Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Daisy Mae (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

from the album "Here We Rest"
 Dm         C
Lay down beside me

  Dm                               C
Close your eyes and feel the noon day sun.

       Dm           C
These eyes, they remind me

       Am                         G
Of a scared and simple doe before she runs.

 Dm         C
John was a Baptist.

    Dm                                C
He feared the world could end at any time.

 Dm                                  C
You and I are charged with this, to hold the essence of a kiss.

    Am                                G
To take these broken plans and make them rhyme.

Am G/B  C    Am G/]B   C                     G
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae this hasn't been your day.

             F               Am
Hasn't been your day.

  Dm             C
Here, he never touched you.

   Dm                              C
Inside this house he never called your name.

     Dm                            C               
So stay where I can see you, girl. We both know the outside world

     Am                               G
Is changing and it will never be the same.

    Dm               C
My hands, they are wicked.

    Dm                      C
My head and my heart are wicked, too.

Dm                                    C
All these things that I do wrong, If you weren't given fear so strong

Am                          G
I would not be good enough for you.

 Am G/B C    Am G/B   C                     G          F     Am
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae, this hasn't been your day.

     F
But I won't lay this pistol down

  C
until the sky falls to the ground.

  G
Leave him there to call your name

       F
'till man and land are both the same.

 Am G/B  C    Am G/B  C                     G            F
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae, this hasn't been your day.

 Am G/B  C    Am G/B  C                     G         
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae, this hasn't been your day.

              F               Am
Hasn't been your day.