DO
was saving money for you in a jar
      
RE                     
MIm
Tryna start a piggy bank for you 

so you could go to college
                              
DO6
Almost had a thousand dollars
              
'til someone broke in and stole it
RE                     
MIm
And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mamma's heart
                        
And it seemed like everything was 
DO
just startin' to fall apart
RE                    
MIm
Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back
                       
DO6
On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
    
RE                          
MIm
And dad moved back to the other side 

of 8 Mile on Novara
                              
DO
And that's when daddy went to California 
                    
RE
with his CD and met Dr. Dre
         
MIm
And flew you and momma out to see me
                      
DO6
But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
         
RE                 
Then you started seeing daddy 
MIm
on the T.V. and momma didn't like it
            
DO 
And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it
RE                 
MIm
Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit
                        
DO6
And it all happened too fast 
                            
for either one of us to grab it
RE                      
MIm
I'm just sorry you were there 

and had to witness it first hand
                            
DO
'Cause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
RE                      
MIm      
Now I'm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing
                     
DO
Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
           
RE
To see how much you both have grown, 
     
MIm
it's almost like you're sisters now
                 
DO                              
Wow, I guess you pretty much are 
                  
RE
and daddy's still here
                    
MIm
Lainnie I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here
                    
DO
I like the sound of that, yeah
                      
RE
It's got a ring to it don't it?
            
MIm
Shh, mama's only gone for the moment

    
MIm           
DO
Now hush little baby, don't you cry
     
RE                 
MIm
Everything's gonna be alright
                                    
DO6
Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
                
RE                  
MIm
Daddy's here to hold ya through the night

I know mommy's not here right now 
DO
and we don't know why
   
RE                 
MIm
We fear how we feel inside
                                   
DO6
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
              
RE               
MIm
But I promise mama's gon' be alright

And if you ask me to
                  
DO
Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
RE                 
MIm
I'mma give you the world

I'mma buy a diamond ring for you
      
DO6
I'mma sing for you
                 
RE                 
MIm
I'll do anything for you to see you smile

And if that mockingbird don't sing 
DO
and that ring don't shine
      
RE                  
MIm
I'mma break that birdie's neck
                                        
DO
I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
                       
RE
And make him eat every carat 
                
MIm
don't fuck with dad (ha ha)