Mockingbird

Album: Mockingbird (1963)
Charted: 33 7
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  • Mock (yeah)
    Ing (yeah)
    Bird (yeah)
    Yeah (yeah)
    Mockingbird

    Everybody have you heard?
    He's gonna buy me a mockingbird
    Oh if that mockingbird don't sing
    He's gonna buy me a diamond ring
    And if that diamond ring won't shine
    He's gonna surely break this heart of mine
    And that's why I keep on tellin' everybody
    Yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Everybody have you heard? (I I, I know what I came)
    He's gonna buy me a mockingbird (let you know)
    If that mockingbird don't sing (and I I I, I love you)
    He's gonna buy me a diamond ring (and ?) (but I)
    And if that diamond ring won't shine (love you more)
    She will break this heart of mine (if I make a mistake, love me)
    And that's why I keep on tellin' everybody (just to feel, oh, just to feel)
    Yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Everybody have you heard? (I I, I know that you know)
    He's gonna buy me a mockingbird (that I care)
    If that mockingbird don't sing (and I I I, I know that he knows)
    He's gonna buy me a diamond ring (he knows why)
    And if that diamond ring won't shine
    She will break this heart of mine
    And that's why I keep on tellin' everybody (just to feel, oh, just to feel)
    Yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Everybody have you heard?
    He's gonna buy me a mockingbird
    Oh if that mockingbird don't sing
    He's gonna buy me a diamond ring
    And if that diamond ring won't shine
    She will break this heart of mine
    And that's why I keep on tellin' everybody (just to feel, oh, just to feel)
    Yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Everybody have you heard?
    He's gonna buy me a mockingbird
    Oh if that mockingbird don't sing Writer/s: Charlie Foxx, Inez Foxx
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Slotko from SerbiaThese lyrics are from Carly Simon and James Taylor and bear little resemblance to what Inez Foxx sang.

    NOBODY sings this song as well as Inez Foxx, although Aretha Franklin comes close to it.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 10th 1965, Aretha Franklin performed "Mockingbird" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'...
    Two years later on December 17th, 1967 her covered version of the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
    {See next post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 17th 1967, Aretha Franklin's covered version of "Mockingbird" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #94; the following week it remained at #94 and that also was its final week on the Top 100...
    It reached #57 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart...
    The Queen of Soul, born Aretha Louise Franklin, will celebrate her 73rd birthday in three months on March 25th {2015}.
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