Mockingbird — Ruston Kelly
Chords and lyrics for Mockingbird by Ruston Kelly (key of C).
Verse 1
Intro part changed to include the changing bass notes and the chords Ruston
plays before the verse.
Pretty much every time the Am7 is played he plays the riff thing.
Intro
Am7 riff
[C] [G] [D] [Em] [D]
[C] [G] [D] [Em] [D]
[Am7] [Am7]
Verse 1
[D] Pretty wings, you're the prettiest thing
You're like [C] Parker Posey in a magazine
With [G] faded jeans and a crop top back in [Am7]'93
[D] I wanna be your dressed-in-black
Your [C] dark star with a backwards hat
I'm gonna [G] write a book and put your name on every [Am7]page
Every [C]page
Chorus
[C] Hey pretty little [G]mockingbird
[D] Keep singin' them [Em]sad, [D]sad [C]songs
There's already [G]rain on my window
[D] I'm dyin' when the [Em]morning [D]comes
[C] Flew away in the [G]night with the raven
[D] Now I'm underneath the [Em]willows [D]hangin'
[C] I'm too strung [G]out to be upside [D]down
[C]Pretty little [D]mockingbird, sing[Am7] me a song
Verse 2
[D] I was the desert, honey, you were the sand
[C] I was a bird, baby, you were the branch
[G] And I flew into the blue and watched those [Am7]flow-ers dyin'
[D] It wasn't much, just everything
You could've [C] sat right there and got high with me
But you [G] fell asleep and your dreamin' brought [Am7] the nightmares
[C] Brought the nightmares
Chorus
[C] Hey pretty little [G]mockingbird
[D] Keep singin' them [Em]sad, [D]sad [C]songs
There's already [G]rain on my window
[D] I'm dyin' when the [Em]morning [D]comes
[C] Flew away in the [G]night with the raven
[D] Now I'm underneath the [Em]willows [D]hangin'
[C] I'm too strung [G]out to be upside [D]down
[C]Pretty little [D]mockingbird, sing[Am7] me a song
Solo
[C] [G] [D] [Em] [D]
Chorus
[C] Hey pretty little [G]mockingbird
[D] Keep singin' them [Em]sad, [D]sad [C]songs
There's already [G]rain on my window
[D] I'm dyin' when the [Em]morning [D]comes
[C] Flew away in the [G]night with the raven
[D] Now I'm underneath the [Em]willows [D]hangin'
[C] I'm too strung [G]out to be upside [D]down
[C]Pretty little [D]mockingbird, [C]pretty little [D]mockingbird
Sing[Am7] me a song[Am7]
[Am7] [Am7]
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