Rockabye (CHORDS) by Clean Bandit

[Intro]~
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Call it love and devotion

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Call it the mom’s adoration

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Foundation

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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


[Verse 1]~
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She works the night, by the water

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She's gonna stress, so far away

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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

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She's got to save him (daily struggle)


[Pre-Chorus]~
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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

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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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So, Rockabye baby, Rockabye

~Em
I'm gonna rock you

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Rockabye baby, don't you cry

~Em
Somebody's got you

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Rockabye baby, Rockabye

~Em
I'm gonna rock you

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Rockabye baby, don't you cry

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Rockabye, no (rockabye, rock-a rock-a rockabye)

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Rockabye, (rockabye, rock-a rock-a rockabye)


[Verse 2]~
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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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Mmm Marie, the paps' disappear

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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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Now she gotta a six year old

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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

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He don't know he's safe


[Pre-Chorus]~
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When she says "ooh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love

~Em                        ~Am
I'm gonna give you all of my love

~F                   ~G      ~Em
Nobody matters like you"


[Chorus]~
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So, Rockabye baby, Rockabye

~Em
I'm gonna rock you

~Am       ~F                ~G
Rockabye baby, don't you cry

~Em
Somebody's got you

~Am       ~F          ~G
Rockabye baby, Rockabye

~Em
I'm gonna rock you

~Am       ~F                ~G
Rockabye baby, don't you cry

      ~Am   ~F     ~G           ~Em
Rockabye, no (rockabye, rock-a rock-a rockabye)

    ~Am   ~F   ~G           ~Em
Rockabye, (rockabye, rock-a rock-a rockabye)

~Am        ~F
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


[Verse 3]~
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Now she gotta a six year old

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Trying to keep him warm

~Em                     ~F
Trying to keep out the cold

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When he looks her in the eyes

~E
He don't know he's safe when she says


[Pre-Chorus]~
               ~Am         ~F                        ~G
She tells him "ooh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love

~Em                        ~Am
I'm gonna give you all of my love

~F                   ~G      ~Em
Nobody matters like you"

               ~Am        ~F                           ~G
She tells him "your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life

~Em                           ~Am
You're gonna grow and have a good life

~F                      ~G      ~Em
I'm gonna do what I've got to do"


[Chorus]~
    ~Am       ~F           ~G
So, Rockabye baby, Rockabye

~Em
I'm gonna rock you

~Am       ~F                ~G
Rockabye baby, don't you cry

~Em
Somebody's got you

~Am       ~F          ~G
Rockabye baby, Rockabye

~Em
I'm gonna rock you

~Am       ~F                ~G  ~Em
Rockabye baby, don't you cry

      ~Am             ~F               ~G                          ~Em
Rockabye (rockabye, don't but a cry. Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky)

     ~Am             ~F                ~G                     ~Em
Rockabye (rockabye, don't but a cry. Angels are wrong, you just dry your eyes)

      ~Am             ~F               ~G                          ~Em
Rockabye (rockabye, don't but a cry. Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky)

     ~Am             ~F                ~G                     ~Em
Rockabye (rockabye, don't but a cry. Angels are wrong, you just dry your eyes)


[Outro]~
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