When I Was A Boy Chords by Dar Williams

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_ _ [G] I won't forget [Bm] when Peter Pan came to my house, took [C] my hand.
I said I was a boy, [Bm] I'm glad he [D] didn't check. _
_ [G] _ I learned to fly, I [Bm] learned to fight.
I lived a whole life [C] in one night.
We saved each other's lives [Bm] out on the pirate [D] _ deck. _
_ _ And I remember that [Bm] night when I'm leaving a late night [D] with some friends.
And I hear somebody [Bm] tell me it's not safe, [D] someone should help me.
I need to find a nice man to walk [Gm] me home.
When I was a boy, [Bm] _
I scared the pants off [C] of my mom,
climbed what I could climb [Bm] up _ [D] on. _ _ _
_ _ [G] And I don't know how I [Bm] survived.
I guess I knew the [C] tricks that all boys [Bm] knew.
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And you _ [Bm] can walk _ _ [D] me _ home. _
_ _ But I was _ [G]
a boy too.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
I was a kid that you would [Bm] like, just a small boy on [C] her bike, riding topless.
Yeah, [Bm] I never cared [D] who _ saw.
_ _ [G]
My neighbor came outside [Bm] to say, get your shirt.
I said, [D] no way, it's the last time, I [Bm] am not breaking _ [E] any law.
[D] _ And now I'm in this [Bm] clothing store, and the signs say less [D] is more.
More that's tight means [Bm] more to see.
More for them, not more [D] for me.
That can't help me climb a tree, ten [G] seconds flat.
When I was a boy, _ [Bm] _ see that picture?
That [Am] was me.
Grass-stained shirt and [Bm] dusty knees.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
And I know things have got [Bm] to change.
They got pills to sell.
They [Am] got implants to put in.
They [Bm] got implants to [D] remove.
_ _ _ But I _ [Bm] am not _ _ _
_ [D] _ forgetting _ _ _ _ that I was [G] a boy _
[Bm] too.
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_ _ _ _ And like the woods where I [Bm] would creep, it's a secret I [C] can keep.
Except when I'm tired, [D] except when I'm being cut off.
_ _ Garden.
I've had a lonesome, awful [Bm] day.
The conversation [C] finds its way to catching fireflies [G] out in [D] the [G] backyard.
_ _ And so I tell [Bm] the man I'm with about the other life I [D] live.
And I say, now you're [Bm] top gun.
I have lost and you [D] have won.
And he says, oh no, no, can't you [G] see?
When I was a girl, [Bm] _ [Em] my mom and I, we [C] always talked.
And I picked flowers [G] everywhere [D] that I walked.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ And I could always cry.
Now [Bm] even when I'm [C] alone, I seldom do.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ And I _ have [Bm] lost _ some [D] _ _
kindness.
_ _ _ [G] But I was a girl too. _ _ _
And you were [Am] just like _ me.
_ [Bm] _ [D] And I was just _ like _ you.
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