Daisy Mae Chords
by Jason Isbell
Daisy Mae by Jason Isbell is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm, C, Am, G, B and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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 B C Am 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 B C Am 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 B C Am B C G F
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae, this hasn't been your day.
Am B C Am B C G
Daisy Mae, Daisy Mae, this hasn't been your day.
F Am
Hasn't been your day.