B _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Em _ _ _
C _ _
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D Em Yeah, I know sometimes,
Am those may not
Em always make sense
D to you right now,
Em.
but hey,
C what.
daddy always
Am tell you, 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
Em I'm trying.
to give you the life that I never had.
I can see you
Am sad, even when you smile, 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
Am gon' hold each other.
through it, we
G gon' do it, nanny
D uncle's
Em crazy, ain't he.
Yeah, but he loves you girl, and you better know it.
What
C all we got in this world, when it
Bm spins, when it
D swirls, when it
Em twirls, when it twirls,.
two little beautiful girls, looking
Am puzzled in a daze, I know it's confusing
D you,
Em daddy's.
always gonna move, mama's always gonna news, I try
C to keep you self in common, but
F#m somehow.
it seems the harder that
Em I try to do that, the more it backfires on me, all the things.
Am growing up as daddy, that
G he 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
G mother and me,
D but things have got.
Em so bad between us, I don't see us ever being together
Am ever again, like we used
Em to be when.
we
D was teenagers,
Em but then of course everything always happens for a reason,
C I guess it was.
never meant
Bm to be, but it's just
A something we
Em have no control over, and that's what destiny.
is,
Am but no more worries, rest your head
G and go to sleep,
D maybe one day
Em we'll wake up and.
this'll all just be a dream, now watch
C little baby, don't you cry,
D Em everything's gonna be.
alright, sniffing that up on them
C puffed little kitties, I told ya, daddy
D said I'll
Em hold ya.
through the night, I know mommy's not here
C right now, and we don't know
D why, we feel.
Em how we feeling 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.
Em the Christmas presents up and stuck them under the tree until some
Am of them were from me,.
cause daddy couldn't buy
D them, I'll never
Em forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole.
night crying cause daddy
C felt like a bum, see daddy
Bm had a job,
A but his job was
Em to keep.
the food on the table for you and mom, and at the
Am time, every house that we
G lived in.
either
D kept getting broken
Em into and robbed, or shot up on the block, and your
C mom was.
saving money for you in a jar,
D trying to start
Em a piggy bank for you so you could go to college,.
almost had
C a thousand dollars, until someone broke in
D and stole it, and
Em I know it hurt.
so bad it broke your mama's heart, and it seemed
C like everything was just starting
Bm to.
fall apart,
A mom
Em and dad was arguing a lot, so mama moved back on the
Am Thomas and the flat,.
one
G bedroom
D apartment, and dad moved
Em back to the other side of 8 mile on Novara, and.
that's
C when daddy went to California with his TV,
D and met Dr.
Em Dre, and flew you and.
mama out to see me, but daddy
Am had to work, you and mama
Em had to leave me,
A then you started.
Em seeing daddy on the TV, and mama didn't like
C it, and you and Lainey were too young to
D understand.
it, papa
Em was a rolling stone, mama developed a habit, and
Am it all happened too fast for.
either
C one of us
D to grab it, I'm
Em just sorry you were there and had to witness it, for.
saying cause all
C I ever wanted to do was just make you
D proud, now
Em I'm sitting in this empty.
house, just reminiscing, looking
Am at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
D to see how.
much
Em you both have grown, it's almost like you're sisters now,
C wow, guess you pretty.
much are,
D daddy's still here,
Em Lainey I'm talking to you too, daddy's still here,
Am I.
like the sound of that chair,
G it's got a ring
D to it don't it,
Em.
mama's only gone for the moment,.
now,
C little baby don't you cry,
D Em everything's gonna be alright, skipping that up on the.
park
C little lady, I told ya, daddy
D said I'll
Em hold ya, who then died, I know mommy's not.
here
C right now, and we don't know
D why, 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,
C daddy's.
gonna buy you a
D mockingbird,
Em I'm looking for the world, I'm gonna buy a diamond ring
C for.
you, I'm gonna sing for you, I'll do
D anything for
Em you to see you smile, and if that mockingbird.
C don't sing and that ring don't shine,
D I'm gonna
Em break that birdie's neck, I'll go back to.
the
C jewel, I sold it to ya, and they can
D meet every
Em character,