Eminem - Mockingbird (Lyrics) Chords
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[Em] [C] [Bm] [D] Yeah, [Em] I know sometimes [Am] things may not [Em] always make sense [D] to you right now, [Em] but hey, [C] your
daddy always tell you, [A] straighten up [Em] little soldier, stiffen up that upper [Am] lip, [G] what you crying [D] about?
[Em] You got me.
Haley, I know you [C] miss your mom, and I know you [Bm] miss your dad [D] when I'm gone, but I'm [Em] trying
to give you the life that I never had.
I can see [Am] you're sad, even when you smile, [C] even when you [D] laugh, I can [Em] see it in your eyes.
Deep inside you wanna cry, cause you're [C] scared.
I ain't there?
[B] Daddy's with you in your [A] prayers, no more [Em] crying, wipe them tears.
Daddy's here, no more nightmares, we gon' [Am] go together through it, we gon' [G] do it.
Lanny [D] Elk was crazy, [Em] ain't he?
Yeah, but he loves you girl, and you better know it.
What do [C] we got in this world?
When it [Bm] spins, when it [D] swirls, when it [Em] whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls
looking [Am] puzzled in a daze.
I know it's confusing [D] you, [Em] daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news.
I try to [C] keep you sheltered from it, but [Bm] somehow it seems [A] the harder that I [Em] try to do that,
the more it backfires on me.
All the things [Am] growing up as daddy, daddy [G] had to see, [D] daddy don't [Em] want you to see, but
you see just as much as he did.
We did not [C] plan it to be this way, your mother and me, but [D] things have got so [Em] bad between
us, I don't see us ever being together [Am] ever again, like we used to be when we was [D] teenagers.
But [Em] then of course everything always happens for a reason, [C] I guess it was never meant to
[B] be, but it's just [D] something we have [Em] no control over, and that's what destiny is.
But [Am] no more worries, rest your head and [G] go to sleep, [D] maybe one day [Em] we'll wake up and
this'll all just be a dream.
Now watch [C] this little baby, don't you cry, [D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright.
Skipping that old bully part, [Am] little [C] lady, I told ya, daddy [D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night.
I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside.
It may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise [Em] mama's gonna be alright.
It's funny, I [C] remember back one year when daddy [Bm] had no money, [D] mommy wrapped the [Em] Christmas
presents up and stuck them under the tree until some [Am] of them were crummy, cause daddy
couldn't buy them, [D] I'll never [Em] forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying, cause daddy
felt [C] like a bum.
See daddy [F#m] had a job, but his job was to [Em] keep the food on the table for you and mom, and
at the time, [Am] every house that we lived [G] in either kept [D] getting broken [Em] into and robbed,
or shot up on the block, and your mom [C] was saving money for you in a jar, [D] tryna start
a [Em] piggy bank for you so you could go to college, almost had a [C] thousand dollars, until someone
broke in and [A] stole it, and I [Em] know it hurt so bad it broke your mama's heart, and it
seemed like [C] everything was just starting to [B] fall apart, [A] mom and [Em] dad was arguing a lot,
so mama moved back on the [Am] Thomas in the flat, one [G] bedroom apartment, [D] and dad moved [Em] back to
the other side of 8 mile on the Rara, and that's when [C] daddy went to California [G] with
his CD, [D] and met Dr.
[Em] Dre, and flew you and mama out to see me, but daddy [Am] had to work,
you and mama [A] had to leave me, then you started [Em] seeing daddy on the TV, and mama didn't like
it, [C] and you and Lainey were too young to [D] understand it, papa [Em] was a rolling stone, mama developed
a habit, and it [Am] all happened too fast for either [C] one of us to [D] grab it, I'm just [Em] sorry
you was there and had to witness it, first hand cause all I [C] ever wanted to do was just
make you proud, [D] now I'm [Em] sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing, looking [Am] at your baby
pictures, it just [C] trips me out to [D] see how much you [Em] both have grown, it's almost like
you're sisters now, [C] wow, guess you pretty much are, your daddy's [D] still here, [Em] Lainey
I'm talking to you too, daddy's still here, I [Am] like the sound of that chair, [G] it's got a
ring to it don't it, [Em] mama's only gone for the moment, now little [C] baby don't you cry,
[D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright, sniffing that old bullet box [C] little lady, I told ya, daddy
[D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night, I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know
why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside, it may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise
[Em] mama's gonna be alright, and if you ask me do daddy's [C] gonna buy you a mockingbird, [D] I'm
[Em] looking through the world, I'm gonna buy a diamond ring [C] for you, I'm gonna sing for you,
I'll do anything [D] for [Em] you to see you smile, and if that mockingbird [C] don't sing and that
ring [F#] don't shine, [D] I'm gonna break [Em] that birdies neck, I'll go back to the [C] jewelers, sold it
to ya, and make them eat [D] every carrot, [Em] don't you dare.
daddy always tell you, [A] straighten up [Em] little soldier, stiffen up that upper [Am] lip, [G] what you crying [D] about?
