Key: E
Introduction:
C G
You were the popular one, the popular chick
F C
It is what it is, now I'm popular-ish
C G
Standing on the field with your pretty pompoms
F C
Now you're working at the movies selling popular corn
C G
I could have been a mess but I never went wrong
F C
Cause I'm putting down my story in a popular song
C G F C
Ahh, I said I'm putting down my story in a popular song
C G F C
My problem, I never was a model,
C G F C
I never was a scholar, but you were always popular
C G F C
You were singing all the songs I don't know
C G
Now you're in the front row
F C
Cause my song is popular
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
F C
You're only ever who you were
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
F C
That's all you ever need to know
C G F C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
C G F C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
C G
Always on the lookout for someone to hate,
F C
Picking on me like a dinner plate
C G
You hid during classes and in between them
F C
Dunk me in the toilets now it's you that cleans them
C G
You tried to make me feel bad with the things you do
F C
It aint so funny when the jokes on you
C G
Ooh, the jokes on you
F C
Got everyone laughing, got everyone clapping, asking
C G
How do you look so cool?
F C
Cause that's the only thing that I learned at school, boy
C G F C
Uh huh,I said that's the only thing that I learned at school
C G F C
My problem, I never was a model,
C G F C
I never was a scholar, but you were always popular
C G F C
You were singing all the songs I don't know
C G
Now you're in the front row
F C
Cause my song is popular
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
F C
You're only ever who you were
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
F C
That's all you ever need to know
C G F C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
C G F C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
C G
All you ever need to know
F C
You're only ever who you were
C G
All you ever need to know
F C
You're only ever who you were
All you ever need to know
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
F C
You're only ever who you were
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
F C
You're only ever who you were
C G F C
Popular, I know about popular
C G
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
F C
That's all you ever need to know
C
That's all you ever need to know