Key: C major
Verse 1
C
Am
C
Am
C
Hush now,
C
Am
We'll be leaving at first light.
Dm
C
Mama's buying you a mockingbird
C
Am
We'll cross the dam by morning.
Am
Dm
C
They're building down in Georgia,
F
C
And I can't tell my daughters
C
Am
C
The ones you love
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
No work for the working man,
C
Am
just one more empty man.
Dm
C
Hard times in rocking hand,
C
Am
The crows are in the kitchen,
Am
Dm
C
Our father's land of Eden
Am
F
is paradise no more
F
C
And I can't tell my daughters
Am
Dm
Am
all the things that I'm scared of
F
C
But I am not afraid of that
F
C
Dm
F
C
Am
to leave the ones you love
F
Am
C
Dm
C
Dm
F
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
My sister stayed in Eden,
Am
Dm
The agent for the county
C
Am
F
thinks that they can make a stand.
Am
C
Am
with nothing much to show.
Dm
C
It's a long life of leaving
Am
C
And the mockingbird can't sing
F
C
And I can't tell my daughters
Dm
F
to leave the ones you love
Dm
C
The ones you love
Outro 1
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
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