Chords for Only a Boy - Rod Stewart - 1981

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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ I'm _ [G#m] _ _ _ a _ _
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[B] _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] little bit [C#m] too busy acting a [G#m] fool.
_ _ [E] Thank you sir for them few kind words.
[F#] On my last day of school, [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ I could be a success if I'd [C#m] only got myself [G#m] out of bed.
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Words of wisdom that [B] I was a legend and I had [F#] plans in my head.
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[C#m] _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ Oh, yeah [B] boy.
_ _ _ [E] _ Rocking low [B]-low in my plane, [C#m] Eddie Cochran running through [G#m] my brain.
_ _ [E] Skin-tight trousers [B] in council houses, [F#] the unemployment state.
_ _ _ _ [E] Blue-toned plaid from [B] Mississippi, made [C#m] every Friday night of fall.
[G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] Football field, [B] _ teenage feel, [F#] nothing to _
[B] _ know.
Only [E] a boy, _ dressing [B] to kill, gun [C#m] to feel, under [G#m] the chair.
Only [E] a boy, _ [B] spinning in _ [C#m] the spin, chasing [G#m] a dream.
_ Only [B] a boy, _ _ _ _ _ only a boy. _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [D#m] _
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[B] I used to believe [C#m] in an old, _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] pathetic, _ [B] who never understood [F#] it. _ _ _
_ _ And [E] now we're never in the [B] school of land, [C#m] that goes hand in [G#m] hand with shame.
_ _ [E] The young and the old [B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ say, [D#m] _ _ [B] only [E] a boy, not [B] feeling, _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ leaving [C#m] his home. _ _
[G#m] _ _ Only [B] a boy, _ _
[G#m] _ _ only [B] a boy. _ _
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[G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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