Mockingbird

Mockingbird: Chords

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)

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Mockingbird è un brano scritto e interpretato da Eminem, pseudonimo di Marshall Bruce Mathers III, contenuto nell'album Encore pubblicato nel 2004. Quinto disco di inediti per il rapper del Missouri, ruota attorno alla sua voglia di abbandonare la scena musicale il prima possibile; una necessità resa evidente nel finale della title track. La canzone è il quinto singolo estratto dall'album e racconta il suo legame con la figlia Hailie Jade; nel testo ci parla anche delle difficoltà con la ex moglie Kim.

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).