Chords
If I Were A Boy

Key: G

Introduction:

                           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                                          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                                          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                                          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