The White Stripes – I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mothers Heart (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
D                                   C
I want to be the boy to warm 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
And even dreaded when you said goodbye
[Chorus]
 F                                    G
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

                                       D
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?

 F                               G
I'm inclined to go finish high school

                                  A
Just to make her notice that I'm around
| D | C G | x2 [Verse 2]
 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 I 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 her to really know who I am

                                 C
And then and only then will she love me

         G
Well at least that was the plan
[Chorus]
F                        G
If ever a boy needed a holiday

                                 D
If ever a girl needed someone to hold

F                           G
I just hope I don't act the same way

                            A
By the time that I get that old
[Solo] | D | C G | x4 [Chorus]
 F                                    G
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

                                       D
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?

F                                G
I'm inclined to go finish high school

                                  A
Just to make her notice that I'm around
| D | C G | x2 [Outro]
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                                         A
Because somebody ripped out my page in your telephone book

                 D
I wanna warm her heart