[Em] You got me.
Haley, I know you [C] miss your mom, and I know you [Bm] miss your dad [D] when I'm gone, but I'm [Em] trying
to give you the life that I never had.
I can see [Am] you're sad, even when you smile, [C] even when you [D] laugh, I can [Em] see it in your eyes.
Deep inside you wanna cry, cause you're [C] scared.
I ain't there?
[B] Daddy's with you in your [A] prayers, no more [Em] crying, wipe them tears.
Daddy's here, no more nightmares, we gon' [Am] go together through it, we gon' [G] do it.
Lanny [D] Elk was crazy, [Em] ain't he?
Yeah, but he loves you girl, and you better know it.
What do [C] we got in this world?
When it [Bm] spins, when it [D] swirls, when it [Em] whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls
looking [Am] puzzled in a daze.
I know it's confusing [D] you, [Em] daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news.
I try to [C] keep you sheltered from it, but [Bm] somehow it seems [A] the harder that I [Em] try to do that,
the more it backfires on me.
All the things [Am] growing up as daddy, daddy [G] had to see, [D] daddy don't [Em] want you to see, but
you see just as much as he did.
We did not [C] plan it to be this way, your mother and me, but [D] things have got so [Em] bad between
us, I don't see us ever being together [Am] ever again, like we used to be when we was [D] teenagers.
But [Em] then of course everything always happens for a reason, [C] I guess it was never meant to
[B] be, but it's just [D] something we have [Em] no control over, and that's what destiny is.
But [Am] no more worries, rest your head and [G] go to sleep, [D] maybe one day [Em] we'll wake up and
this'll all just be a dream.
Now watch [C] this little baby, don't you cry, [D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright.
Skipping that old bully part, [Am] little [C] lady, I told ya, daddy [D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night.
I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside.
It may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise [Em] mama's gonna be alright.
It's funny, I [C] remember back one year when daddy [Bm] had no money, [D] mommy wrapped the [Em] Christmas
presents up and stuck them under the tree until some [Am] of them were crummy, cause daddy
couldn't buy them, [D] I'll never [Em] forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying, cause daddy
felt [C] like a bum.
See daddy [F#m] had a job, but his job was to [Em] keep the food on the table for you and mom, and
at the time, [Am] every house that we lived [G] in either kept [D] getting broken [Em] into and robbed,
or shot up on the block, and your mom [C] was saving money for you in a jar, [D] tryna start
a [Em] piggy bank for you so you could go to college, almost had a [C] thousand dollars, until someone
broke in and [A] stole it, and I [Em] know it hurt so bad it broke your mama's heart, and it
seemed like [C] everything was just starting to [B] fall apart, [A] mom and [Em] dad was arguing a lot,
so mama moved back on the [Am] Thomas in the flat, one [G] bedroom apartment, [D] and dad moved [Em] back to
the other side of 8 mile on the Rara, and that's when [C] daddy went to California [G] with
his CD, [D] and met Dr.
[Em] Dre, and flew you and mama out to see me, but daddy [Am] had to work,
you and mama [A] had to leave me, then you started [Em] seeing daddy on the TV, and mama didn't like
it, [C] and you and Lainey were too young to [D] understand it, papa [Em] was a rolling stone, mama developed
a habit, and it [Am] all happened too fast for either [C] one of us to [D] grab it, I'm just [Em] sorry
you was there and had to witness it, first hand cause all I [C] ever wanted to do was just
make you proud, [D] now I'm [Em] sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing, looking [Am] at your baby
pictures, it just [C] trips me out to [D] see how much you [Em] both have grown, it's almost like
you're sisters now, [C] wow, guess you pretty much are, your daddy's [D] still here, [Em] Lainey
I'm talking to you too, daddy's still here, I [Am] like the sound of that chair, [G] it's got a
ring to it don't it, [Em] mama's only gone for the moment, now little [C] baby don't you cry,
[D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright, sniffing that old bullet box [C] little lady, I told ya, daddy
[D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night, I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know
why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside, it may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise
[Em] mama's gonna be alright, and if you ask me do daddy's [C] gonna buy you a mockingbird, [D] I'm
[Em] looking through the world, I'm gonna buy a diamond ring [C] for you, I'm gonna sing for you,
I'll do anything [D] for [Em] you to see you smile, and if that mockingbird [C] don't sing and that
ring [F#] don't shine, [D] I'm gonna break [Em] that birdies neck, I'll go back to the [C] jewelers, sold it
to ya, and make them eat [D] every carrot, [Em] don't you dare.
