Standard (EADGBE)

 When I grow up to be a man

 Will I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?

 Will I look back and say that I wish I hadn't done what I did?

 Will I joke around and still dig those sounds?

 When I grow up to be a man

 Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?

(fourteen fifteen)

 Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?

(sixteen seventeen)

 Well I'm young and free, but how will it be?

 When I grow up to be a man

 Will my kids be proud or think their old man is really a square?

(eighteen nineteen)

 When they're out having fun yeah, will I still wanna have my share?

(twenty twenty-one)

 Will I love my wife, for the rest of my life?

 When I grow up to be a man

 What will I be?

 When I grow up to be a man

(twenty-two twenty-three)

 Won't last forever

(twenty-four twenty-five)

 It's kind of sad

(twenty-six twenty-seven)

 Won't last forever

(twenty-eight twenty-nine)

 It's kind of sad

(thirty thirty-one)

 Won't last forever

(thirty-two...)