Chords for Don't Stay in School

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Eb

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Ab

Gm

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Don't Stay in School chords
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[Ab] [Gm]
[Cm] I wasn't taught how to get a job, [Eb] but I can remember dissecting a frog.
[Cm] I wasn't taught how to pay tax, [Eb] but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics.
I was [Cm] never taught how to vote, they devoted that time to defining isotopes.
I [Cm] wasn't taught how to look after my health, but [Eb] mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Never spent a lesson on current events, [Bb] instead I studied the old American West.
[Cm] I was never taught what laws there are.
[Eb] I was never taught what laws there are.
Let me [Gm] repeat, I was not taught the laws for the country I live in,
but I know how Henry VIII killed his women.
[Cm] Divorce beheaded, died.
Divorce beheaded, survived.
[Eb] Glad that's in my head instead of financial [Cm] advice.
I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light,
[Eb] but I was never taught my human rights.
[Ab] Apparently there's 30.
Do you know them?
I don't.
Why [Eb] the hell can't we both recite them if [Cm] I wrote I know?
Here's metamorphic and sedimentary boxy, [Bb] I don't know squat about trading stocks
or [Ab] how money works at all.
Where does it come from?
[Eb] How does the thing that motivates the [Cm] world function?
Not taught to budget and disperse my [Eb] earnings.
I was too busy there rehearsing cursive.
[Cm] Didn't learn how much it costs to raise a kid and what an affidavit is,
but I [Eb] spent days on what the quadratic [Cm] equation is.
Negative b plus or minus the square root of [Bb] b squared minus 4ac over 2a.
That's [Cm] insane, that's absolutely insane.
They [Eb] made me learn that over basic first aid,
or how to recognize the most deadly mental disorders or diseases with preventable causes,
or how to buy [Cm] a house with a mortgage if I could afford it,
because [Eb] abstract maths was deemed more [Ab] important than advice
that would literally save thousands [Eb] of lives.
But it's cool, because [Cm] now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths
[Eb] caused by that choice was prime.
[Cm] Never taught present day practical medicines,
but I was [Gm] told what the ancient Hippocratic method is.
[Cm] I've got a headache, the pain is ceaseless, what should [Eb] I take?
Um, maybe try some leashes?
Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts,
or how to help my depressed friend with a mental state?
[Cm] Um, no.
But learn mental maths,
because you [Eb] won't have a calculator with you every day.
They say it's not the kids, the parents are the problem.
Then if you taught the kids to parent, that's the problem solved then.
[Cm] All this advice about using a condom,
but [Eb] not for when you actually have a kid when you [Cm] want one.
I'm only fluent in this language, for serious, the [Bb] rest of the world speaks too.
Do you think I'm an idiot?
To coast us all over the political system,
so like a [Eb] typical citizen now I don't know what I'm [Cm] voting on,
which policies exist or how to make them change.
May [Eb] we use Gepard and Père de Francais?
So at [Fm] 18 I was expected to elect a representative
for [Eb] a system I had never ever ever been [Cm] presented with.
But I won't take it!
[Eb] I'll tell everyone my childhood was wasted.
I'll share it everywhere how I was educated.
And [Eb] insist these pointless things don't stay in [Cm] school.
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[Cm] [Eb]
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Cm] I wasn't taught how to get a job, [Eb] but I can remember dissecting a frog.
[Cm] I wasn't taught how to pay tax, [Eb] but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics.
I was [Cm] never taught how to vote, they devoted that time to defining isotopes.
I [Cm] wasn't taught how to look after my health, but [Eb] mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Never spent a lesson on current events, [Bb] instead I studied the old American West.
[Cm] I was never taught what laws there are.
[Eb] I was never taught what laws there are.
Let me [Gm] repeat, I was not taught the laws for the country I live in,
but I know how Henry VIII killed his women.
[Cm] Divorce beheaded, died.
Divorce beheaded, survived.
[Eb] Glad that's in my head instead of financial [Cm] advice.
I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light,
[Eb] but I was never taught my human rights.
[Ab] Apparently there's 30.
Do you know them?
I don't.
Why [Eb] the hell can't we both recite them if [Cm] I wrote I know?
Here's metamorphic and sedimentary boxy, [Bb] I don't know squat about trading stocks
or [Ab] how money works at all.
Where does it come from?
[Eb] How does the thing that motivates the [Cm] world function?
Not taught to budget and disperse my [Eb] earnings.
I was too busy there rehearsing cursive.
[Cm] Didn't learn how much it costs to raise a kid and what an affidavit is,
but I [Eb] spent days on what the quadratic [Cm] equation is.
Negative b plus or minus the square root of [Bb] b squared minus 4ac over 2a.
That's [Cm] insane, that's absolutely insane.
They [Eb] made me learn that over basic first aid,
or how to recognize the most deadly mental disorders or diseases with preventable causes,
or how to buy [Cm] a house with a mortgage if I could afford it,
because [Eb] abstract maths was deemed more [Ab] important than advice
that would literally save thousands [Eb] of lives.
But it's cool, because [Cm] now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths
[Eb] caused by that choice was prime.
[Cm] Never taught present day practical medicines,
but I was [Gm] told what the ancient Hippocratic method is.
[Cm] I've got a headache, the pain is ceaseless, what should [Eb] I take?
Um, maybe try some leashes?
Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts,
or how to help my depressed friend with a mental state?
[Cm] Um, no.
But learn mental maths,
because you [Eb] won't have a calculator with you every day.
They say it's not the kids, the parents are the problem.
Then if you taught the kids to parent, that's the problem solved then.
[Cm] All this advice about using a condom,
but [Eb] not for when you actually have a kid when you [Cm] want one.
I'm only fluent in this language, for serious, the [Bb] rest of the world speaks too.
Do you think I'm an idiot?
To coast us all over the political system,
so like a [Eb] typical citizen now I don't know what I'm [Cm] voting on,
which policies exist or how to make them change.
May [Eb] we use Gepard and Père de Francais?
So at [Fm] 18 I was expected to elect a representative
for [Eb] a system I had never ever ever been [Cm] presented with.
But I won't take it!
[Eb] I'll tell everyone my childhood was wasted.
I'll share it everywhere how I was educated.
And [Eb] insist these pointless things don't stay in [Cm] school.
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