I Wish I Was A Girl

Counting Crows

Composed by: Adam Duritz / Charlie Gillingham / Counting Crows
key: E Tuning: E A D G B E
E    Esus4     E    Esus4

[Verse 1]
E                    Esus4                          E                          Esus4
  The devil's in the dreaming, he tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
E                   Esus4                       E
  With nothing to believe in, you dive into the traffic rising up, and it's so quiet
                              G#m
You're surprised and then you wake

[Pre Chorus]
G#m                            A                          E                Esus4          E
     For all the things you're losing you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
G#m                  A                               B
   I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling
B
 round my brain

[Chorus]
A      B            C#m     B                A
     I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
        B                  C#m         B             A
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
        B                C#m        B                 E                            F#          A
  I wish for all the world that I could say, "Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days"

[Solo]
E    Esus4     E    Esus4

[Verse 2]
     E             Esus4                         E
The devil's in the dreaming, you see yourself descending from a building to the ground
E                      Esus4                       E
   You watch the sky receding, you spin to see the traffic rising up and it's so quiet
                              G#m
You're surprised and then you wake

[Pre Chorus]
G#m                            A                          E                Esus4          E
     For all the things you're losing you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
G#m                 A                               B
  I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling
B
 round my brain

[Chorus]
A      B            C#m     B                A
     I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
        B                  C#m         B             A
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
        B                C#m        B                 E                            F#          A
  I wish for all the world that I could say, "Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days"

[Solo]
E

[Bridge]
                    A
And in one of these dreams
       E
You forgive me
                                F#m
It makes me think of  the bad decisions
     A                           E                A
That keep you at home, how could anyone else have changed?
F#m
   But these are wrong conclusions
     A                          E          A
That leave you alone, How could everyone rearrange?
          E                           A               F#m     A        G#m
How could everyone else have changed? What I see,  I believe

[Pre Chorus]
G#m                            A                          E                Esus4          E
     For all the things you're losing you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
G#m                 A                               B
  I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling
B
round my brain

[Chorus]
A      B            C#m     B                A
     I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
        B                  C#m         B             A
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
        B                C#m        B                 E                            F#          A
  I wish for all the world that I could say, "Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days"

[Solo]
A     A     A
F#m      A B
F#m      A B

[Outro]
             F#m      A  B
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
             F#m      A  B
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
             F#m      A  B
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
             F#m      A  B
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
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