Daughters Guitar Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 Ver 4 
	

Heavier Things Tabs:

Daughters
by John Mayer
from the album 'Heavier Things'
i noticed there was a tab for the song w/ the chords that work out perfectly
but there was no tabs for the little fillins played by the other guitar in the song
the chords for the intro are Bm7 Em7 Asus4 Dx2
the chords for the verses are the same; Bm7 Em7 Asus4 D
the chords for the chorus are also the same; Bm7 Em7 Asus4 D
then after the second chorus there is a verse that starts off 'boys you can break', and
the chords for that verse are F(d shaped) D#(d shaped) D
Dmaj7 Dsus2 Bm7 Em7 D/F# A#6/F B6/G
after that the rest of the song is the same 4 chords Bm7 Em7 Asus4 D
A#6/F  1 0 3 0 1 3
B6/G   "  "  "  "  2 frets higher
Bm7    x 2 4 2 3 0
this is played in the intro over the chords John plays
e------0-------------------------------------------------
b------8---3--(5)--7h8--7----------------------5--7h8-7--
g--4---7-------------------------4--6-7-4--6-7-----------
d------0-------------------------------------------------
a--------------------------------------------------------
e--------------------------------------------------------
this is played over the same chords but it is played after the first chorus
e-----------------------------------------------
b------------------------5----------------------
g--4---0-4-7---4-7-6---7---7--------------------
d-----------------------------------------------
a-----------------------------------------------
e-----------------------------------------------
and this is played later on in the song after the lines '..but boys would be gone
without warmth of a woman's good good heart'  listen to the song for how many times you
play the whole thing through though
e-----------------------------------------------
b-----------------------------------------------
g--6-7-------6-7-------6-7-------6--7-----------
d------7-6-------5-4-------7-6--------4---------
a-----------------------------------------------
e-----------------------------------------------
this is about my 4th tab so please rate this if you found it to be helpful
here are the lyrics for reference, even though you should also listen to the song to get
it completely right
i know a girl
she pus the color inside of my world
shes jsut like a maze
where all of the walls all continually change
now i started to see
maybe its got nothing to do with me
so fathers be good to your daughters
daughters will love like you do
girls become lovers who turn into mothers
so mothers be good to your daughters too
oh you see that skin
its the same shes been standing in
since the day she saw him walking away
now shes left, cleaning up the mess he made
chorus
boys you can break
find out how much they can take
boys will be strong and
boys soldier on
but boys would be gone
without the warmth of a woman's good good heart
on behalf of everyman
looking out for everygirl
you are the god and the weight of her world
chorus
so mothers be good to your daughters too
so mothers be good to your daughters too
thanks again, and please leave me a rating so i know how well im doing

Source: GuitarMasta.net
http://www.guitarmasta.net/m/mayer,_john/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Tyler Rhythm Player	#1 by Tyler Explains Cuntainment at Sep 27, 2007 at 12:26 AM EST
	Girls become lovers who turn into mothers, eh. What about girls who want careers instead? Fathers, be evil to them!!

No Picture Jer Average	#2 by Jer at Sep 27, 2007 at 3:38 AM EST
	I love this song. Nothing else to be said.

No Picture jamie Lead Player	#3 by jamie soad at Sep 27, 2007 at 6:06 AM EST
	i used to love this song but then i realized what it was really about....its disgusting...

No Picture The Random Rock Average	#4 by The Random Rocker at Sep 27, 2007 at 11:14 AM EST
	Millionaire, I'm waiting to be convinced that the poor treatment of women in Muslim countries has anything whatsoever to do with this song. Of COURSE plenty of women need to be treated better. My argument is that this song is evidence of that.

No Picture lewi Wanna Be	#5 by lewi broadway at Sep 27, 2007 at 1:46 PM EST
	Such a beautiful song! It's got great advice to everyone, Boys look after you're girl, father's look after your children (not neseccarily Daughters), and the same with mothers. So nice and simple.

