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Beauty School Dropout - 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    G
Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block
     Em            A                 Dm             G
Your future's so unclear now, What's left of your career now
      C             Am            F     G
Can't even get a trade-in on your smock

[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      Am Dm G       
Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school

|Chorus 2:
|              C        Am
|Beauty school drop-out, 
|         Dm                G
|hangin' around the corner store
|              C        Am
|Beauty school drop-out, 
|           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        Am
Baby don't sweat it,
               Dm            G
you're not cut out to hold a job
          C        Am
Better forget it, 
                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       G
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school

Bridge:
           C       Am
Baby don't blow it, 
             Dm            G
don't put my good advice to shame
         C       Am
Baby you know it, 
          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    Am    C   Am
Gotta be goin' to that malt shop ....in the sky

Outro:
              C       Am
Beauty school drop-out, 
           C            Am
go back to high school

C       Am
Beauty school drop-out, 
           C           Am
go back to high school

C       Am
Beauty school drop-out, 
           C   
go back to high school

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