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Bowling For Soup

RockAdvanced for beginners7 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

A×
G#Diagram coming soon
D××
E
Dm××
BDiagram coming soon
Bm×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: A A/G# x4 
 
A                         D 
I think it's time that we move ahead 
       E                        A 
To the place we never wanted to go 
A                   D 
There's no sense in looking back 
        E             A (Stop) A/G# 
Let the final credits roll 
A                  D 
I could never live up to 
    E                  A 
The man that's in your head 
A                         D 
You want the guy from the notebook 
    E             A 
But you got me instead 
 
    D               Dm           (Stop) 
But you'll be sorry when I'm gone 
 
                   D       A 
I never said I was peeeeeerfect 
                   E           A 
Who the hell wants perfect anyway? 
                   D     A 
Sometimes I really f*ck up 
           E                 A 
But baby I learn from my mistakes 
                 D                    A 
And I don?t know what I'm supposed to be 
           D          A 
All that I ever am is me 
         B                              D 
And I'll never gonna change, here's the deal 
                      D     A     E 
I'm just trying to be real, real, real 
                       D      A     E 
I'm just trying to be real, real, real 
 
I never was the hip kid 
I always use words like hip 
Judas Priest on my walkman 
When culture club was the shit (I tumble for you) 
I drive a ?91 Volvo 
The a/c still works fine 
I'm happy with my Miller Lite 
While everyone's drinking wine 
 
'Cause it's less spilling, it tastes great 
 
I never said I was perfect 
Who the hell wants perfect anyway? 
Sometimes I really f*ck up 
But baby I learn from my mistakes 
And I don?t know what I'm supposed to be 
All that I ever am is me 
And I'll never gonna change, here's the deal 
I'm just trying to be real, real, real 
I'm just trying to be real, real, real 
 
E                 A                  D                 Bm 
You can have your gluten free pizza, I've got taco bell 
(?) 
E                A 
You can try your best to change me 
D                   Dm 
I just gotta be myself 
 
I never said I was perfect 
Who the hell wants perfect anyway? 
Sometimes I really f*ck up 
Baby I learn from my mistakes 
And I don?t know what I'm supposed to be 
All that I ever am is me 
And I'll never gonna change, here's the deal 
(Never gonna change) 
 
I never said I was perfect 
Who the hell wants perfect anyway? 
Sometimes I really f*ck up 
But baby I learn from my mistakes 
And I don?t know what I'm supposed to be 
All that I ever am is me 
And I'll never gonna change, here's the deal 
I'm just trying to be real, real, real 
I'm just trying to be real, real, real 
          
 

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Chord set

A · G# · D · E · Dm · B · Bm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.