'Cause I Am a Boy (clean)
Words by Zion Valencic © Feb 2024
TTTO When I Was a Boy by Frank Hayes


C       F          C
When I was a kid my mother
    F                        C
Would force me to put on a dress
       F                      C
Every Sunday we’d head to the church house,
       D                    G
Where I’d sit in excess distress.

      C               F        C
Now when I attend formal functions
       F           C
I put on a binder and shirt.
        F                           Am
I’ve learned how to tie my own bowtie
       D             G
And my ribs only kinda hurt.
	
         F                   C
And I’ve lathered myself in testosterone
                   F        C
Every day that I could,
	  F                     C
	To grow facial hair, leg hair, and butt hair
	             D        G
	All signs of inner manhood.
	      F                        C
	By the second month my muscles were swelling
	     F                C
	A change that I really enjoy,
	       F                                      Am
	And Politians won’t let me go pee now,
                   G     C
	’Cause I am a boy.
	
	


     C       F           C
When I was a child I could never
         F                        C
Stand to look at myself in the mirror
    F                           C
I didn’t learn how to take selfies
        D                   G
And I didn’t know  I was queer.

        C           F              C
Now whenever I go to a barbershop
       F                         C
I pray they won’t give me a pixie.
          F                           Am
And just when I think that I’m passin’
      D                  G
They spray me flowered perfum-ee

	         F                   C
	And I’ve lathered myself in testosterone
                    F        C
	Every day that I could,
	  F                     C
	To grow facial hair, leg hair, and butt hair
	             D        G
	All signs of inner manhood.
	          F                    C
	By the fourth month my smell was quite different
                  F                C
	A change that I really enjoy,
	       F                                      Am
	And Politians won’t let me have a passport,
                      G         C
	’Cause I am a boy.

     C       F        C
When I was an egg my search history
        F                    C
Was full of O.T. and of Jamie
       F                     C
I stuffed socks inside of my trousers,
      D                         G
Dressed in hoodies and old graphic tees.

       C           F         C
Now I have bits I bought on a website
        F                     C
Which I wear round my waist in a bag
       F                               Am
And I’m saving up money for surgery
    D                       G
To get rid of the large bits that sag.

	         F                   C
	And I’ve lathered myself in testosterone
                  F        C
	Every day that I could,
	  F                     C
	To grow facial hair, leg hair, and butt hair
	             D        G
	All signs of inner manhood.
	          F                    C
	By the sixth month my voice started dropping
     F                C
	A change that I really enjoy,
	       F                                      Am
	And Politician won’t let me exist now,
                         G     C
	’Cause I am a boy.