Key: C major
Intro 1
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
Verse 1
C
Am
We'll be leaving at first light.
Dm
C
Mama's buying you a mockingbird
Em
F
to lull you through the night.
C
Am
We'll cross the dam by morning,
C
Am
here's a blanket for you to shake
Dm
C
They're building down in Georgia,
Em
F
daddy hears we'll find work there
F
C
I can't tell my daughters
F
C
I am not afraid of that bright
Em
F
to leave the ones you love
C
Am
C
Am
The ones you love
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
They'll work for the working man,
C
Am
just one more empty mill.
Dm
C
Hard times in Rockingham,
Em
F
hard times harder still.
C
Am
Crows are in the kitchen,
Am
Dm
C
Our father's land of Eden
Em
F
is paradise no more
F
C
I can't tell my daughters
F
C
I'm not afraid of that bright
Em
F
C
Dm
F
C
to leave the ones you love
Am
F
C
Dm
C
Em
F
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
My sister stayed in Eden
C
Am
Her husband's got some land
C
Em
F
thinks that they can make us stand
Am
C
Am
with nothing much to show
Dm
C
It's a long life of leaving
Em
F
with nowhere to go
C
F
C
And the mockingbird can't sing
F
C
I can't tell my daughters
F
C
I am not afraid of that bright
Em
F
to be the ones you love
C
Am
Oh, won't you love?
Outro 1
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
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