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Introduction: D#6(9)
D# Cm7 Fm7 A#
Your story's sad to tell, a teenage ne'er-do-well
Gm7 Cm7 Fm7 A#
Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block
Gm7 C7
Your future's so unclear now,
Fm7 C#9
what's left of your career now
D# Cm7 G#m6/B
Can't even get a trade-in on your smock
D# Cm
Beauty school drop-out,
Fm7 A#
no graduation day for you
D# Cm
Beauty school drop-out,
G#
missed your midterms
A#
and flunked shampoo
D#
Well at least you could have
Cm Fm7 A#
taken time to wash and clean your clothes up
Gm Cm Fm7
After spending all that dough to have the doctor
A#
fix your nose up
D# Cm
Baby get moving,
Fm7 A#
why keep your feeble hopes alive
D# Cm
What are you proving?
G# A#
You've got the dream, but not the drive
D# G# C#9
If you go for your diploma, you could join the steno pool
D# Cm Fm7 A# D#
Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school
E C#m
Beauty school drop-out,
F#m7 B
hangin' around the corner store
E C#m
Beauty school drop-out,
A B
it's about time you knew the score
E C#m
Well they couldn't teach you anything,
F#m7 B
you think you're such a looker
G#m C#m
But no customer would go to you,
F#m B
unless she was a hooker
E C#m
Baby don't sweat it,
F#m7 B
you're not cut out to hold a job
E C#m
Better forget it,
A B
who wants their hair done by a slob
E
Now your bangs are curled, your lashes twirled,
A D9
But still the world is cruel
E C#m F#m7 B E B
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school
E C#m
Baby don't blow it,
F#m7 B7(b9)
don't put my good advice to shame
E C#m
Baby you know it,
A B
Even Dear Abby'd say the same
E A D9
Now I've called the shot, get off the pot, I really gotta fly
E C#m F#m7 B E
Gotta be goin' to that maltshop in the sky
E C#m
Beauty school drop-out,
E6(9)
go back to high school