Because I'm A Boy Acoustic tab

Because I'm A Boy Acoustic

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                             BECAUSE I'M A BOY ACOUSTIC - Mac Demarco (Makeout Videotape)
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Tabbed by: Jonathan Hawkins
E-mail: n/a

Tuning: D A D F? A d (open D)


This tab is based off of Mac's acoustic performance in this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOACZCsTZak -
video. The studio version of this song can be played with a capo on the second fret.


I do not know chord shapes and names in non-standard tunings, which is why I have assigned each of the 5 chords
used in this song a name based on their lowest ~non-open~ note. Luckily this song is very simple, so memorizing
these chords and their sequence should be easily manageable.

Palm mute liberally.


    Chord 2      Chord 7       Chord 5       Chord 9         Chord 8       
 d|---0-----  ------0-----  ------0----  -------0-----  -------0-------         
 A|---2-----  ------0-----  ------0----  -------9-----  -------0-------       
F#|---3-----  ------7-----  ------5----  -------10----  -------8-------           
 D|---4-----  ------0-----  ------0----  -------11----  -------9-------           
 A|---0-----  ------9-----  ------7----  -------0-----  -------0-------          
 D|---0-----  ------0-----  ------0----  -------0-----  -------9-------           


        Fill 1                            Fill 2                           Fill 3
 d|-----------------------    ----------------------------     --0---0-0-0------
 A|-----------------------    ----------------------------     --2h4-4-4-4------
F#|-----------------------    ----------------------------     --3---3-3-3------
 D|-----------------------    ----------------------------     --4---4-4-4------
 A|--0---2----------------    -------------9---7----------     --0---0-0-0------
 D|----------2----4/9---0-    ----9---12------------------     --0---0-0-0------
                                        \
                                         use pinkie



    Verse 1                                                                    

Chord 2--------------Fill 1---------------Chord7---Chord 5------Chord 9-------
She'd  be  fine.....  with  a  heart  like  mine..................

                                                                     
Chord 2--------------Fill 1-------------Chord7---Chord 5------Chord 9-------
could  she  be.....   with  a  boy  like  me......................


Chord 8------Chord 5----Chord 7------Chord 8---Fill 2
and  I'll  be okay...     living  this  way...

                   
Chord 5--------Chord 9----------
'cause  I'm  a  boy.......



   Interlude

Chord 2--------------------


   Verse 2                                                                  

Chord 2----------------Fill 1-------------Chord7---Chord 5------Chord 9-------
When  she's near.....   things  become  so  clear...............

            (Fill 3)                                                       
Chord 2-------^^^----Fill 1--------------Chord7---Chord 5------Chord 9-------
I  need  she......    woe  and  she  need  me...................


Chord 8----------Chord 5--Chord 7-----------Chord 8---Fill 2
please  I  need  time.....  I  know  I'll  be  fine....


Chord 5--------Chord 9----------
'cause  I'm  a  boy.....


Chord 5--------Chord 9----------
'cause  I'm  a  boy.....


Chord 5--------Chord 9----------
'cause  I'm  a  boy.....

    
     Outro
                                                                                              
Chord 2----------Fill 3Chord 2--------Fill 3Chord 2----------Fill 3Chord 2--Fill 1Chord 2

     End


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... - rough duration of singing
| /   slide up
--- rough duration of guitar chord or fill

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