Dar Williams - When I was a Boy Chords

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