Grease – Beauty School Dropout chords

SONG: Beauty School Dropout
ARTIST: Warren Casey & Jim Jacobs

From the musical, Grease

Intro:

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/BCan't even get a trade-in on your smock

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              D#       CmBeauty school drop-out, 
        Fm7           A#no graduation day for you
              D#       CmBeauty 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                Fm7After spending all that dough to have the doctor
         A#fix your nose up 

         D#     CmBaby get moving,
              Fm7           A#why keep your feeble hopes alive
             D#      CmWhat are you proving?
               G#                 A#You've got the dream, but not the drive
       D#            D#+              G#             C#9If 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

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              E        C#mBeauty school drop-out, 
         F#m7                Bhangin' around the corner store
              E        C#mBeauty school drop-out, 
           A                 Bit's about time you knew the score
          E                  C#mWell they couldn't teach you anything,
    F#m7                Byou think you're such a looker
       G#m            C#mBut no customer would go to you,
  F#m            Bunless she was a hooker
           E       C#mBaby don't sweat it,
               F#m7          Byou're not cut out to hold a job
       E        C#mBetter forget it, 
                A              Bwho wants their hair done by a slob
         E                      E+Now your bangs are curled, your lashes twirled,
    A                  D9But still the world is cruel
              E  -  C#m   -  F#m7  - B   -   E       BWipe off that angel face and go back to high school


           E       C#mBaby don't blow it, 
             F#m7           B7-9don't put my good advice to shame
         E       C#mBaby you know it, 
          A              BEven Dear Abby'd say the same
         E                    E+             A            D9Now I've called the shot, get off the pot, I really gotta fly
         E  -  C#m  -  F#m7  -  B  -   EGotta be goin' to that maltshop in the sky

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              E       C#mBeauty school drop-out, 
           E6/9   go back to high school