the mockingbird & THE CROW

[Intro]
 
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G
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[Verse 1]
 
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I grew up in a little town named after another
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Catching bass and cutting grass is how I spent my summers
  F
I know it sounds cliche, but it's how I was raised
    C
And I got my first guitar from a pawn shop off of poplar
G
Picked up Sweet Home Alabama, and Smoke On The Water
    F
And that's what got me out
F
It's crazy thinking now
 
 
[Chorus 1]
 
      C
I'm a mockingbird
                                    G
Singing songs that sound like other songs you've heard
                                          Dm
Like Friday nights and headlights on some backroad red dirt, and how Mississippi's home
     F
I've always been a mockingbird but
                                  C
Now I'm a mockingbird with a microphone
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
  C
I found myself a contract down on Sixteenth Avenue
G
Writing songs for anyone about anything I knew
         F
And I've come a long long way
        F
But one thing hasn't changed
 
 
[Chorus 1]
 
      C
I'm a mockingbird
                                    G
Singing songs that sound like other songs you've heard
                                          Dm
Like Friday nights and headlights on some backroad red dirt, and how Mississippi's home
     F
I've always been a mockingbird but
                                  C
Now I'm a mockingbird with a microphone
 
 
[Tag]
 
                          G                  Dm
A mockingbird with a microphone, with a microphone, with a microphone,
            C
With a microphone
 
 
[Break]
 
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D#  F  C
 
 
[Pre-Chorus 1]
 
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Do this, do that, that shirt, this hat
D#
Don't forget to smile
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Kiss the ring once in a while
C
Don't say, those words, put down your finger
D#
Throw in a slow love song or two
F
Well fuck that, and fuck you 'cause
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
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The way I sing may not be pretty
                         F
May not be music to your ears
                                      F
But when these wings roll through your city
                        C
My last name is all you hear
                   D#
And I refuse to be another
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Mockingbird with a microphone
                              F
I'll fly the line I choose to brother
                          C
Even if that makes me the crow
C
The crow, the crow
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Even if that makes me the crow
              F
The crow, the crow, the crow
 
 
[Break]
 
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[Pre-Chorus 2]
 
C
Well do that, do this, unclench your fist
D#
You're too loud, you're too proud it won't work
F
Well tell that to twenty five thousand
   N.C.
Rednecks with my dumb face on their T-shirt
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
C                         D#
The way I sing may not be pretty
                         F
May not be music to your ears
                                      F
But when these wings roll through your city
                        C
My last name is all you hear
                   D#
And I refuse to be another
                        F
Mockingbird with a microphone
                              F
I'll fly the line I choose to brother
                          C
Even if that makes me the crow
C
The crow, the crow
                          D#
Even if that makes me the crow
              F
The crow, the crow, the crow
 
 
[Solo]
 
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D#   F
 
 
[Chorus 3]
 
     C
I'm a mockingbird
                                    D#
Singing songs that sound like other songs you've heard
                                          F
Like friday nights and headlights on some backroad red dirt, and how Mississippi's home
     F
I've always been a mockingbird but
                                  C
Now I'm a mockingbird and I'm the crow