Published: 2018-05-09 15:00 Selection chords: Sarah Harris
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Intro: D#mBC#D#mD#mBC#D#m
Yeah
D#mBC#
I know sometimes things may not always make sense
D#m
to you right now
D#mB
But hey, what daddy always tell you?
C#D#m
Straighten up little soldier
D#mB
Stiffen up that upper lip
C#D#m
What you crying about? You got me.
Verse:
D#mB
Hailie, I know you miss your mom, and I know you miss your dad
C#D#m
When Iʼm gone but Iʼm trying to give you the life
D#m
that I never had
D#mB
I can see youʼre sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
C#D#m
I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry
D#m
ʼCause youʼre scared, I ainʼt there?
B
Daddyʼs with you in your prayers
C#D#m
No more crying, wipe them tears. Daddyʼs here, no more nightmares
D#mB
We gonʼ pull together through it, we gonʼ do it
C#
Lainie Uncleʼs crazy, ainʼt he? Yeah,
D#m
but he loves you girl and you better know it
D#mB
Weʼre all we got in this world when it spins, when it swirls
C#D#m
When it whirls, when it twirls. Two little beautiful girls
D#mB
Lookinʼ puzzled, in a daze I know itʼs confusing you
C#D#m
Daddyʼs always on the move, mammaʼs always on the news
D#mB
I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
C#D#m
The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me
D#mB
All the things growing up as daddy, that he had to see
C#D#m
Daddy donʼt want you to see but you see just as much as he did
D#mB
We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me
C#
But things have got so bad between us.
D#mD#m
I donʼt see us ever being together ever again
BC#
Like we used to be when we was teenagers
D#m
But then of course everything always happens for a reason
D#mB
I guess it was never meant to be
C#
But itʼs just something we have no control over
D#m
and thatʼs what destiny is
D#mB
But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
C#D#m
Maybe one day weʼll wake up and this will all just be a dream
Chorus:
D#mB
Now hush little baby, donʼt you cry
C#D#m
Everythingʼs gonna be alright
D#mB
Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
C#D#m
Daddyʼs here to hold ya through the night
D#mB
I know mommyʼs not here right now and we donʼt know why
C#D#m
We fear how we feel inside
D#mB
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
C#D#m
But I promise mamaʼs gonʼ be alright
Verse:
D#mB
Ha! Itʼs funny I remember back one year when daddy had no money
C#D#m
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
D#mB
And stuck ʼem under the tree and said some of ʼem were from me
C#D#m
ʼCause daddy couldnʼt buy ʼem
D#mB
Iʼll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
C#D#m
ʼCause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
D#mB
But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
C#D#m
And at the time every house that we lived in
D#mB
Either kept getting broken into and robbed
C#D#m
Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money
D#m
for you in a jar
D#mB
Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
C#D#m
Almost had a thousand dollars ʼtil someone broke in and stole it
D#mB
And I know it hurts so bad it broke your mammaʼs heart
C#D#m
And it seemed like everything was just startinʼ to fall apart
D#mB
Mom and dad was arguinʼ a lot so momma moved back
C#D#m
On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
D#mB
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
C#D#m
And thatʼs when daddy went to California with his CD,
D#m
and met Dr. Dre
D#mB
And flew you and momma out to see me
C#D#m
But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
D#mB
Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V.
B
and momma didnʼt like it
C#D#m
And you and Lainnie were too young to understand it
D#mB
Papa was a rollinʼ stone, momma developed a habit
C#D#m
And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
D#mB
Iʼm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
C#D#m
ʼCause all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
D#mB
Now Iʼm sitting in this empty house, just reminiscing
C#D#m
Lookinʼ at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
D#mB
To see how much you both have grown,
B
itʼs almost like youʼre sisters now
C#D#m
Wow, I guess you pretty much are and daddyʼs still here
D#mB
Lainnie Iʼm talkinʼ to you too, daddyʼs still here
C#D#m
I like the sound of that, yeah
D#mB
Itʼs got a ring to it donʼt it?
C#D#m
Shh, mamaʼs only gone for the moment
Chorus:
D#mB
Now hush little baby, donʼt you cry
C#D#m
Everythingʼs gonna be alright
D#mB
Stiffen that upper lip up, little lady, I told ya
C#D#m
Daddyʼs here to hold ya through the night
D#mB
I know mommyʼs not here right now and we donʼt know why
C#D#m
We fear how we feel inside
D#mB
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
C#D#m
But I promise mamaʼs gonʼ be alright
D#mB
And if you ask me to Daddyʼs gonna buy you a mockingbird
C#D#m
Iʼmma give you the world
D#mB
Iʼmma buy a diamond ring for you Iʼmma sing for you
C#D#m
Iʼll do anything for you to see you smile
D#mB
And if that mockingbird donʼt sing and that ring donʼt shine
C#D#m
Iʼmma break that birdieʼs neck
D#mB
Iʼll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
C#D#m
And make him eat every carat donʼt fuck with dad (ha-ha)
