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Beauty School Dropout - Frankie Avalon

[Verse 1] {blue}(Single Strum){/blue}
     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] {blue}(Strumming){/blue}
(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]
           C   
go back to  high school

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