School Mam Chords by The Stranglers

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_ _ _ _ _ I'm finding for the classroom [F#] and the people's are here.
[A] Timmy's got a headache [Em] but the others don't care.
[E] Sarah's got to stay [F#] behind and help with the drill.
_ [A] Teacher's got his eye on her, [Em] looking for the kill.
_ Nobody can see or hear [F#] the things that they do.
_ [A] But of course [Em] there must be something they do.
[E] Only teacher knows about [F#] the subjects that's bad school.
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Education's second error, [Em] being a school man.
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [D] Teacher's doing fine as [A] far as [A] I can [B] see.
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_ _ [Em] Being a school man, long [E] holidays in the summer.
_ [Em] Being a school man, free [E] Nokia coffee breaks.
[Em] Being a school man, no more paid monthly salary checks.
Being a school man, noises heard the principal [F#] _ investigates.
[A] She turns on all the cameras [Em] and it's too late.
_ [E] Catches both their heads down [F#] in a passion war.
_ [A] Hasn't seen it happen [Em] since the day she was born.
[E] Reaches down for glasses [F#] that she's kept me found.
_ [A] By the turn she finds them [Em] right there down on the ground.
Tossing and turning, [F#] make her feverish hands.
[A] Life don't beat so fluent [Em] when you're being a school man.
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_ _ [B] Groovy!
_ _ [D] Teacher's doing fine as [A] far as [G] I [A] can [B] see.
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_ _ [Em] Being a school man, controlling [E] primary security after hours.
[Em] Being a school man, leaving [E] out detentions by the dozen.
[Em] Being a school man, giving [E] up 50 lives.
_ [Em] Hey, schoolmong!
Sucking on her fingernails, [F#] she can't believe what she's seen.
[A] Chasing sun and ghosts, [E] what appears on [Em] the screen.
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Luxembourg, with trembling [F#] hands, her heart's beating very [A] fast.
She pretends she's done it [Em] on the floor in the class.
[E] Gives herself to teacher, [G] although he doesn't know.
[A] Wipes herself into a [Em] frenzied state in the chores.
[E] Sarah is almost at the [F#] top, but tries she can.
[A] She can't reach her head to [Em] scold her, down with the schoolmong.
[E] Just let her go and help her [C] try if you can.
_ Use your [Em] 20th century imagination, _ if you dare! _
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_ _ [B] Now _ _ [D] she's in the top [A] and [G] teacher sets [A] her [B] free.
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_ [Em] Being a schoolmong, _ disgusting behaviour.
Being a schoolmong, oh, the parquet flooring.
Being a schoolmong, let the front gates open wide.
Being a schoolmong, now [E] the principal collapses [F#] down the floor.
[A] With contempt on her wrinkled [Em] old face ever more.
She went out the very best way [F#] that an old woman can.
[A] She was where the action was, [Em] down there with the schoolmong.
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_ [B] Teacher _ _ _ [D] never will [A] discover [G] who [A] could [B] see.
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_ _ [Em] Being a schoolmong, one and one [E] make two if you're very lucky.
_ [Em] Being a schoolmong, two [E] twos make four, if I remember correctly.
[Em] _ Being [E] a schoolmong, four fours make sixteen, and [Em] sixteen's over eight.
[E] Sixteen to sixteen make thirty-two, that's [Em] approaching middle age.
Thirty-two and thirty-two make sixty-four, that's how [C#] I'm paying.
_ [E] Sixty-four and sixty-four make a hundred and twenty [Em]-eight.
_ A hundred and twenty if you divide it by three, let me pause for reflection for a second.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ But teacher, _ _ three does go in, nine hundred and twenty-eight exactly.
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_ _ _ Forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine.
Forty-nine for one, forty-nine for two.
Twenty-nine for four, twenty-nine for _ five.
Twenty-nine for six, twenty-nine for [E] seven.
Twenty-nine for _ nine, twenty-nine for nine, twenty-nine for nine, _ [Em]
twenty-nine for nine.
4-9-4 [G]-9 4-9-4-9
4-9-4-9 4-9-4-9
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