Intro}
CCFG (x2)
Verse 1CFG
Take a left here boy, take it slow
CFG
Don't get distracted by that radio
CFG
I just rolled my eyes and I said, "Daddy, I know"
CFG
I'm fifteen, I ain't green like some ol' ten year old
ChorusCFG
What I wouldn't give to be sixteen, wild and free
CFG
Cruisin' up and down main in my F-150
CFG
Roll the windows down, bass too loud from this burnt CDCF
I'll be right where I wanna be when I'm sixteen
GCFG
Sixteen, yeah
Verse 2CFG
Now that I can drive, finally feel alive, but I got this curfew
CFG
Sneakin' in late, smelling like my girlfriend's perfume
CFG
People talk about college and knowledge and that's alright
C
But all I'm thinkin' 'bout is an unsupervised Saturday night
Chorus 2CFG
What I wouldn't give to be eighteen, wild and free
CFG
Buzzin' off a can of the grizzly wintergreen
CFG
Lookin' old enough to pull off this fake IDCF
I'll be right where I wanna be when I'm eighteen
CFCF
Eighteen, yeah
BridgeAm
I'm old enough to smoke
F
I'm old enough to vote
CG
But they turn me away when I go to the Cotton Eyed Joe
Am
They say the grass is always greener
F
And I believe that's right
CG
But my friends are off to Vegas, they're leavin' me behind
Chorus 3CFG
What I wouldn't give to be twenty one, wild and free
CF
Open up a cold one and drink it legally
CF
Chase a bunch of girls, go see the world
G
Let my wild streak run
C
I'll be right where I wanna be
FGCFG
When I'm twenty one, twenty one
CFG
(woah, when I'm twenty one)
CF
(yeah, when I'm twenty one, it'll be alright
GCFG
(yeah, it'll be alright, when I'm twenty one)
OutroCFG
Now I'm twenty five and I'm drinking wine with my wife at home
CFG
Got a couple of dogs and a couple of songs on the radio
CFGC
And we sit around and we laugh about how we used to be
C
When all we cared about was turning sixteen
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.