Waiting On The Day Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays439

Waiting On The Day by John Mayer is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, C, A, Bm and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
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D (drop high E to open string where appropriate) 
Waiting on the day/  
C                           D 
When my thoughts are my own/  
C                          D 
When this house is my home/  
                       A 
And planes are leaving/  
Bm       D               G 
Will you be there for me baby?/ 
Bm       D               G  
Will you love me all the way/  
Bm       D             
When you take my side/ 
G  
In every little fire fight/  
Bm       D                    G 
When you hang your things and stay/  
D 
I'm waiting on the day/  
C                      D 
When my life on the run/  
C                     D 
Reaches out in the sun/  
A 
Shows my age/  
D 
I'm waiting on the day/  
C                           D 
When that voice comes to say/  
C 
It's not wrong what you did/  
A 
For just a kid/  
Bm       D               G 
Will you be there for me baby?/ 
Bm       D               G 
Will you love me all the way?/  
Bm     D                 G              
When you take my side,/ In every little fire fight/  
Bm       D                    G 
When you hang your things and stay?/  
D 
I'm waiting on the day/  

Instrumental 

D 
Waiting on the day/ 
C                           D 
When these words are in stone/  
C                         D 
When the kids are all grown/  
A                Bm    D              G 
And we go dancing/ Oh can you do it baby?/  
Bm      D                  G 
Can you love me all the way?/  
Bm       D           G 
Will you tie me tight/ In little strands of paradise/  
Bm       D                                   G 
Will you walk with me before the morning fades?/  

D (See below) 
I'm waiting on the day 

For the outro of the studio version you essentially play improve on a D chord and  
alternate between three bass notes (first being Open D, Second being 3nd fret of  
Open A and third being 2nd fret of Open A). Play around with that and tweak it to  
whichever way suits you. Open for suggestions @ [email protected] (m  us  
the ...) - I've purposefully "dumbed down" the song so that beginners etc would be  
able to give it a crack. 

Cheers, 
Ben 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante