I Was Gonna Be chords by Rachel Terekhov
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Capo on 5th
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Key: F
♫ Intro:
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C | C | Fmaj7 | Fmaj7 :
♫ Verse 1:
C C
Some don’t believe I’m a living soul,
Fmaj7 Fmaj7
just a bad mistake that needs to go.
C C
If my mama coulda just seen my face
G7 G7
maybe she woulda had me anyway.
♫ Verse 2:
C C
There are those who speak for me,
Fmaj7 Fmaj7
who fight for lives that they can’t see.
C C
But there are some who only mourn,
G7 G7
this life of mine if I were born.
♫ Chorus:
C C
All I wanted was a chance
Dm Dm
to learn to love and laugh and dance.
F Dm
But I was gone before I arrived,
F G
sent back to heaven on a starlight flight.
♫ Bridge 1: (Other Counting for the Bridge)
Am G F F
Yeah, I was gonna change the world,
F G C C
I was gonna be a girl.
♫ Verse 3:
C C
The first thing I was gonna do
Fmaj7 Fmaj7
was breathe and fall in love with you.
C C
But a couple weeks before I saw the light,
G7 G7
mine flickered out when you changed your mind.
♫ Chorus:
C C
All I wanted was a chance
Dm Dm
to learn to love and laugh and dance.
F Dm
But I was gone before I arrived,
F G
sent back to heaven on a starlight flight.
♫ Bridge 2: (Other Counting for the Bridge)
Am G F F
I was gonna have some curls,
F G C C
yeah, I was gonna be a boy.
Pre-♫ Outro:
Dm
I'm more than just some one night stand
C
or some burden that you think I am.
Dm G G
And there ain’t no man ever gonna be
C C
what I was gonna be.
♫ Outro: (Partial Reprise of Verse 1]
C C
Some don’t believe I’m a living soul,
Fmaj7 Fmaj7
just a bad mistake that needs to go.
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