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[Em] _ [C] _ _ [Bm] [D] Yeah, [Em] I know sometimes [Am] things may not [Em] always make sense [D] to you right now, [Em] but hey, [C] your
daddy always tell you, [A] straighten up [Em] little soldier, stiffen up that upper [Am] lip, [G] what you crying [D] about?
[Em] You got me.
Haley, I know you [C] miss your mom, and I know you [Bm] miss your dad [D] when I'm gone, but I'm [Em] trying
to give you the life that I never had.
I can see [Am] you're sad, even when you smile, [C] even when you [D] laugh, I can [Em] see it in your eyes.
Deep inside you wanna cry, cause you're [C] scared.
I ain't there?
[B] Daddy's with you in your [A] prayers, no more [Em] crying, wipe them tears.
Daddy's here, no more nightmares, we gon' [Am] go together through it, we gon' [G] do it.
Lanny [D] Elk was crazy, [Em] ain't he?
Yeah, but he loves you girl, and you better know it.
What do [C] we got in this world?
When it [Bm] spins, when it [D] swirls, when it [Em] whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls
looking [Am] puzzled in a daze.
I know it's confusing [D] you, [Em] daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news.
I try to [C] keep you sheltered from it, but [Bm] somehow it seems [A] the harder that I [Em] try to do that,
the more it backfires on me.
All the things [Am] growing up as daddy, daddy [G] had to see, [D] daddy don't [Em] want you to see, but
you see just as much as he did.
We did not [C] plan it to be this way, your mother and me, but [D] things have got so [Em] bad between
us, I don't see us ever being together [Am] ever again, like we used to be when we was [D] teenagers.
But [Em] then of course everything always happens for a reason, [C] I guess it was never meant to
[B] be, but it's just [D] something we have [Em] no control over, and that's what destiny is.
But [Am] no more worries, rest your head and [G] go to sleep, [D] maybe one day [Em] we'll wake up and
this'll all just be a dream.
Now watch [C] this little baby, don't you cry, [D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright.
Skipping that old bully part, [Am] little [C] lady, I told ya, daddy [D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night.
I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside.
It may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise [Em] mama's gonna be alright.
It's funny, I [C] remember back one year when daddy [Bm] had no money, [D] mommy wrapped the [Em] Christmas
presents up and stuck them under the tree until some [Am] of them were crummy, cause daddy
couldn't buy them, [D] I'll never [Em] forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying, cause daddy
felt [C] like a bum.
See daddy [F#m] had a job, but his job was to [Em] keep the food on the table for you and mom, and
at the time, [Am] every house that we lived [G] in either kept [D] getting broken [Em] into and robbed,
or shot up on the block, and your mom [C] was saving money for you in a jar, [D] tryna start
a [Em] piggy bank for you so you could go to college, almost had a [C] thousand dollars, until someone
broke in and [A] stole it, and I [Em] know it hurt so bad it broke your mama's heart, and it
seemed like [C] everything was just starting to [B] fall apart, [A] mom and [Em] dad was arguing a lot,
so mama moved back on the [Am] Thomas in the flat, one [G] bedroom apartment, [D] and dad moved [Em] back to
the other side of 8 mile on the Rara, and that's when [C] daddy went to California [G] with
his CD, [D] and met Dr.
[Em] Dre, and flew you and mama out to see me, but daddy [Am] had to work,
you and mama [A] had to leave me, then you started [Em] seeing daddy on the TV, and mama didn't like
it, [C] and you and Lainey were too young to [D] understand it, papa [Em] was a rolling stone, mama developed
a habit, and it [Am] all happened too fast for either [C] one of us to [D] grab it, I'm just [Em] sorry
you was there and had to witness it, first hand cause all I [C] ever wanted to do was just
make you proud, [D] now I'm [Em] sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing, looking [Am] at your baby
pictures, it just [C] trips me out to [D] see how much you [Em] both have grown, it's almost like
you're sisters now, [C] wow, guess you pretty much are, your daddy's [D] still here, [Em] Lainey
I'm talking to you too, daddy's still here, I [Am] like the sound of that chair, [G] it's got a
ring to it don't it, [Em] mama's only gone for the moment, now little [C] baby don't you cry,
[D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright, sniffing that old bullet box [C] little lady, I told ya, daddy
[D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night, I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know
why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside, it may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise
[Em] mama's gonna be alright, and if you ask me do daddy's [C] gonna buy you a mockingbird, [D] I'm
[Em] looking through the world, I'm gonna buy a diamond ring [C] for you, I'm gonna sing for you,
I'll do anything [D] for [Em] you to see you smile, and if that mockingbird [C] don't sing and that
ring [F#] don't shine, [D] I'm gonna break [Em] that birdies neck, I'll go back to the [C] jewelers, sold it
to ya, and make them eat [D] every carrot, [Em] don't you dare. _
daddy always tell you, [A] straighten up [Em] little soldier, stiffen up that upper [Am] lip, [G] what you crying [D] about?
