Chords for Girls' School

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A happy [Bb] start, a sad, [F] sad ending _ For [Eb] _ _ [Bb] every minute of [F] the story
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[Eb] _ as their [Bb] wheels are broken, [F] bending _ _ _ [Eb] See the [Bb] good girls _ _ _ hurry
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[Eb] At the primary _ academy We're a secondary _ seminary
[C] Teaching finishing rints And dancing in the rain
Seeing tips in scorn _ _ _
[Eb] Always concerned with plummeting virginity rates
We lecture [C] young girls on how babies are born _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ Children _ make a chain _ [Cm] Oh, _ [C] children make a chain _
[Eb] The staff here is severe, yet so _ altruistic [C] It hurts us more than it hurts them _ _ _
[Eb] The new girls are tender, the old ones _ sadistic [C] The late Janet just was a gem _ _ _
[Eb] _ Don't [Bb] believe what [A] the boys from [F] next door heard [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Requirements do [F]
include math _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ We draw [Bb] straws and [F] put our best foot forward [Eb] _ Down [Bb] the straight and narrow _ path
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_ [Gm] Listen to our pretty song We [C] are happy as the day is long
Forget [F] the things you thought you knew _ [Bb] _ We'll make a very good [D] girl of you
_ [Gm] Listen to our pretty song We [Cm] are happy as the day is long
[F] Forget the things you thought you knew We'll [Bb] make a very good [D] girl of you
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_ _ A pupil transferred here from Lavender Lake To [Bb] [C] Roto in _ _ self-denial _
_ _ [Eb] Some underage urchins were forced to matriculate [C] Their record scams here _ undefiled _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Neat retreat _ _ [F] [A] slips through their _ fingers [Eb] Which [Bb] little girl [C] made the [F] plan? _
_ _ _ [Eb] Shirley [Bb] _
involved with the [F] Vesper's bell [Dm] ringers Down [Eb] a ladder [Bb] through the gate _ delirious _
_ [D] Listen [Gm] _ to our pretty song We [C] are happy as the day is long
[F] Forget the things you thought you knew We'll [Bb] make a very good [D] girl of you
[Gm] Listen to our pretty song We [Cm] are happy as the day is long
_ [F] Forget the things you thought you knew We'll [Bb] make a very _ _ [D] _ [Gm] good girl of you
And the girls ran out of the school yard and up the hill [Cm] behind
I'm scared, said the little loose one Don't [F] worry, said the leader
They can catch us, or they could kill [Bb] us But they could never crush our spirit _
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