I Wish I Was A Girl Uke tab by Counting Crows

9 Chords used in the song: E, Esus4, G#m, A, B, C#m, F#sus4, F#, F#m

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Artist: Counting Crows

Album: This Desert Life

Year: 1999

Difficulty:

6.72

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Key: EChords

# For easier version, try -2 down, Capo on 2nd fret

INTRO
E   Esus4   E   Esus4

VERSE 1
E                     Esus4
   The devil's in the dreamin'
                       E
He tells you I'm not sleepin'
       Esus4      E
In my hotel room alone
E                    Esus4
   With nothing to believe in
                  E
You dive into the traffic rising up
Esus4        E
And it's so quiet
you're surprised and then you wake

PRE-CHORUS
G#m                           A
    For all the things you're losing
                  E
You might as well resign yourself
      Esus4       E
to try and make a change
G#m                       A
    And I'm going down to Hollywood
                     B
They're gonna make a movie from the things
That they find crawling round my brain

CHORUS
A    B            C#m
   I wish I was a girl
   B              A
So that you could believe me
    B                  C#m
And I could shake this static
      A
Every time I try to sleep
  B                 C#m       B
I wish for all the world that I could say
     E                                 F#sus4  F#
Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
      A      B
These days

INTERLUDE
E   Esus4   E   Esus4    E

VERSE 2
E                     Esus4
The devil's in the dreamin',
                    E
You see yourself descending
         Esus4           E
From the building to the ground
E                    Esus4
And you watch the sky receding
                        E 
And you spin to see the traffic rising up
Esus4        E
and it's so quiet
and you're surprised and then you wake

PRE-CHORUS
G#m                           A
    For all the things you're losing
                  E
You might as well resign yourself
      Esus4       E
to try and make a change
G#m                       A
    And I'm going down to Hollywood
                     B
They're gonna make a movie from the things
That they find crawling round my brain

CHORUS
A    B            C#m
   I wish I was a girl
   B              A
So that you could believe me
    B                  C#m
And I could shake this static
      A
Every time I try to sleep
  B                 C#m       B
I wish for all the world that I could say
     E                                 F#sus4  F#
Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
      A      B
These days

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

PRE-CHORUS
G#m                           A
    For all the things you're losing
                  E
You might as well resign yourself
      Esus4       E
to try and make a change
G#m                       A
    And I'm going down to Hollywood
                     B
They're gonna make a movie from the things
That they find crawling round my brain

CHORUS

A    B            C#m
   I wish I was a girl
   B              A
So that you could believe me
    B                  C#m
And I could shake this static
      A
Every time I try to sleep
  B                 C#m       B
I wish for all the world that I could say
     E                                 F#sus4  F#
Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
      A      B
These days
              F#m     A B
Well I can't sleep at night
              F#m     A B
Well I can't sleep at night
              F#m     A B
Well I can't sleep at night
              F#m     A B
Well I can't sleep at night