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When I Grow Up Guitar Tablature
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                     "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)"
                             (Brian Wilson)

Intro:

	  C7-5/Gb         Db Cm Bbm Ab
	When I grow up to be     a  man

Verse 1:

	        Ab                       Eb7             Ab
	Will I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?
	        Ab                       Eb7                       Ab
	Will I look back and say that I wish I hadn't done what I did?
	       Bbm7        Eb7                      Cm7     Fm7
	Will I joke around     and still dig those sounds
	  C7-5/Gb         Db Cm Bbm Ab  Db
	When I grow up to be     a man?

Verse 2:

	Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?
	Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?
	Now I'm young and free, but how will it be
	  C7-5/Gb         Db Cm Bbm [Bb]
	When I grow up to be     a man?

Instrumental break (chord variations implied by background voices):
	
	Bb    Bbmaj7     Bb7     Bb6
	 /   /   /   /    /   /   /   /
	Ebm   Ebm(+7)    Ebm7    Db
	 /   /   /   /    /   /   /   /
	Bb    Bbmaj7     Bb7     Bb6
	 /   /   /   /    /   /   /   /
	Ebm              Eb7
	 /   /   /   /    /   /   /   /

Verse 3:

	Will my kids be proud or think their old man is really a square?
	When they're out having fun yeah, will I still wanna have my share?
	Will I love my wife for the rest of my life
	  C7-5/Gb         Db Cm Bbm A          Bm C#m D
	When I grow up to be     a man - what will I be?

	   C#7-5/G        D C#m Bm A
	When I grow up to be    a man?

Coda (repeat to fade):

	A                  Bm    Dm                A
	    Won't last forever       It's kind of sad


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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