Daughter chords by Halia Meguid

Verse 1:
Dm                   Em
Once a daughter came to harm
Dm                  Em
In tender woodland night
Dm                Em
Pin-boned by two velvet arms
Dm                      Am
And turned a bloodless white

Verse 2:
Dm                  Em
When cried out the mothers, “oh,
Dm                    Em
Who done this deed tonight ”
Dm                    Em
I tied a ribbon round my throat
Dm                    Am
To hide the silver’s bite

Chorus:
      F                     Dm
And I hear the echoes of my mother,
        Em             Dm
As the smile carved her neck,
     F                       Dm
Gentle and red-filled as a lover:
        Em                 Am
“Beware them who call you daughter.”

Verse 3:
Dm              Em
What my gentle father teaches
Dm                    Em
Is to honor what we slay
Dm                    Em
But I split a devil into pieces,
Dm                     Am
And I threw the bones away

Verse 4:
Dm                           Em
One man, he would’ve called that wasteful
Dm                        Em
Another would call it a crime
Dm                              Em
But the third, he proudly found it tasteful
Dm                  Am
And put his hand in mine

Chorus:
      F                     Dm
And I hear the echoes of my mother,
        Em             Dm
As the smile carved her neck,
     F                       Dm
Gentle and red-filled as a lover:
        Em             Am
“Beware them who call you daughter.”

Verse 5:
Dm                 Em
If my tale becomes a whisper
Dm                        Em
Out of their man-eating mouths,
Dm                         Em
Know that those same lips once kissed her,
Dm                  Am
Their daughter, so devout

Chorus:
      F                     Dm
And I hear the echoes of my mother,
        Em             Dm
As the smile carved her neck,
     F                       Dm
Gentle and red-filled as a lover:
        Em                 Am
“Beware them who call you daughter.”

Verse 6:
F                             Dm
My tears are wiped by steady fingers
        Em              Dm
As the smile carves my neck
F                             Dm
And he whispers, gentle as a lover,
Em
His belly fed, as I am bled:
Em           Am
He calls me “daughter”.