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I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mothers Heart by White Stripes
I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mothers Heart
Verse: D, C, G
Chorus/Bridge: F, G, D (D, Dsus4) , F, G, A(A, Asus4)
End: A, D
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Lyrics:
I want to be the boy to warm your mother's heart
I'm so scared to take you away
I tried to win her over right from the start
But something always goti nt he way
We've been sitting in your backyard for hours
But she won't even come out and say hi
While my mother baked a little cake for you
And even dreaded when you said goodbye
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?
I'm inclined to go finish hight school
Just to make her notice that I'm around
Well nothing I come up with seems to work
It feels like everything I say is a lie
And never have I felt like such a jerk
I'm afraid to even open my eyes
Because I really don't want her to judge me
I want her to really know who I am
And the, and only then will she love me
Well at least that was the plan
If ever a boy needed a holiday
If ever a girl needed someone to hold
I just hope I don't act the same way
By the time that I get that old
I never said I was the heir to a fortune
I never claimed to have any looks
But these kind of things must be important
Because somebody ripped out my page
In your telephone book
I want to warm her heart
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version 2
INTRO/VERSE
This tune starts with piano playing D, C and G.
|----2--|-----0--3--|
|----3--|-----1--3--|
|----2--|-----0--0--|
|-0--0--|-----2--0--|
|-------|--3--3--2--|
|-------|--------3--|
D C G
A clean guitar plays a little arpeggio over the top, something like:
|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
|-------7-------------7-------|-------5---------------------|
|---------7-------------7-----|---------5-----------4-------|
|----7------7------7------7---|----5------5-----------5-----|
|-5-------------5-------------|-3----------------5------5---|
|-----------------------------|---------------3-------------|
D C G
RIFF TWO
('What kind of cartwheels...')
w/ overdriven guitar (* see note -------------------)
|-------------------|-----------------|----------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-----------------|-----7----------|----7------7---|
|-----2-------2-----|-----4-------4---|-7---7-----7-5-/|-7--7------7---|
|-3---3---3---3--3-/|-5---5---5---5---|-7---7-----7-5-/|-7--7----7-7---|
|-3---3---3---3--3-/|-5---5---5---5---|-5---5-----5-3-/|-5--5----5-5---|
|-1---1---1---1--1-/|-3---3---3---3---|----------------|-------------0-|
F G D D
(*2 see note ------------------)
|-------------------|-----------------|----------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-----------------|----------------|---------------|
|-----2-------2-----|-----4-------4---|-----6---------/|----6------6---|
|-3---3---3---3--3-/|-5---5---5---5---|-7---7-----7-5-/|-7--7------7---|
|-3---3---3---3--3-/|-5---5---5---5---|-7---7-----7-5-/|-7--7----7-7---|
|-1---1---1---1--1-/|-3---3---3---3---|-5---5-----5-3--|-5--5----5-5---|
F G A A
* NB: This two bar D bitty is accompanied by piano playing something
like:
(let ring)
|---------2-----------2h3---2-----|-2---2-----2---2---2-----2-------|
|---------3-----------3-----3-----|-1h3-1-----3---3---3-----3p1---3-|
|---------2-----2-----2-----2-----|-2---2-----2---2---2-----2-----2-|
|-0-----------0---0---------------|-0-------0-------------0---------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
1 x x x 2 x x x 3 x x x 4 x x x 1 x x x 2 x x x 3 x x x 4 x x x
*2 NB: Similar thing in these two bars:
(let ring)
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------2-----------2h3---2-----|-2---2-----2---2---2-------------|
|---------2-----------2-----2-----|-0h2-0-----2---2---2-----2p0-0h2-|
|---------2-----2-----2-----2-----|-2---2-----2---2---2-----2-----2-|
|-0-----------0---0---------------|-0-------0-------------0-----0---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
1 x x x 2 x x x 3 x x x 4 x x x 1 x x x 2 x x x 3 x x x 4 x x x
FILL
This is played before 2nd verse and is also the rhythm for the slide
guitar lead. Basically, we're back to the D, C, G progression... with a
twist:
(piano) *3
|-------------------------------|----------------|------------------|
|--------7-----8p7-------8p7----|--------5-------|------------------|
|--------7---------7-----7---7--|----------5-----|-----4--4-\-2-----|
|-7------------------7---7------|----5-------5---|-----5--5-\-3-----|
|-5---5------5------------------|-3--------------|-----5--5-\-3-----|
|-------------------------------|----------------|-0h3-3--3-\-1-----|
*3 NB: This bar has a distorted guitar playing the same chords.
Back to verse, with a more prominent overdriven guitar playing the
basically the same chords as the initial verse riff. Then to Riff Two
again . . . then the dreaded slide guitar.
SLIDE LEAD
If there is a note in brackets/parentheses after or before a slide, this
means don't pick the note, just slide to it (a legato slide). Make all
these slides as long and slow as possible (or use a slide, I suppose).
(last bar of Riff Two)
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---------------------------7--|
-----7-------7-------7-----7--|
-5/7-----5/7-----5/7---5/7----|
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(let ring) x4
||---------------------------5-\-|------------------------------------||
||/-7---7------\(5)/(7)---7------|/-----5---/--(12)-12--12-\(10)-\----||
||/-7-----7----\(5)/(7)---7------|/---5----/---(12)-12--12-\(10)--\--*||
||/-7-------7--\(5)/(7)----------|/-5-----/----(12)-12--12-\(10)---\-*||
||-------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------|------------------------------------||
This is the general idea. There variations on each repeat.
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