Clean Bandit - Rockabye ft. Sean Paul & Anne Marie

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
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going through frustration
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Clean Bandit, Sean-da-Paul, Anne-Marie
sing meng dem hear

Verse I
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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
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ever gonna hurt you, love
Em Am
I’m gonna give you all of my love
F G Em
Nobody matters like you’
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She tells him ‘your life ain’t gonna
G
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’

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

Verse II
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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
Em
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
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year and to year
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And you give the youth love
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beyond compare
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You find his school fee
Em
and the bus fare
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Mmm Marie, the paps’ disappear
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In the round back can’t
Em
find him nowhere
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Steadily you work flow,
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everything you know
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You know say you nuh stop the
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time fi a jear

Bridge
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Now she gotta a six year old
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Trying to keep him warm
Em Am
Trying to keep out the cold
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When he looks in her eyes
G Em
He don’t know he’s safe

Pre-Chorus
Am F
When she says ‘ooh, love, no one’s
G
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
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
Rockabye, no (rockabye,
Em
rock-a rock-a rockabye)
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Rockabye, (rockabye,
Em
rock-a rock-a rockabye)
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Rockabye, don’t but a cry
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Lift up your head, lift it
Em
up to the sky
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Rockabye, don’t but a cry
G
Angels are wrong, you
Em
just dry your eyes

Bridge
Am F
Now she gotta a six year old
G
Trying to keep him warm
Em F
Trying to keep out the cold
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When he looks her in the eyes
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He don’t know he’s safe when she says

Pre-Chorus
Am F
She tells him ‘ooh, love, no one’s
G
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
She tells him ‘your life ain’t gonna
G
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’

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
Rockabye (rockabye, don’t but a cry.
G
Lift up your head, lift it
Em
up to the sky)
Am F
Rockabye (rockabye, don’t but a cry.
G
Angels are wrong, you
Em
just dry your eyes)
Am F
Rockabye (rockabye, don’t but a cry.
G
Lift up your head, lift it
Em
up to the sky)
Am F
Rockabye (rockabye, don’t but a cry.
G
Angels are wrong, you
Em
just dry your eyes)

Outro Am F G C
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