No Picture Alisha Wanna Be	#6 by Alisha A. at Sep 27, 2007 at 4:22 PM EST
	This is like the biography of every fatherless girl. I wish I could sit down every parent of girls and play this song.

No Picture Tab Wanna Be	#7 by Tab at Sep 27, 2007 at 10:21 PM EST
	for me, it's not just fathers that the message is for. the songs about any girl who's been broken by her past. it's so hard for her to let people in and move on from what she lived through. no one ever showed her that she was worth it, so she doesn't understand why a guy would ever want her.

No Picture skater-boy Rhythm Player	#8 by skater-boy at Sep 28, 2007 at 9:18 AM EST
	He performed this last Sunday at the American Music Award. It was a great performance. They shot the whole song in black and white. He was not like other performers at all. I've been his fan for years, but it always amazes me how his talent shines so effortlessly. John and his guitar... Simply amazing. About the song. When I bought the album, I didn't really pay much attention to the song, but that AMA performance made me go back to the CD and REALLY listen. I am learning so much from what he had to say in the song. He is singing about a girl whose father had left when she was little. Luckily, I grew up with both of my parents together and they still are together after decades. But I've learned that there are so many broken families in the US. And their children have the toughest time in their lives. I cannot imagine growing up without my father. He held it all together, he stepped in if I was in trouble, he told me what was wrong and what was right, and most of all, he showed me what love and committment meant, so did my mother. How about men? How about men whose fathers left? I've been involved with 4 men in the past decade whose fathers have been absent. One ended up with a broken marriage of my own. I've tried with other 2 and could not deal with them. And "now I am starting to realize that it's got nothing to do with me..." I am on a verge of giving up with the last one. I have broken myself trying for them, and maybe it's time that I've given up. They have little trust in men, so much doubt in life, so much fear in themselves turning up to be like their fathers. Why? Why leave someone who you once loved so much and your child? That's the question these childrens will never find the answer to. Some of them spend their life time trying to find out. Some of them may just give up trying to find the answer and give in. Yes, and I am watching over them, but ultimately, know that it has nothing to do with me... and I'm here standing with my heard in my hands...

No Picture SaM Lead Player	#9 by SaM at Sep 28, 2007 at 10:31 AM EST
	i really like this song. it came to me at a difficult time,with my mom n my dad,and when i listened to it,it all seemed to come together 4 me. and i love the guitar in the background.

No Picture dale Average	#10 by dale clayton at Sep 29, 2007 at 8:09 AM EST
	ive seen him explain it several times. ive pieced together that its about how he wishes fathers had treated their daughters better when they were young so that it would be easier for him to have sex with them now without all the emotional s%@t.

No Picture scott Wanna Be	#11 by scott smith at Sep 29, 2007 at 7:50 PM EST
	this song is obviously about being nice to your daughters..but i have herd it is about his own daughter and to his wife...boys you can break find out how much they can take boys will be strong and boys soldier on but boys would be gone without warmth of a woman's good good heart that part it shows that is why he wrote it...that no one would be here without the help of women...i mean we wouldnt be here if it wasnt for guys either but treat girls and daughters right because they will grow up and be mothers and be very helpful to alot of people

No Picture Eric Average	#12 by Eric Phillips at Oct 1, 2007 at 12:28 AM EST
	I can relate to the guy's point of view about trying so damn hard to repair whatever is wrong, but coming up empty handed, because there's something inside her that is immobile and fixed that he might never be able to overcome.... There are ultimately two kinds of girls that are 'created' when there's an absence of a father: there's the kind of girl that yearns/needs that male attention and she'll get it any way she can, and there's the other kind of girls that are so used to the absense of a male in her life, that she pushes all of them away and puts a guard up. John Mayer described the latter to a T...

No Picture Juicy Wanna Be	#13 by Juicy Dangler at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:08 PM EST
	I'm a HUGE John Mayer fan but this really isn't one of my favorite songs of his. He performed it one the Today Show and he said he wrote it about girls that already seem broken and he can try to pick up the pieces and make everything alright but there's nothing he can do because something happened in her home life that can't be repaired.

