If I were a boy (video) (midi)

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1. If I were a boy even just for a day,

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I’d roll out of bed in the morning

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and throw on what I wanted and go.

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2. Drink beer with the guys and chase after girls,

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I’d kick it with who I wanted

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and I’d never get confronted for it,

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because they’d stick up for me,

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If I were a boy, I think I could understand

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how it feels to love a girl, I swear I’d be a better man.

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I’d listen to her ‘cause I know how it hurts,

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when you lose the one you wanted ‘cause he’s taken you for granted

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and everything you had got destroyed !

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2. If I was a boy, I would turn off my phone,

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tell everyone it’s broken,

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so they think that I was sleeping alone.

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I’d put myself first and make the rules as I go.

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‘cause I know that she’ll be faithful,

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waiting for me to come home, to come home.

+ CHORUS

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+ It’s a little too late for you to come back,

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say it’s just a mistake, think I forgive you like that.

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If you thought I would wait for you, you thought wrong. - - -

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But you’re just a boy,

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you don’t understand, and you don’t understand, oh,

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how it feels to love a girl,

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someday you’ll wish you were a better ma...........n.

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You don’t listen to her, you don’t care how it hurts.

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until you lose the one you wanted,

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‘cause you’ve taken her for granted,

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and everything you had got destroyed - - -

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but your just a boy.

(orig. = capo 6th) (Beyoncé)