Tom: D
 
D                                   C
I want to be the boy to warm your mother’s heart
         G                 D       
I’m so scared to take you away
                                C
I tried to win her over right from the start
       G                         D
But something always got in the way
                                         C
We’ve been sitting in your backyard for hours
         G                          D
But she won’t even come out and say hi
                                C
While my mother baked a little cake for you
            G                     F
And even dreaded when you said goodbye
 

F                                     G
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?
                                       D
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?
F                                G
I’m inclined to go finish high school
                                   A
Just to make her notice that I’m around
 

D / C / G (2x)
Well nothing I come up with seems to work

It feels like everything I say is a lie

And never have I felt like such a jerk

I’m afraid to even open my eyes

Because I really don’t want her to judge me

I want her to really know who I am

And then, and only then will she love me

Well at least that was the plan
 
If ever a boy needed a holiday

If ever a girl needed someone to hold

I just hope I don’t act the same way

By the time that I get that old
 

D / C / G (4x)
 
F                                     G
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?
                                       D
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?
F                                G
I’m inclined to go finish high school
                                   A
Just to make her notice that I’m around
D / C / G (2x)
 
I never said I was the heir to a fortune
I never claimed to have any looks
But these kind of things must be important
Because somebody ripped out my page in your telephone book
I want to warm her heart