Daniel (baby Boy) Acoustic chords by Kimya Dawson

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
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I was twelve and things had been
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Pretty okay up till then
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The only deaths I’d experienced
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Were of pets and the grandparents of my friends

Verse 2:
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I was in gifted and talented
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Until right around the seventh grade
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But that is when everything changed
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And I had to flip a switch and shut off my brain

Chorus:
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Cause if I thought too much
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I’d get sick to my stomach
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And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

Verse 3:
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Cause that is when I realized that
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Even little babies die and
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I had to build a wall inside to
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Keep me from losing my mind

Verse 4:
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He was only nine months old
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A augmentedA kid I’d babysit and hug and hold
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And I would tickle his toes and pat his head
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And watch his chest rise and fall as he slept in his crib

Bridge:
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And then my dad said late last night
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A augmentedA drunk driver hit their car he didn’t survive
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And his mom was hurt bad but his dad is alright
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His big brother is fine cause he stayed at the party
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Yeah yeah steven is fine cause he stayed at the party

Chorus:
     G+G    D MajorD  C majorC
And if I thought too much
    G+G    D MajorD C majorC
I’d get sick to my stomach
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And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

Verse 5:
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Sometimes things happen when we are small
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That we just don’t have the tools to deal with at all
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So we bottle them up and we just don’t see
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How the stuff that we stuff will affect who we’ll be

Verse 6:
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What protects us as kids slowly makes us insane
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So I’m trying to dismantle barricades
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Brick by brick in an attempt to set free my brain
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Brick by brick in an attempt to set free my brain
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And I just hope that my heart is stronger now
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So much stronger than it was when I was twelve

Chorus:
     G+G    D MajorD  C majorC
When if I thought too much
    G+G    D MajorD C majorC
I’d get sick to my stomach
      G+G     D MajorD   C majorC
And I would feel like giving up
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Or throwing up it was just too tough

Verse 7:
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And I’d sing ‘Daniel’ again and again
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And pretend you were just traveling on a plane
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Quarter century later it’s still hard to take
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But with every red tail light I scream out your name
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Yeah with every red tail light I scream out your name
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Yeah with every red tail light I scream out your name

Outro:
    G+G    D MajorD    C majorC
I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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I say ‘Daniel, Daniel, Daniel’
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy, baby boy, baby boy
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Baby boy