I Want to Be the Boy to Warm your Mother´s Heart

The White Stripes

Tom: G

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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?
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What kind of joke should I lay on her now?
F                                   G
  I'm inclined to go finish high school
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Just to make her notice that I'm around

( D C G ) 2x

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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
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If ever a girl needed someone to hold
F                                 G
  I just hope I don't act the same way
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By the time that I get that old

( D C G ) 4x

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  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