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  • Call it love and devotion Call it a mom’s adoration

  • Foundation

  • A special bond of creation, hah

  • For all the single moms out there Going through frustration

  • Clean Bandit, Sean-da-Paul, Anne-Marie Sing, make them hear

  • She works the nights, by the water

  • She's gonna stress, so far away From her father's daughter

  • She just wants a life for her baby

  • All on her own, no one will come She's got to save him (Daily struggle)

  • She tells him, "Oh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love I'm gonna give you all of my love

  • Nobody matters like you" (Stay out there, stay out there)

  • She tells him, "Your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life You're gonna grow and have a good life

  • I'm gonna do what I've got to do" (Stay out there, stay out there)

  • So, Rockabye baby, Rockabye I'm gonna rock you

  • Rockabye baby, don't you cry Somebody's got you

  • Rockabye baby, Rockabye I'm gonna rock you

  • Rockabye baby, don't you cry Rockabye, no

  • Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye (Rockabye, yeah oh oh) Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye

  • Single mama you doing out there Facing the hard life, without no fear (Yeah)

  • Just so you know that you really care Cause any obstacle come youre well prepared (Oh no)

  • And no mama, you never shed tear Cause you have to shed things year after year

  • And you give the youth love beyond compare (Yeah) You find his school fee and the bus fare (Yeah)

  • Mmm Marie, the paps' disappear In the round back can’t find him nowhere

  • Steadily you work flow, everything you know You know say you nuh stop the time fi a jear

  • Now she got a six-year-old Trying to keep him warm

  • Trying to keep out the cold When he looks in her eyes

  • He don't know he is safe When she says "oh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love

  • I'm gonna give you all of my love Nobody matters like you"

  • So, Rockabye baby, Rockabye I'm gonna rock you

  • Rockabye baby, don't you cry Somebody's got you

  • Rockabye baby, Rockabye I'm gonna rock you

  • Rockabye baby, don't you cry (Oh-badda-bang-bang-bang, alright then) Rockabye, no

  • Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye (Rockabye, yeah oh oh) Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye

  • Rockabye, don't bother cry Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky

  • Rockabye, don't bother cry Angels surround you, just dry your eye

  • Now she got a six-year-old Trying to keep him warm

  • Trying to keep out the cold When he looks in her eyes

  • He don't know he is safe when she says

  • She tells him, "Oh, love, no one's ever gonna hurt you, love I'm gonna give you all of my love

  • Nobody matters like you" (Stay out there, stay out there)

  • She tells him, "Your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life (stay) You're gonna grow and have a good life

  • I'm gonna do what I've got to do" (Stay out there, stay out there)

  • So, Rockabye baby, Rockabye (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) I'm gonna rock you

  • Rockabye baby, don't you cry (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) Somebody's got you

  • Rockabye baby, Rockabye (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) I'm gonna rock you

  • Rockabye baby, don't you cry (Oh-badda-bang-bang-bang, alright then) Rockabye

  • Rockabye, don't bother cry Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky (Rockabye)

  • Rockabye, don't bother cry (Yeah) Angels surround you, just dry your eye (Yeah)

  • Rockabye, don't bother cry (No) Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky (Oh)

  • Rockabye, don't bother cry Angels surround you, just dry your eye

Call it love and devotion Call it a mom’s adoration

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