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If I Were A Boy chords by Beyoncé (Ver. 2)

Chords with lyrics

Notes about how to play ¨If I Were a Boy¨ by Beyonce Knowles.

  Below, you’ll find the strumming patterns that you need to
use to play the chords of song and the chords themselves.


If I Were Chord diagramA augmentedA Boy
by Beyonce Knowles

Tuning: Standard - no capo needed
Strumming Patterns: Verses & Chorus
                        down-down-down
                        up-down-up-down
                        down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up (chorus’ end)
                    Bridge
                        down-down
Chords: Em-C9-G-Dsus (Verse 1 & 2 and Chorus 1, 2 & 3)
        Chord diagramC majorC (at the end of the Chorus 1 & 3)
        C9-Em7 (at the end of the Chorus 2)
        Am-C-G-Dsus-Em (Bridge)
Note: All along the way, until to the end of the song, (except on the
      Bridge) put your ring finger on the 2nd string (Chord diagramBB string) & the pinky
      on the 1st string (high Chord diagramE MajorE string)

Verse 1:

               Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G
If I were a boy

     Chord diagramDsusDsus          Chord diagramE minorEm    Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDsusDsus
Even just for a day

         Chord diagramE minorEm         Chord diagramC9C9
I’d roll out of bed in the morning

    Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramDsusDsus        Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G
And throw on what I wanted and go

Chord diagramDsusDsus                    Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G
Drink beer with the guys

    Chord diagramDsusDsus             Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDsusDsus
And chase after girls

         Chord diagramE minorEm            Chord diagramC9C9
I’d kick it with who I wanted

    Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramDsusDsus
And I’d never get confronted for it

Chord diagramE minorEm             Chord diagramC9C9           Chord diagramG+G
Because they’d stick up for me

Chorus:

Chord diagramDsusDsus           Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G
If I were a boy

        Chord diagramDsusDsus             Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDsusDsus
I think I could understand

       Chord diagramE minorEm            Chord diagramC9C9
How it feels to love a girl

  Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramDsusDsus       Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G
I swear I’d be a better man

Chord diagramDsusDsus             Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G
I’d listen to her

        Chord diagramDsusDsus           Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramC9C9    Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDsusDsus
Cause I know how it hurts

         Chord diagramE minorEm           Chord diagramC9C9
When you lose the one you wanted

           Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramDsusDsus
Cause he’s taken you for granted

    Chord diagramC majorC
And everything you had got destroyed

Verse 2:

If I were a boy
I would turn off my phone
Tell everyone its broken
So they think
that I was sleeping alone
I’d put myself first
And make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waiting for me to come home

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted (wanted)
Cause he’s taken you for granted (granted)

    Chord diagramC9C9                           Chord diagramE minor 7Em7  Chord diagramA minorAm
And everything you had got destroyed

Bridge:

       Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramDsusDsus        Chord diagramA minorAm
It’s a little too late for you to come back

        Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramE minorEm
Say its just a mistake

           Chord diagramDsusDsus          Chord diagramA minorAm
Think I forgive you like that

       Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramE minorEm                Chord diagramDsusDsus
If you thought I would wait for you

    Chord diagramC majorC
You thought wrong


But you’re just a boy
You don’t understand (yea you don’t understand)
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you’ll wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you’ve taken her for granted

    Chord diagramC majorC
And everything you had got destroyed

                     Chord diagramE minorEm Chord diagramC9C9 Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramDsusDsus
But you’re just a boy

Other versions of If I Were A Boy

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