Daughter: written and performed by Pearl Jam
Tab by Anthony Hoover

This song was written about a girl with dyslexia whose mother can't understand the 
disability and thinks her daughter is just being 
rebellious when all the daughter wants is her mother's love.


intro:

|-------------------|
|--------0h3p0------|
|----2p0-------0----|
|--0----------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|

part 1:

|--x-3-3-3-------------3----------------3------------------3|
|--x-3-3-3-------------3----------------3------------------3|
|--x-4-4-4---4---4---4-4--4---4-------4-4-4---4------------4|
|--x-5-5-5---5-7-5---5-5--5---5-7-5---5-5-5---5-7-5--7--7--5|
|--x-5-5-5---5-3-5---5-5--5---5-3-2---5-5-5---5-3-2--3--3--5|
|--x-3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3--3---3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3--3--3--3|

repeat 4x

first time no words 
you guys ready?
Alone... listless... breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl... violin... center of her own attention
Mother reads aloud child... tries to understand it.. tries to make her proud

the shades go..

part 2

|---------------------|
|---0---0---0---0--0-0|
|---12--11--7---6--6-7|
|---0---0---0---0--0-0|
|---------------------|
|---------------------|

repeat 4x

Down it's in her head
Painted room
Can't deny
There's something wrong

(part 1) x2

Don't call me daughter, not fit to. The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to. The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me...

(part 2) x4

fifth time (I'll call it rif 1) is a little weird..

|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|-0--0----0h2p0---0h2--|
|-2--2--2-------2------|
|----------------------|

(no words first five times)

(part 2) x4
she holds the hand
that holds her down
she will
rise above

solo:

|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----8-----8-----8-----8-------------------------------------------|
|-7h9---7h9---7h9---7h9---7h9p7---7---------------------------------|
|-------------------------------9---9----7h9p7-------7--------------|
|-------------------------------------10-------10-10---10-10-10---10|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------12h14p12---------------|
|-9--9--12--9----7-------7-9-----------9-12----------12-12-14p12---|
|-10-10-10-10-10---10-10-----10--10-10---------------------------14|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|

|---------------------------------------------------10----10----10---|
|------------------------------------------------------12----12----12|
|--------------12h14p12----------------------------------------------|
|-12--------------------12-12-14p12----12----------------------------|
|----14-12--------------------------14----14-12----------------------|
|----------15-----------------------------------15-------------------|

|--------------------------(15)--|
|-10----10---------10------------|
|----12----12---12----12---------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

(part 1)x4

Don't call me daughter, not fit to. The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be. The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to. The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be. The picture kept will remind me.
don't call me..
(More powerful each time)

(Part 2)x8

outro: (keep playing 16x fading out)

|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-2h3--2h3--2h3--2h3-2h3|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|

The shades go.. down
The shades go.. down
The shades go...


at the end of every other time for first 8x of outro play:

|-7---|
|-5---|
|-4---|
|-----|
|-----|
|-----|

at the end of every other time for last 8x of outro play:

|---3---|
|-5-----|
|-------|
|-------|
|-------|
|-------|

so heres basically the overview of the whole thing:

intro
part 1 x4
part 2 x4
part 1 x2
part 2 x4
rif 1  x1
part 2 x4
solo
part 1 x4
part 2 x8
outro  x16

I did this all by ear and I know I didn't get the strumming quite right 
but the chords definately sound a lot better to me than they did when 
I tried playing the other tabs. This is a great song and I look forward 
to all comments on how to make it better! Thanks!
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