Mockingbird - Eminem, guitar chords

Published: 2018-05-09 15:00
Selection chords: Sarah Harris

Intro: Fm C# D# Fm Fm C# D# Fm

Yeah

                Fm           C#               D#
I know sometimes things may not always make sense
               Fm
to you right now
       Fm                   C#
But hey, what daddy always tell you?
           D#          Fm
Straighten up little soldier
            Fm           C#
Stiffen up that upper lip
           D#      Fm
What you crying about? You got me.

Verse:
           Fm                             C#
Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad
          D#                                   Fm
When Iʼm gone but Iʼm trying to give you the life
Fm
that I never had
       Fm                             C#
I can see youʼre sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
D#                        Fm
I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry
 Fm
ʼCause youʼre scared, I ainʼt there?
 C#
Daddyʼs with you in your prayers
 D#                              Fm
No more crying, wipe them tears. Daddyʼs here, no more nightmares
Fm                              C#
We gonʼ pull together through it, we gonʼ do it
                 D#
Lainie Uncleʼs crazy, ainʼt he? Yeah,
        Fm
but he loves you girl and you better know it
     Fm                         C#
Weʼre all we got in this world when it spins, when it swirls
  D#                            Fm
When it whirls, when it twirls. Two little beautiful girls
Fm                     C#
Lookinʼ puzzled, in a daze I know itʼs confusing you
 D#                     Fm
Daddyʼs always on the move, mammaʼs always on the news
    Fm                          C#
I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
             D#                         Fm
The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me
          Fm                  C#
All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see
 D#                        Fm
Daddy donʼt want you to see but you see just as much as he did
       Fm                          C#
We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me
                 D#
But things have got so bad between us.
         Fm                  Fm
I donʼt see us ever being together ever again
        C#                       D#
Like we used to be when we was teenagers
                   Fm
But then of course everything always happens for a reason
Fm              C#
I guess it was never meant to be
                         D#
But itʼs just something we have no control over
   Fm
and thatʼs what destiny is
    Fm                C#
But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
      D#                           Fm
Maybe one day weʼll wake up and this will all just be a dream

Chorus:
    Fm                 C#
Now hush little baby, donʼt you cry
       D#                 Fm
Everythingʼs gonna be alright
                       Fm                  C#
Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
                 D#         Fm
Daddyʼs here to hold ya through the night
                    Fm                    C#
I know mommyʼs not here right now and we donʼt know why
    D#           Fm
We fear how we feel inside
                      Fm            C#
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
               D#          Fm
But I promise mamaʼs gonʼ be alright

Verse:
          Fm                  C#
Ha! Itʼs funny I remember back one year when daddy had no money
          D#                         Fm
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
          Fm                  C#
And stuck ʼem under the tree and said some of ʼem were from me
          D#              Fm
ʼCause daddy couldnʼt buy ʼem
          Fm                  C#
Iʼll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
          D#                                   Fm
ʼCause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
          Fm                  C#
But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
          D#                               Fm
And at the time every house that we lived in
          Fm                  C#
Either kept getting broken into and robbed
          D#                                   Fm
Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money
Fm
for you in a jar
          Fm                  C#
Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
          D#                                   Fm
Almost had a thousand dollars ʼtil someone broke in and stole it
          Fm                  C#
And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mammaʼs heart
          D#                                   Fm
And it seemed like everything was just startinʼ to fall apart
          Fm                  C#
Mom and dad was arguinʼ a lot so momma moved back
          D#                                   Fm
On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
          Fm                  C#
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
          D#                                   Fm
And thatʼs when daddy went to California with his CD,
Fm
and met Dr. Dre
          Fm                  C#
And flew you and momma out to see me
          D#                                   Fm
But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
          Fm                  C#
Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V.
C#
and momma didnʼt like it
          D#                                   Fm
And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it
          Fm                  C#
Papa was a rollinʼ stone, momma developed a habit
          D#                                   Fm
And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
          Fm                  C#
Iʼm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
          D#                                   Fm
ʼCause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
          Fm                  C#
Now Iʼm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing
          D#                                   Fm
Lookinʼ at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
          Fm                  C#
To see how much you both have grown,
C#
itʼs almost like youʼre sisters now
          D#                                   Fm
Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddyʼs still here
          Fm                  C#
Lainnie Iʼm talkinʼ to you too, daddyʼs still here
          D#                 Fm
I like the sound of that, yeah
          Fm                 C#
Itʼs got a ring to it donʼt it?
          D#                       Fm
Shh, mamaʼs only gone for the moment

Chorus:
    Fm                 C#
Now hush little baby, donʼt you cry
       D#                 Fm
Everythingʼs gonna be alright
                       Fm                  C#
Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
                 D#         Fm
Daddyʼs here to hold ya through the night
                    Fm                    C#
I know mommyʼs not here right now and we donʼt know why
    D#           Fm
We fear how we feel inside
                      Fm            C#
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
               D#          Fm
But I promise mamaʼs gonʼ be alright
                      Fm                      C#
And if you ask me to Daddyʼs gonna buy you a mockingbird
       D#            Fm
Iʼmma give you the world
                     Fm                 C#
Iʼmma buy a diamond ring for you Iʼmma sing for you
                  D#                   Fm
Iʼll do anything for you to see you smile
                    Fm                       C#
And if that mockingbird donʼt sing and that ring donʼt shine
        D#                  Fm
Iʼmma break that birdieʼs neck
                     Fm                  C#
Iʼll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
                        D#                     Fm
And make him eat every carat donʼt fuck with dad (ha-ha)