When I Was a Boy chords by
Dar Williams
Patty Larkin

N/A

Simplified

Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
G G 
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I won't forget when Peter Pan came to my house,
Csus2 Csus2 
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took my hand
I said I was a boy
G G 
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G G 
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I'm glad he didn't   check
I learned to fly, I learned to fight
Csus2 Csus2 
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I lived a whole life in one night
We saved each other's lives out
G G 
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D D 
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on the pirate's    deck
G G 
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And I remember that night
D D 
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When I'm leaving a late
night with some friends
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G G 
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And I hear somebody     tell me it's not safe,
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D D 
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someone should   help me
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I need to  find a nice man
G G 
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to walk me home
When I was a boy,
Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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Csus2 Csus2 
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I scared the pants  off of my mom
D D 
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G G 
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Climbed what I could climb    upon

Verse 2

Dsus4

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And I don't know how I survived

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I guess I knew the tricks

Csus2

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Dsus4

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that all boys knew

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Dsus4

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Dsus4

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And you can walk me home, but I was a boy,

Interlude 1

too

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Csus2

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Dsus4

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Verse 3
G G 
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I was a kid that you would like,
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just a small boy on her bike
D D 
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Riding topless, yeah,
G G 
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D D 
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I never cared who      saw
G G 
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My neighbor came outside to say,
"get your shirt"
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I said "no way,
D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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it's the last time I'm not breaking any      law"
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G G 
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And now I'm in a clothing      store,
D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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and the sign says less is more
G G 
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More that's tight means more to see,
D D 
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more for them, not more for me
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That can't help     me climb
D D 
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G G 
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a tree in ten seconds  flat

Verse 4
G G 
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When I was a  boy,
C C 
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see that picture? that was me
Csus2 Csus2 
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Grass-   stained shirt and
D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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dusty knees
And I know things have gotta change
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They got pills to sell, they've got implants to put in,
D D 
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G G 
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they've got implants to remove
D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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But I am not forgetting
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D D 
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G G 
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That I was a boy,

Interlude 2

too

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Dsus4

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Verse 5
G G 
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And like the woods where I would creep,
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it's a secret I can keep
C C 
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Except when I'm tired,
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G G 
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G G 
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except when     I'm being caught off      guard
I've had a lonesome awful day,
C C 
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the conversation finds its way
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D D 
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To catching fire-    flies out in the backyard
D D 
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G G 
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And I tell the man I'm with
D D 
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about the other life I lived
G G 
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And I say now you're top gun
D D 
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I have lost and you have won
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He says, "oh      no, no,
D D 
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G G 
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can't you see?"
When I was a girl, my mom and I,
D D 
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we always talked
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C C 
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And I picked flowers  every
G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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where that I walked
And I could always cry,
C C 
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D D 
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C C 
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G G 
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now even when I'm alone I seldom do
D D 
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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An d I have lost some kindness
D D 
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G G 
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But I  was a girl, too
Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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And you were just like me,
G G 
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D D 
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D D 
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G G 
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and I  was just     like you