I Want to Be the Boy to Warm your Mother's Heart Chords
I Want to Be the Boy to Warm your Mother's Heart by The White Stripes is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, C, G, F, D4, D7, A, A4 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D C
I want to be the boy that warms your mother's heart
G D
I'm so scared to take you away
C
I tried to win her over right from the start
G D
But something always got in the way
C
We've been sitting in your backyard for hours
G D
But she won't even come out and say hi
C
While my mother baked a little cake for you
G F
And even dreaded when you said goodbye
G
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?
D D4 D D7
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?
F G
I'm inclined to go finish high school
A A4 A A7
Just to make her notice that I'm around
( D C G ) 2x
D C
Well nothing I come up with seems to work
G D
It feels like everything I say is a lie
C
And never have a felt like such a jerk
G D
I'm afraid to even open my eyes
C
Because I really don't want her to judge me
G D
I want to her really know who I am
C
And then, and only then she will love me
G F
Well at least that was the plan
G
If ever a boy needed a holiday
D D4 D D7
If ever a girl needed someone to hold
F G
I just hope I don't act the same way
A A4 A A7
By the time that I get that old
( D C G ) 4x
D C
I never said I was the heir to a fortune
G D
I never claimed to have any looks
C
But these kind of things must be important
G
Because somebody ripped out my page
A
In your telephone book
D
I want to warm her heart