Being a Mockingbird chords by Bobby Long

SimplifiedD · Bm · F# · G · A …

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Dsus4

Intro 1

Verse 1
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The night it rests like a hammer blow
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A 
And breaks the morning it brings
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The mad men are down on
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the crypt floor
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A 
D 
Sleeping through their favors and sins

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Verse 2

I trained myself to be hardened

And greet the bird like the day

I soared to greet lusty gambling's

And drenched myself

in the dusk where they lay

Verse 3
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G 
I exchanged the dark for the darkness
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A 
And hung     the belt from the wing
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So the traitors may part
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with their malice
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A 
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But I'll remember everything

Verse 4
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D 
I stood up and danced round the heckles
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A 
And planted the leaf from the book
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F# 
Bm 
I admit I love my ro
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mances
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A 
The blackbird, the wren, the rook

Interlude 1

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The church

Verse 5
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house won't harbor
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the coffins
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A 
But the docks they whittle their ships
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To the pleasure the feast
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And the memory and the
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A 
D 
soar of kissing her lips

Verse 6
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D 
I gave up myself to the dawning
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A 
Of the morning bird in first flight
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F# 
I thought I ran the road
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G 
of the pauper
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G 
I lost it all in the night