Biography:
Meghan Tonjes is a singer / songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. She is known in the YouTube community mostly for putting up a weekly series on YouTube, called "Request Tuesday" where she takes popular and not so popular music and makes her own acoustic versions of them.
In 2009 she released her debut album "Be In Want" that hit #8 on the Singer-Songwriter iTunes charts after appearing on the Ellen Degeneres show in 2011.
In the spring of 2011, she joined the Digitour, a Youtube-centric tour, for the Grand Rapids and Nashville dates.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
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Low key fell in love with this song and needed to play it. Figured since I did the work of
figuring it out I might as well share it. Got this all from watching this video
youtube(.)com/watch?v=5bbJfqScBtg
Meghan does an alternating finger plucking pattern with her thumb catching the bass notes and
index and middle fingers plucking the higher strings for pretty much the whole song
but basic strumming sounds good as well.
It's better if you watch the video for the rhythm.
D/F# chord is actually a Dadd11/F#. She switches between {200033} and {200233}, for the sake of
simplicity I distinguished between them. When Em7 to G/E comes up, she just pulls off of the D
string.
Let me know if I got something wrong. Enjoy!
D/F# - {200233}
Dadd11/F# - {200033}
Em7 - {022033}
G/E - {020033}
Cadd9 - {x32033}
Csus2 - {x30033}
G - {320033}
Gsus2 - {300033}
STANDARD
CAPO 5
VERSE 1
Cadd9 G D/F# Cadd9
I was born to a man in the winter of '85
G D/F# Cadd9
had the sea in my blood and the salt in my lungs that night
G
I've heard stories about how
D/F#
when they took me away, you cried
Em7 G/E Cadd9 Csus2 Gsus2 Dadd11/F# Cadd9
Oh, daddy, don't let them take me tonight
VERSE 2
Cadd9 G D/F# Cadd9
I was born to a man who only loves his name
G
so, he wrapped it around me
D/F# Cadd9
and, again when my brother came
G
oh, these pills don't go easy
D/F#
and now I know his pain
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F# Em7 G/E
Oh, daddy, don't let them see you this way
CHORUS
Csus2 Gsus2
Now, I am a rootless tree
D/F# Em7 G/E
a ship that is lost at sea
Csus2 Gsus2 D/F# Em7 G/E
yeah, he took the sails from me
Csus2 Gsus2
I burn it, I'm burning slow
D/F# Em7 G/E
I want you to know I know
Csus2 Gsus2
that you're not the end of me
D/F# Em7 G/E
oh, father
CONNECT 1
Cadd9 Gsus2
VERSE 3
Cadd9 G D/F# Cadd9
I was born to a man who drinks himself to death
worked his hands to the bone
G D/F# Cadd9
gave his time, there was nothing left
G
goes to church every Sunday
D/F#
he knows his soul is damned
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F# Em7 G/E
oh, daddy, don't do this, oh not again
SAME CHORUS AGAIN
CONNECT 2
Cadd9 G D/F# Em7 G/E
Cadd9 G D/F#
BRIDGE
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F#
there was a time when I would fit inside those arms
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F#
put my tiny feet on yours and we'd dance the floor
Em7 Cadd9
now who's gonna walk me down
G
I don't know anymore
D/F#
you are a sinking ship
Em7 Cadd9 Em7
and I have seen the shore
SAME CHORUS AGAIN
CONNECT 3
Cadd9 G D/F# Em7
G/E Cadd9*
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# Em7
oh, father, forget you
Cadd9
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# Em7
oh, father, forget you
Cadd9
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# Em7
oh, father, forget you
Cadd9
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# (once if strumming)
oh, father, forgive you
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F#
figuring it out I might as well share it. Got this all from watching this video
youtube(.)com/watch?v=5bbJfqScBtg
Meghan does an alternating finger plucking pattern with her thumb catching the bass notes and
index and middle fingers plucking the higher strings for pretty much the whole song
but basic strumming sounds good as well.
It's better if you watch the video for the rhythm.
D/F# chord is actually a Dadd11/F#. She switches between {200033} and {200233}, for the sake of
simplicity I distinguished between them. When Em7 to G/E comes up, she just pulls off of the D
string.
Let me know if I got something wrong. Enjoy!
D/F# - {200233}
Dadd11/F# - {200033}
Em7 - {022033}
G/E - {020033}
Cadd9 - {x32033}
Csus2 - {x30033}
G - {320033}
Gsus2 - {300033}
STANDARD
CAPO 5
VERSE 1
Cadd9 G D/F# Cadd9
I was born to a man in the winter of '85
G D/F# Cadd9
had the sea in my blood and the salt in my lungs that night
G
I've heard stories about how
D/F#
when they took me away, you cried
Em7 G/E Cadd9 Csus2 Gsus2 Dadd11/F# Cadd9
Oh, daddy, don't let them take me tonight
VERSE 2
Cadd9 G D/F# Cadd9
I was born to a man who only loves his name
G
so, he wrapped it around me
D/F# Cadd9
and, again when my brother came
G
oh, these pills don't go easy
D/F#
and now I know his pain
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F# Em7 G/E
Oh, daddy, don't let them see you this way
CHORUS
Csus2 Gsus2
Now, I am a rootless tree
D/F# Em7 G/E
a ship that is lost at sea
Csus2 Gsus2 D/F# Em7 G/E
yeah, he took the sails from me
Csus2 Gsus2
I burn it, I'm burning slow
D/F# Em7 G/E
I want you to know I know
Csus2 Gsus2
that you're not the end of me
D/F# Em7 G/E
oh, father
CONNECT 1
Cadd9 Gsus2
VERSE 3
Cadd9 G D/F# Cadd9
I was born to a man who drinks himself to death
worked his hands to the bone
G D/F# Cadd9
gave his time, there was nothing left
G
goes to church every Sunday
D/F#
he knows his soul is damned
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F# Em7 G/E
oh, daddy, don't do this, oh not again
SAME CHORUS AGAIN
CONNECT 2
Cadd9 G D/F# Em7 G/E
Cadd9 G D/F#
BRIDGE
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F#
there was a time when I would fit inside those arms
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F#
put my tiny feet on yours and we'd dance the floor
Em7 Cadd9
now who's gonna walk me down
G
I don't know anymore
D/F#
you are a sinking ship
Em7 Cadd9 Em7
and I have seen the shore
SAME CHORUS AGAIN
CONNECT 3
Cadd9 G D/F# Em7
G/E Cadd9*
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# Em7
oh, father, forget you
Cadd9
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# Em7
oh, father, forget you
Cadd9
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# Em7
oh, father, forget you
Cadd9
oh, father, where are you,
G D/F# (once if strumming)
oh, father, forgive you
Em7 Cadd9 G D/F#
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