Boy chords by Maisie Peters

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

C#m



🎸 Verse 1:
 C#m                   A
I heard you had a lot of therapy
 E
When you were seventeen
   B
For your anger issues
  C#m              A
If I had a pound for every hole
  E
I saw punched in a wall
    B
I'd be a rich girl yeah
   C#m                A
In love is something that you'll never be
   E                   B
It got progressively harder to miss you
    C#m        A     E      B
And you should take this personally

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
  C#m
You're a serial cheater
   A
'You up?' text repeater
  E                            B
When I told you you were funny I lied
 C#m                                      A
You're a 'love 'em and leave 'еm' with a terrible reason
  E                          B
Shh, now is not thе time to reply


🎸 Chorus:
 C#m                A               E                  B
Boy you think I'm dumb, tryna pull one on me like I've never been kissed
 C#m              A                  E                 B
You had a couple of exes and I know that they let you get away with it

But you're a
C#m   A
Boy
  E          B                          C#m
And I can tell that you've never been hugged
 A
Boy
 E                    B
And I can do better than this

Oh, better than this


Post-🎸 Chorus:
C#m            A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
E
I can do better than
 B
I can do better than this
 C#m            A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
 E
I can do better than
  B
I can do better than this


🎸 Verse 2:
 C#m                            A
You said I'd meet your friends eventually
   E
When you're ready to be
     B
A little more exclusive
 C#m                   A
If I was the last girl on earth
               E
You'd still be weighing up your options, mm
 C#m                    A
You said you got a lot of enemies
  E                        B
And you claim your dreams are always lucid
 C#m            A          E         B
But you're just high and can't tell the difference


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
 C#m
She tries to get closer
  A
So you go and ghost her
   E         B
Like it's perpetual Halloween
  C#m
You're obsessed with your father
 A                     E
Red flag and a half, yeah
      B
Babe, we could unpack it for weeks


🎸 Chorus:
 C#m               A                 E                   B
Boy you think I'm dumb, tryna pull one on me like I've never been kissed
 C#m                A                E                 B
You had a couple of exes and I know that they let you get away with it

But you're a
 C#m  A
Boy
  E         B                            C#m
And I can tell that you've never been hugged
 A
Boy
 E              B
And I can do better than this
 B
Oh, better than this


Post-🎸 Chorus:
C#m             A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
E
I can do better than
B
I can do better than this
C#m           A          E          B
La la la la la la la la la la la la la


🎸 Bridge:
C#m
You're kinda sociopathic
 A
I nearly buried the hatchet
 E                                B
Then I remembered how you messed with my head
C#m
I could be a grown-up
A
But, baby, you know what
E                          B
Maybe I release this song instead


🎸 Chorus:
 C#m               A
Boy you think I'm dumb
           E                     B
Tryna pull one on me like I've never been kissed
 C#m              A              E                               B
You had a couple of exes and I know that they let you get away with it

But you're a
 C#m   A
Boy (laugh)
  E         B                           C#m
And I can tell that you've never been hugged
 A
Boy
 E         B
And I can do better than this
      C#m
Oh, better than this


Post-🎸 Chorus:
 C#m            A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
E
I can do better than
B
I can do better than this
C#m             A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
 E
I can do better than
 B
I can do better than this
C#m              A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
 E
Better than you
 B
Better than you
 C#m
Better than this
  A
La la la la la la la la la la la la la
 E
Better than you
  B
Better than you
  C#m
Better than this
 C#m
Boy