Rockabye (video)

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Call it love and devotion, call it the mom’s

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adoration, foundation, a special bond of creation, hah.

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For all the single mums out there going through frustration,

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Clean Bandit, Sean-da-Paul, Anne-Marie.

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1. She works the night, by the water,

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she's gone astray, so far away from her father's daughter.

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She just wants a life for her baby,

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all on her own, no one will come, she's got to save him.

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She tells him, "Ooh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love,

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I'm gonna give you all of my love, nobody matters like you."

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She tells him, "Your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life,

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you're gonna grow and have a good life,

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I'm gonna do what I've got to do."

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So, rockabye, baby, rockabye, I'm gonna rock you,

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rockabye, baby, don't you cry, somebody's got you.

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Rockabye, baby, rockabye, I'm gonna rock you,

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rockabye, baby, don't you cry !

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+ Rockabye ! Rockabye !

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2. Single mama, you doing out there,

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facing the hard life, without no fear.

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Just so you know that you really care,

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’cause any obstacle come you’re well prepared.

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And, no, mama, you never shed tear.

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’cause you have to set things year and to year,

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and you give the youth love beyond compare,

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you find his school fee and the bus fare.

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Mm, Marie, the paps' disappeared,

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in the round back can’t find him nowhere,

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steadily you work flow, everything you know,

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you know say you nuh stop the time fi a jear.

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3. Now she gotta a six year old, trying to keep him warm,

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trying to keep out the cold.

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When he looks in her eyes, he don't know he's safe.

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When she says, "Ooh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love,

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I'm gonna give you all of my love, nobody matters like you !"

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So, rockabye, baby, rockabye, I'm gonna rock you,

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rockabye, baby, don't you cry, somebody's got you.

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Rockabye, baby, rockabye, I'm gonna rock you,

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rockabye, baby, don't you cry !

+ Am - F - G - Em (2x)

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+ Rockabye, don't but a cry,

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lift up your head, lift it up to the sky.

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Rockabye, don't but a cry,

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angels are wrong, you just dry your eyes.

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4. Now she gotta a six year old, trying to keep him warm,

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trying to keep out the cold. When he looks her in the eyes,

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he don't know he's safe when she says. - - -

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She tells him, "Ooh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love,

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I'm gonna give you all of my love, nobody matters like you."

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She tells him, "Your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life,

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you're gonna grow and have a good life,

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I'm gonna do what I've got to do." + CHORUS

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+ Rockabye ! Rockabye ! (2x)

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+ Rockabye ! Rockabye !

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(Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie)