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[Verse 1]
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Hush now, don't you wake up
G Em
We'll be leaving at first light
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Mama's buying you a mockingbird
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To lull you through the night
[Verse 2]
G Em
We'll cross the Dan by morning
G Em
Here's a blanket for you to share
Am G
They're building down in Georgia
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Daddy hears he'll find work there
[Chorus]
Am G
And the mockingbird can't sing
Bm C
Like the crying of a dove
Am G
And I can't tell my daughters
Em
All the things that I'm scared of
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But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above
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Dying's just another way to leave the ones you love
[Verse 3]
G Em
No work for the working man
G Em
Just one more empty mill
Am G
Hard times in Rockingham
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Hard times harder still
[Verse 4]
G Em
The crows are in the kitchen
G Em
The wolves at the door
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Our fathers' land of Eden is paradise no more
[Chorus]
Am G
And the mockingbird can't sing
Bm C
Like the crying of a dove
Am G
And I can't tell my daughters
Em
All the things that I'm scared of
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But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above
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Dying's just another way to leave the ones you love
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
G Em
My sister stayed in Eden
G Em
Her husband's got some land
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An agent for the county thinks that they might make a stand
[Verse 6]
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A hard life of working
G Em
With nothing much to show
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A long life of leaving with nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Am G
And the mockingbird can't sing
Bm C
Like the crying of a dove
Am G
And I can't tell my daughters
Em
All the things that I'm scared of
C G Bm C
But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above
Am G Bm C
Dying's just another way to leave the ones you love
[Outro]
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