[Em] You got me.
Haley, I know you [C] miss your mom, and I know you [Bm] miss your dad [D] when I'm gone, but I'm [Em] trying
to give you the life that I never had.
I can see [Am] you're sad, even when you smile, [C] even when you [D] laugh, I can [Em] see it in your eyes.
Deep inside you wanna cry, cause you're [C] scared.
I ain't there?
[B] Daddy's with you in your [A] prayers, no more [Em] crying, wipe them tears.
Daddy's here, no more nightmares, we gon' [Am] go together through it, we gon' [G] do it.
Lanny [D] Elk was crazy, [Em] ain't he?
Yeah, but he loves you girl, and you better know it.
What do [C] we got in this world?
When it [Bm] spins, when it [D] swirls, when it [Em] whirls, when it twirls, two little beautiful girls
looking [Am] puzzled in a daze.
I know it's confusing [D] you, [Em] daddy's always on the move, mama's always on the news.
I try to [C] keep you sheltered from it, but [Bm] somehow it seems [A] the harder that I [Em] try to do that,
the more it backfires on me.
All the things [Am] growing up as daddy, daddy [G] had to see, [D] daddy don't [Em] want you to see, but
you see just as much as he did.
We did not [C] plan it to be this way, your mother and me, but [D] things have got so [Em] bad between
us, I don't see us ever being together [Am] ever again, like we used to be when we was [D] teenagers.
But [Em] then of course everything always happens for a reason, [C] I guess it was never meant to
[B] be, but it's just [D] something we have [Em] no control over, and that's what destiny is.
But [Am] no more worries, rest your head and [G] go to sleep, [D] maybe one day [Em] we'll wake up and
this'll all just be a dream.
Now watch [C] this little baby, don't you cry, [D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright.
Skipping that old bully part, [Am] little [C] lady, I told ya, daddy [D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night.
I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside.
It may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise [Em] mama's gonna be alright.
It's funny, I [C] remember back one year when daddy [Bm] had no money, [D] mommy wrapped the [Em] Christmas
presents up and stuck them under the tree until some [Am] of them were crummy, cause daddy
couldn't buy them, [D] I'll never [Em] forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying, cause daddy
felt [C] like a bum.
See daddy [F#m] had a job, but his job was to [Em] keep the food on the table for you and mom, and
at the time, [Am] every house that we lived [G] in either kept [D] getting broken [Em] into and robbed,
or shot up on the block, and your mom [C] was saving money for you in a jar, [D] tryna start
a [Em] piggy bank for you so you could go to college, almost had a [C] thousand dollars, until someone
broke in and [A] stole it, and I [Em] know it hurt so bad it broke your mama's heart, and it
seemed like [C] everything was just starting to [B] fall apart, [A] mom and [Em] dad was arguing a lot,
so mama moved back on the [Am] Thomas in the flat, one [G] bedroom apartment, [D] and dad moved [Em] back to
the other side of 8 mile on the Rara, and that's when [C] daddy went to California [G] with
his CD, [D] and met Dr.
[Em] Dre, and flew you and mama out to see me, but daddy [Am] had to work,
you and mama [A] had to leave me, then you started [Em] seeing daddy on the TV, and mama didn't like
it, [C] and you and Lainey were too young to [D] understand it, papa [Em] was a rolling stone, mama developed
a habit, and it [Am] all happened too fast for either [C] one of us to [D] grab it, I'm just [Em] sorry
you was there and had to witness it, first hand cause all I [C] ever wanted to do was just
make you proud, [D] now I'm [Em] sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing, looking [Am] at your baby
pictures, it just [C] trips me out to [D] see how much you [Em] both have grown, it's almost like
you're sisters now, [C] wow, guess you pretty much are, your daddy's [D] still here, [Em] Lainey
I'm talking to you too, daddy's still here, I [Am] like the sound of that chair, [G] it's got a
ring to it don't it, [Em] mama's only gone for the moment, now little [C] baby don't you cry,
[D] everything's [Em] gonna be alright, sniffing that old bullet box [C] little lady, I told ya, daddy
[D] said I'll hold [Em] ya through the night, I know mommy's not here [C] right now, and we don't know
why, [D] we feel [Em] how we feel inside, it may seem a little [C] crazy, pretty baby, but I [D] promise
[Em] mama's gonna be alright, and if you ask me do daddy's [C] gonna buy you a mockingbird, [D] I'm
[Em] looking through the world, I'm gonna buy a diamond ring [C] for you, I'm gonna sing for you,
I'll do anything [D] for [Em] you to see you smile, and if that mockingbird [C] don't sing and that
ring [F#] don't shine, [D] I'm gonna break [Em] that birdies neck, I'll go back to the [C] jewelers, sold it
to ya, and make them eat [D] every carrot, [Em] don't you dare. _