No Picture Aaron Average	#14 by Aaron Smith at Oct 2, 2007 at 12:50 AM EST
	some crap.. of all the things to sing about, he chose Daughters? 1 2 3 4 Next

No Picture N Wanna Be	#15 by N H at Oct 3, 2007 at 1:34 AM EST
	I think that this is a beautiful song and it is sweet. I mean, he has a great message about how parents need to take care of their daughters and i think from his point of view, that's what he has seen. But I have felt both sides of the spectrum and I know boys can be just as fragile and need a girl's love just as much. I don't have a good relationship with my father and neither does my signficant other with his and i'd say we are equally broken about it. But when it comes to say that boys need to support their girlfriends and understand that sometimes they have issues greater than that with the boys themselves, that's a good message.

No Picture Joey Wanna Be	#16 by Joey at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:36 AM EST
	This song is so beautiful, it's about how someone is struggling with a relationship but then realises there's nothing he can do because it's something out of his hands. "I've done all I can to stand on the steps with my heart in my hands Now i started to think maybe its got nothing to do with me"

No Picture Joshua Wanna Be	#17 by Joshua graham at Oct 3, 2007 at 2:45 PM EST
	i don't understand how he could say "girls wont really get it". .how can they not? depending on their relationships with their parents of course. .i can see how it is easily understood by both sexes

No Picture gary Average	#18 by gary lunn at Oct 3, 2007 at 11:12 PM EST
	i like this song, it has a nice message.and gravity defiant there are woman out there who do need to be treated better. there are lots of woman out there in places like morocco who have every inch of their body covered apart from their eyes and they must always remain indoors and if they go outside and even LOOK at another man then the men have the right to shoot her. it's terrible the way men can treat woman still, it should be illegal, woman and men should be treated equally.

No Picture RANDOM Lead Player	#19 by RANDOM Doom at Oct 4, 2007 at 2:55 AM EST
	I'm obviously in the minority here, but this song, quite frankly, makes me want to puke. "Oh, please, be careful with the poor fragile girls; they can't take being hurt the way boys can! And we men need them to be in good shape so they'll be willing to fuck us when they grow up!" Mysogynistic bullshit, all of it. (And I say that as a woman who's been pretty well fucked up by my father, fwiw.)

No Picture Dylan Rhythm Player	#20 by Dylan Fitzgerald at Oct 4, 2007 at 12:59 PM EST
	I was lucky enough to see john in concert. His exact words were "this is not meant to be a pansy song. Its more for the guys, girls wont really get it." And he did a kick ass job singing it. But has anyone noticed how weird he looks when he sings. its kinda disturbing. Dave matthews looks twenty times better when he sings.

No Picture Adam Average	#21 by Adam ****** at Oct 4, 2007 at 5:12 PM EST
	I can't believe there aren't more comments on this song... it's very nice, I think. He manages to make a heavy topic seem a little lighter.

No Picture William Wanna Be	#22 by William Poop at Oct 4, 2007 at 10:51 PM EST
	This is such a beautiful song! I love it!

No Picture Drennan Professional Badass	#23 by Drennan Bragg at Oct 5, 2007 at 4:40 AM EST
	I LOVE the lyrics that say: "You are the god and the weight of her world" That's how girls feel about their dads. Well most girls anyway. That's how I felt about my dad before he left me and my mom. There's something special about a father-daughter relationship which is what John was talking about. How father's should treat their daughters right because they have such a huge influence on their lives.

No Picture chris Average	#24 by chris ovari at Oct 5, 2007 at 1:52 PM EST
	I loev this song (along w/ every other john mayer song in existance), it explains so much about life. to me it's just about how the things parents teach their children show up in their children's lives later. It just talks about how everything carries through life, and it's all a cycle, and what everybody teaches their children could and most likely will be carried on through generations.

No Picture Brendon Wanna Be	#25 by Brendon Cooper at Oct 6, 2007 at 9:53 PM EST
	these lyrics are incorrect. it should be oh, you see that skin? it's the same she's been standing in since the day she saw him walking away now she's left cleaning up the mess he made