If I Were A Boy chords

Ruth Brown

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Verse one 
             G/B   C G/B Am7             G/B C G/B Am7 
If I were a boy           Even just for a day  
           G/B               C                          G/B     Am7               G/B   C   G/B 
I roll out of bed in the morning and throw on what I wanted and go  
Am7                  G/B  C  G/B Am7           G/B   C G/B  
Drink beer with the guys        and chase after girls  
      G/B            C                               G/B     Am7                  G/B  
I kick it with who I wanted and I never get confronted for it  
    C                            G/B    Am7 
Because they stick up for me     
 
            G/B   C G/B     Am7       G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
If I were a boy   I think that I understand  
         G/B         C                   G/B                  G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
How it feels to love a girl I swear I be a better man  
              G/B   C G/B Am7                  G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
I listen to her           cause I know how it hurts  
           G/B          C                                        G/B            Am7  
When you lose the one you wanted cause he taken you for granted 
      G/B       C                     G/B   Am7  
And everything you had got destroyed!  

Verse Two 
             G/B   C G/B Am7             G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
If I were a boy           I would turn off my phone  
           G/B               C                 G/B          Am7               G/B   C   G/B     
Tell everyone that its broken so they think  that I was sleeping alone  
Am7        G/B  C  G/B Am7                 G/B         C   G/B  
I put myself first        and make the rules as I go  
      G/B            C                                       G/B     Am7             G/B C          G/B    Am7 
Cause I know that she be faithful waiting for me to come home,   to come home  

            G/B   C G/B              Am7       G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
If I were a boy   I think that I could understand  
                  G/B            C       G/B                  G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
How it feels to love a girl I swear I be a better man  
           G/B   C G/B Am7                  G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
I listen to her        cause I know how it hurts  
           G/B          C                                        G/B            Am7  
when you loose the one you wanted  cause he taken you for granted  
      G/B       C                     G/B   Am7  
And everything you had got destroyed!  

Verse three 
             G/B   C  G/B Am7             G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
It a little too late       for you to come back  
           G/B             C      G/B          Am7         G/B   C   G/B                    
Say its just a mistake think I forgive you like that  
              G/B  C G/B Am7      G/B        C  G/B    C          G/B    Am7 
If you thought            I would wait for you        you thought wrong  

            G/B   C G/B              Am7       G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
But your just a boy You don understand (and you don understand)  
                  G/B            C       G/B                  G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
How it feels to love a girl  someday you wish you were a better man  
           G/B   C G/B Am7                  G/B   C   G/B   Am7 
You don listen to her you don care how it hurts  
           G/B          C                                        G/B            Am7  
Until you lose the one you wanted cause you taken her for granted  
      G/B                             C                     G/B                  Am7  
And everything that you had got destroyed but your just a boy