Mockingbird (Greatest Hits 2 Version)-Toby Keith/Krystal Covell

[00:01.64] [00:02.64]Yeah [00:04.50]I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now [00:10.10]But hey, what daddy always tell you? [00:13.76]Straighten up little soldier [00:16.17]Stiffen up that upper lip [00:19.00]What you crying about? [00:20.89]You got me [00:21.51] [00:22.13]Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad [00:24.98]Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had [00:28.04]I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh [00:31.07]I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry [00:33.79]Cuz you're scared, I ain't there? [00:35.21]Daddy's with you in your prayers [00:36.60]No more crying, wipe them tears [00:37.97]Daddy's here, no more nightmares [00:39.42]We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it [00:41.55]Laney uncles crazy, aint he? [00:43.27]Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it [00:45.19]We're all we got in this world [00:46.54]When it spins, when it swirls [00:47.87]When it whirls, when it twirls [00:49.31]Two little beautiful girls [00:50.77]Lookin' puzzled, in a daze [00:52.09]I know it's confusing you [00:53.51]Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news [00:56.32]I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems [00:58.82]The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me [01:01.62]All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see [01:04.53]Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did [01:07.48]We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me [01:09.99]But things have gotten so bad between us [01:11.59]I don't see us ever being together ever again [01:14.50]Like we used to be when we was teenagers [01:16.22]But then of course everything always happens for a reason [01:19.13]I guess it was never meant to be [01:20.95]But it's just something we have no control [01:22.76]over and that's what destiny is [01:24.61]But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep [01:27.12]Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream [01:29.85] [01:30.15]Now hush little baby, don't you cry [01:32.86]Everything's gonna be alright [01:34.85]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya [01:38.07]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night [01:40.54]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [01:44.28]We feel how we feel inside [01:46.24]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [01:48.95]But i promise momma's gon' be alright [01:51.64] [01:52.09]It's funny [01:52.55]I remember back one year when daddy had no money [01:55.36]Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up [01:57.11]And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me [01:59.72]Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em [02:01.12]I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying [02:03.92]Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job [02:06.58]But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom [02:09.42]And at the time every house that we lived in [02:11.80]Either kept getting broke into and robbed [02:13.89]Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar [02:17.95]Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college [02:20.71]Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it [02:23.96]And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart [02:26.53]And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart [02:29.43]Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back [02:32.41]On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment [02:35.23]And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara [02:37.76]And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre [02:41.80]And flew you and momma out to see me [02:43.52]But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me [02:46.28]Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it [02:49.67]And you and Laney were to young to understand it [02:52.27]Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit [02:55.11]And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it [02:57.89]I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand [03:00.59]Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud [03:03.33]Now I'm sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing [03:06.43]Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out [03:08.70]To see how much you both have grown, [03:10.09]it's almost like you're sisters now [03:11.91]Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here [03:15.12]Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here [03:17.94]I like the sound of that, yeah [03:19.39]It's got a ring to it don't it? [03:20.82]Shh, momma's only gone for the moment [03:22.76] [03:23.13]Now hush little baby, don't you cry [03:25.82]Everything's gonna be alright [03:27.80]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya [03:30.93]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night [03:33.47]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why [03:37.16]We feel how we feel inside [03:39.12]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby [03:41.85]But i promise momma's gon' be alright [03:44.58] [03:44.88]And if you ask me too [03:45.85]Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird [03:48.54]I'mma give you the world [03:50.42]I'mma buy a diamond ring for you [03:52.26]I'mma sing for you [03:53.24]I'll do anything for you to see you smile [03:56.32]And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine [03:59.61]I'mma break that birdies neck [04:01.65]I'd go back to the jewler who sold it to ya [04:04.47]And make him eat every carat don't **** with dad (haha) [04:07.17]