Ordinary Boys Chords
by Morrissey
Ordinary Boys by Morrissey is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Bb, C, Em and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
G D Bb C G
Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing
D Bb C
Happy being no-one but themselves
G D Bb C
Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes
G D Bb C
Who think it's very clever to be cruel to you
Em D
For you were so different
Em D
You stood all alone
F
And you knew
C D
That it had to be so
G D
Avoiding ordinary boys
Bb C G
Happy going nowhere, just around here
D Bb C
In their rattling cars
G D
Ordinary girls
Bb C
Never seeing further
G D
Than the cold, small streets
Bb C
That trap them
Em D
But you were so different
Em D
You had to say no
F
When those empty fools
C D
Tried to change you, and claim you
G D Bb
For the lair of their ordinary world
C G
Where they feel so lucky
D Bb C
So lucky, so lucky
G D
With their lives laid out before them
Bb
They are lucky
C G
So lucky, so lucky
D Bb C
So lucky, so