Soldiers Daughter Guitar Tab

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 98 18:40:56 -0800
From: Tadpole Embryo 
Subject: "Soldier's Daughter" tab

"Soldier's Daughter"--by Tonic
Appears on the release Lemon Parade

Tablature done by Travis W. Gillison
tgilliso@risc.usi.edu or Saila@webtv.net

Tune Down 1/2 step (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, eb)

Notes:  These rhythms are hard to tab, so you'll have to
listen to the CD and get the number of strums down.  That
is hard to notate....Also, learn to use your pinky...Other-
wise, you won't be able to play this song.  It's pretty easy,
once you learn the stretches, and the rhythms.  Also, to my
knowledge, Jeff or Emerson do *not* tune down 1/2 step, but
I always do when I play most of their songs.  They use a capo,
which will raise the pitch, but not the key.  Trust me, this
is as close as you will get...Maybe just lower in pitch.
Also, the lead is *not* transcribed...Only the rhythm.
Sorry.  Lastly, there a lot of individual notes that are
simply picked within the chord structure....Hard to notate....
Again, listen to the CD....Please e-mail me with any corrections.

Intro:  Riff 1                       Fill into Riff 1

                     G
-------5-5-----------3333----------|--3h3-----Riff 1
---5/7-----5h7h53---3333----------|--5h3-----------
-------------------0-0000-strum----|----------------
-----------------------------------|----------------
-----------------------------------|----------------
-----------------------------------|----------------

Fill after Riff 1 (fourth time)  Note:  This is a *tough
stretch*....It'll take some practice and some dexterity.

 G
-3333--3355--7--10-7h8h75------
-3333--3333--3------------------
-0000--0000--0------------------
--------------------------------
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Verse riff

(Dsus2)                    (G)

----------------------------33----00-0-000---
-3--555-33-2h33--55--333----33----22h3-320---
-2--222-22-2h22--22--222----00----00-0-000---
-0--000-00-0-00--00--000----00----00---------
----------------------------22----00---------
----------------------------33---------------

Verse riff

It's the way he looks at you
That says to me 
This isn't over
From the outside looking in
You see there's nothing sacred here
Nothing sacred

Pre-chorus

(A)

You can bend...But you can't break....

Verse riff again

For the reasons out of our control
You try to make it roll
Like a dice away
But you say that you're all empowered here
This is obviously not clear enough
To me

Pre-chorus

(A)

You can bend...But you can't break....
You can't break

Chorus

(G)        (A)                   (Dsus2)     (A)

Hey, little girl, keep dancin'....Hey, little girl....

             (G)

Keep dancin' alone, 'cause there's not enough time in

(A)                 (C)

your day to keep you here....

Solo (Rhythm is chords for chorus)

(Bb)

Soldier's daugther, did your daddy...Did your daddy 

(Dsus2)  First part of Verse riff

hurt you?  Did he make you feel bad?

(Bb)                                            (A)

Did he poison your views...With the water he was raised

on?

Fill

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-2-2h4---
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Continue strumming (A)

Fill

------5---
--7-8-----
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Chorus

Second solo (G, A, C, G)

Outro is first riff, ending in (Dsus2)

So over the hills he'd climb
Just to see her there in time
Just to watch the sun shine through her eyes
The sweet soldier's daughter
The sweet soldier's daughter

Final notes:  This is my first tab, but I think it's fairly
accurate....Again, please feel free to notify me of errors

"Soldier's Daughter" copyright 1996 EMI Blackwood Music/EM
and M Music Publishing (BMI)

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Hudson Lead Player	#1 by Hudson Ryan at Aug 18, 1973 at 7:40 PM EST
	This is one of my favorite Tonic song. I never quite figured out the backstory, but I think the above comments captured my assumptions and ideas about it. It's a really good song. Emerson Hart is an awesome song writer.

No Picture Braxton Lead Player	#2 by Braxton Overby at Jan 10, 1986 at 7:38 AM EST
	"So over the hills he'd climb Just to see her there in time Just to watch the sun shine through her dress" Im sure this song is about a sexual abused girl in her chilhood

No Picture David Average	#3 by David Tims at Jul 30, 1989 at 1:53 PM EST
	First of all, obviously this song is about a girl and her father. I think that thier relationship as father and daughter isnt too well because he doesn't give her the love that a father should and treat her the way hes suppose to. I think when he says that You can bend But you can't break that he means you can take a break from trying to work at the relationship, but don't give up. Keep dancing, even if you have to be alone for a while. And when he says- For the reasons out of our control You try to make it roll, Like a dice away- i think hes saying that she keeps working at it but her father still isn't understanding and getting it through his head. i could be totally off... i mean sinces its soldiers daughter then maybe hes gone all the time so he cant pay enoguh attention to her. I really not sure if im close at all. But i love the song, its so powerful and meaningful.... :)

No Picture KISS is the gre Average	#4 by KISS is the greatest at Apr 22, 2000 at 4:22 PM EST
	I have to say, this is by far my favorite Tonic song. I almost cried the first time I heard it (and a few times since for that matter), and I can tell you exactly what it means in my head, which is what matters really ;p This is a being sung by a man to his younger sister. They've both grown up, moved out, gone on with their lives, and then one day he realizes that all the crap from when they were young is still there. The relationship between his sister and his dad is still not right. She keeps wanting something, affection maybe, or just for him to say 'I'm proud of who you've become', and he's not giving it. Maybe he's oblivious, maybe he's just cruel. I don't think either of them know. I love a couple of the lines; "You can bend/But you can't break." I get this picture of a palm tree, standing alone, completely unshielded from the winds off the water. And yet it stays standing, stays rooted in the ground, because instead of fighting the wind it's trunk bends, so low sometimes that it touches the sand, but it always stands up again when the wind stops blowing. I had a friend tell me it's all about sexual abuse, but I don't get that from this song at all. I think he thought so because of the 'sun shin[ing] though her dress' bit. To me that's just this beautiful image, carried by the brother, of a time when they were kids and they'd play in the fields and she'd pretend to be a ballerina, dancing around in her sundress. It's a plea to not lose that completely, even though it was that innocence that allowed her to be hurt in the first place. See, now I'm getting all teary again. Maybe I need to stop drawing parallels between song lyrics and my life. Or maybe that's the mark of a good song.

No Picture Mike Average	#5 by Mike at Dec 14, 2000 at 3:47 PM EST
	Got to agree with pretty much everything said here... a strained father/daughter relationship... Not quite sure I agree with the sexual abuse idea. I think the song title "soldiers daughter" suggests an overbearing father. As for the last part... "So over the hills he'd climb Just to see her there in time Just to watch the sun shine through her dress" Looks like after all is said and done, the daughter has written off her father, only after his realization that he made mistakes in the past and wishes to repent.