I Wish I Was a Girl by Counting Crows - guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics

Esus4

this riff until...

"You're surprised, and then you wake."

Prechorus

	G#m	A
	For all the things you're	losing.

	E	Esus4	E
You might as well re	sign yourself 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 be	lieve me

	B	C#m	B
And	I could shake this	static every	time

	A
I try to	sleep

	B	C#m
I	wish for all the	world

	B
That	I could say

	E	F#
"Hey, E	lizabeth, you know I'm doing all r	ight

	A	B
These	days."

Teh Bridge

The E riff...

and then...this with the E riff after another verse, or two and a chorus

----------------
--9--9--7--7----
----9--9--9--9--
----------------
----------------
----------------

	A
And in one of thes	e dreams

	E
You forg	ive 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 rearr	ange?

	E	A
How could	everyone else have	changed?

	F#m	A
What I	see I be	lieve.

	E
	For all the things I'm losing

	E	Esus4	E
I might as well r	esign myself 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 again

Second bridge

(counting crows have so many wonderful emotional changes in their songs)

F#m

	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.

"I wish I was a Girl" By the counting crows

From "This Desert Life" Tabbed by Snap

h:hammer on

b:bend

Rhythmn part (verse & intro)

e---0----0----0----0------------------
B---0----0----0----0------------------
G---1----2----1----1------------------
D---2----2----2----2------------------
A---2----2----2----2------------------
E---0----0----0----0------------------

Lead part (intro)

(x2) (2nd time)

e-----0---7------0---7-----0-0-0-0---0--- ---0--0---------
B--0h9--9---7-0h9--9---7-0h5-4-2-0-0h5--- ---7--9b--------
G---------------------------------------- ----------------
D---------------------------------------- ----------------
A---------------------------------------- ----------------
E---------------------------------------- ----------------

Pre-chorus (rhyhtmn) (For all......)

e----------0--------------------------
B----------0--------------------------
G----------1--------------------------
D--6---7---2---6---7---9--------------
A--6---7---2---6---7---9--------------
E--4---5---0---4---5---7--------------

chorus(rhythmn)

(x4) (4th time)

e----------------- --------------------
B----------------- --------------------
G----------6---8-- --9-----------2-----
D--7---9---6---8-- --9---2---4---2-----
A--7---9---4---6-- --7---2---4---0-----
E--5---7---------- ------0---2---------

*the chorus part for lead guitar is the same thing as the intro

Bridge (lead) (and one of these.........)

(x8)

e--4---4---2---0---2---0------
B----5---5--------------------
G-----------------------------
D-----------------------------
A-----------------------------
E-----------------------------

Bridge (rhythmn)

e-----------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------
G--2-----------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2----
D--2---2---4---2---2---2---4---2---2---2---2---2---4---2----
A--0---2---4---0---2---0---4---0---2---0---2---0---4---0----
E------0---2-------0-------2-------0-------0-------2--------

Outro

(x4)

e----------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------
G--2-------4-----------------------------
D--2---2---4-----------------------------
A--0---2---2-----------------------------
E------0---------------------------------

This is a cool song, if its a bit confusing then listen to the actual

song and it will make sense,listen to the song fer the rhythmn and the

strumming.