If I Were A Boy Chords
If I Were A Boy by Reba McEntire is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords Am, F, C, G, Dm and Dm7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Am F C
If I were a boy
G Am F C
Even just for a day
Am F
I'd roll out of bed in the morning
C G Am F C
And throw on what I wanted and go
G Am F C
I'd drink beer with the guys
G Am F C
And chase after girls
Am F
I'd kick it with who I wanted
C G Am
And I'd never get confronted for it
F C
'Cause they'd stick up for me
G Am F C
If I were a boy
G Am F C G
I think I could understand
Am F
How it feels to love a girl
C G Am F C
I swear I'd be a, a better man
G Am F C
If I were a boy
G Am F C G
I would turn off my phone
Am F
Tell everyone it's broken
C G Am F C
So they'd think that I was sleeping alone
G Am F C
I'd put myself first
G Am F C
And make the rules as I go, oh oh
G Am F
Oh, 'cause I know that she'd be faithful
C G Am
Waiting for me to come home
F C
Oh, to come home
G Am F C
And if I were a boy
G Am F C G
I think I would understand
Am F
How it feels to love a girl
C G Am F C
I swear I'd be a, oh, a better man
G Am F C
And I'd listen to her
G Am F C G
'Cause I know how it hurts
Am F
When you lose the one you wanted
C G
'Cause he's taking you for granted
F C Dm
And everything you had got destroyed
Bridge:
F Am G Dm
It's a little too late for you to come back
F Am G Dm
Say it's just a mistake, think I'd forgive you like that
F Am G F
If you thought I would wait for you, you thought wrong
N.C. Am F C
But you're just a boy
G Am F C G
You don't understand
Am F
How it feels to love a girl someday
C G Am F C
You wish you were a, oh, a better man
G Am F C
Oh, you don't listen to her
G Am F C G
And you don't care how it hurts
Am F
Until you lose the one you wanted
C G
'Cause you're taking her for granted
Dm7 F
And everything you had got destroyed
OUTRO:
N.C. Am F C G
But you're just a boy