Mama I'm Gonna Sing chords by EJ

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Verse 1
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Em 
Yeah,
I know sometimes things may not
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Em 
always make sense to you right now
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But hey, what daddy always tell you
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Em 
Straighten up little soldier
Stiffen up that up a little
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What you crying about?
Em 
You got me  Haley,
C 
I know you miss your mom
And I know you miss your
dad when I'm gone
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But I'm trying to give
Em 
you the life that I never had
I can see you're sad,
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even when you smile,
even when you laugh
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I can see it in your eyes,
Em 
deep inside you wanna cry
Cause you're scared, I ain't there,
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daddy's with you in your prayers
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No more crying, wipe them tears,
Em 
daddy's here, no more nightmares
We gon' pull together through it,
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we gon' do it
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Lainey Uncle's crazy, ain't he?
Em 
Yeah, but he loves you girl
And you better know it,
we're all we got in this world
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When it spins, when it swirls,
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when it whirls, when it twirls
Em 
Two little beautiful girls,
looking puzzled in a daze
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I  know it's confusing you,
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daddy's always on the move
Em 
Mama's always on the news,
I try to keep you sheltered from it
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But somehow it seems the harder
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that I try to do that,
Em 
the more it backfires on me
All the things growing up as daddy
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that he had to see
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Daddy don't want you to see,
Em 
but you see just as much as he did
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We did not plan it to be this way,
your mother and me
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But things have got so bad
between us,
Em 
I don't see us ever being
together ever again
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Like we used to be
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when we was teenagers
But then of course everything
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always happens for a reason
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I guess it was never meant to be
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But it's just something we
have no control over
Em 
And that's what destiny is
But no more worries,
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rest your head and go to sleep
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Em 
Maybe one day we'll wake up
and this'll all just be a dream
Now hush little baby,
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don't you cry
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Everything's gonna be alright
Em 
Stiffen that up, pull it buck, little lady
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I told ya, daddy said I'll hold
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ya through the night
I know mommy's not here right now
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and we don't know why
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We feel how we feel inside
Em 
It  may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
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But I promise mama's gon' be alright
Em 
It's funny,
I remember back one year
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when daddy had no money
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mommy wrapped the christmas
presents up
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and  stuck them under the tree
and said some of them were from me
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cause daddy couldn't buy em
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i'll never forget that christmas
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i sat up  the whole night crying
cause daddy felt like a bum
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see daddy had a job
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Em 
but his job was to keep the food on the table
for you and mom
and at the time every house
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that we lived in
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either kept getting broken into
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and robbed or shot up on the block
and your mom was saving
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money for you in a jar
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trying to start a piggy bank for you
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so you could go to college
almost had a thousand dollars
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till someone broke in and stole it
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and I know it hurts so bad
it broke your mama's heart
and it seems like everything was
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just starting to fall apart
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Em 
mom  and dad was arguing a lot so mama
moved back on the charmers
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in a flat one -bedroom apartment
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and dad moved back to the other side
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of eight mile on Novara
and that's when daddy
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went to California
with his CD
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and met dr. Dre and flew you
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and mama out to see me
but daddy had to work you
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and mama had to leave me
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Em 
then you started seeing daddy on the TV
and momma didn't like it
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and you and Lainey were too
young to understand it
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Papa was a rolling stone,
Em 
momma developed a habit
and it all happened too fast
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for either one of us to grab it
I'm just sorry you were there
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and had to witness it first hand
cause all I ever wanted to do
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was just make you proud now
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Em 
I'm sitting in  this empty house
discriminating looking at your baby pictures
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it just trips me out to see how much
you both have grown
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it's almost like you're sisters now
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wow, I guess you pretty
much are
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and daddy's still here
Em 
Lainey, I'm talking to you too.
Daddy's still here.
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I like the sound of the chair.
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It's got a ring to it, don't it?
Em 
Shh, mama's only gone for the moment.
Now hush, little baby,
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don't you cry.
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Everything's gonna be alright.
Em 
Stiffen that up, pull it buck, little lady.
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I told ya, daddy's here to hold
ya through the night.
Em 
I know mommy's not here right now,
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and we don't know why.
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We feel how we feel inside.
Em 
It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby,
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but I promise mama's gon' be alright.
Em 
And if you ask me to,
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daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
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I'ma give you the world,
Em 
I'ma buy a diamond ring for you
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I'ma sing for you,
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I'll do anything for you to see you smile
Em 
And if that mockingbird don't sing
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and that ring don't shine
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Em 
I'ma break that birdie's neck
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I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya
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And make him eat every carrot,
Em 
don't fuck with dad