Beauty School Dropout [C] - Frankie Avalon
[Verse 1 (Single Strum)]
C Am Dm G
Your story's sad to tell, a teenage ne'er-do-well
Em Am Dm
Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block [G]
Em A Dm G
Your future's so unclear now, What's left of your career now
C Am F
Can't even get a trade-in on your smock [G]
[Instrumental (Strumming)]
(C)(Am)(Dm)(G) x2
|Chorus 1:
| C Am Dm G
|Beauty school drop-out, no graduation day for you
| C Am Dm G
|Beauty school drop-out, missed your midterms and flunked shampoo
| C Am Dm G
|Well at least you could have taken time to wash and clean your clothes up
| Em Am Dm G
|After spending all that dough to have the doctor fix your nose up
Verse 2:
C Am Dm G
Baby get moving why keep your feeble hopes alive
C Am Dm G
What are you proving? You've got the dream, but not the drive
C C+ F Fm
If you go for your diploma, you could join the steno pool
C G C
Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school [Am] [Dm] [G]
|Chorus 2:
| C
|Beauty school drop-out, [Am]
| Dm G
|hangin' around the corner store
| C
|Beauty school drop-out, [Am]
| F G
|it's about time you knew the score
| C Am
|Well they couldn't teach you anything,
| Dm G
|you think you're such a looker
| Em Am
|But no customer would go to you,
|un[Dm]less she was a [G*] hooker!
Verse 3:
C
Baby don't sweat it, [Am]
Dm G
you're not cut out to hold a job
C
Better forget it, [Am]
F G
who wants their hair done by a slob
C C+
Now your bangs are curled, your lashes twirled,
F Fm
But still the world is cruel
C Am Dm G C
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school [G]
Bridge:
C
Baby don't blow it, [Am]
Dm G
don't put my good advice to shame
C
Baby you know it, [Am]
F G
Even Dear Abby'd say the same
C C+ F Fm
Now I've called the shot, get off the pot, I really gotta fly
[Slowly]
C Dm G C
Gotta be goin' to that malt shop .... in the sky [Am] [C] [Am]
Outro:
C
Beauty school drop-out, [Am]
C
go back to high school [Am]
C
Beauty school drop-out, [Am]
C
go back to high school [Am]
C
Beauty school drop-out, [Am]
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go back to high school