Mockingbird Hill

Midi (C169)
Tabbed by Mark Purintun from "G"
Play in "D" per Gene

                                                                                                  


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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee  
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it gives me a thrill to wake up in the morning to the mockingbird's trill.
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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee there's peace and good will.
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You're welcome as the flowers on the mockingbird hill.

Verse 1:
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When the sun in the morning peeps over the hill
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And kisses the roses 'round my window sill.
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Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill
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Of the birds in the treetops on Mockingbird Hill.

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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee  
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it gives me a thrill to wake up in the morning to the mockingbird's trill.
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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee there's peace and good will.
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You're welcome as the flowers on the mockingbird hill.

Verse 2:
Got a three-cornered plow and an acre to till
And a mule that I bought for a ten-dollar bill
There's a tumble-down shack and a rusty old mill
But it's my Home Sweet Home up on Mockingbird Hill
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee dee

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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee  
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it gives me a thrill to wake up in the morning to the mockingbird's trill.
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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee there's peace and good will.
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You're welcome as the flowers on the mockingbird hill.

Verse 3:
When it's late in the evening I climb up the hill
And survey all my kingdom while everything's still
Only me and the sky and an old whippoorwill
Singin' songs in the twilight on Mockingbird Hill

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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee  
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it gives me a thrill to wake up in the morning to the mockingbird's trill.
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Tra la la, twiddle-dee dee-dee there's peace and good will.
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You're welcome as the flowers on the mockingbird hill.     
 

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