intro- drums then G

           GI (320003@1)was a debater
                        DWas (xx0232@1)not a stoner nor an inline skater
                       C (x32010@1)Was not a player nor a player hater
E (022100@1)                         CI (x32010@1)was just a bookworm on a respirator
D (xx0232@1)                 GWho's (320003@1)to say that's wrong
             GI (320003@1)was in the chess club
                                 DDidn't (xx0232@1)have a swimming pool much less a true love
                             CDidn't (x32010@1)have a dalliance much less a hot tub
E (022100@1)                            CI (x32010@1)was just a brain whose brain never let up
D (xx0232@1)                 GWho's (320003@1)to say that's wrong

    CThe (x32010@1)twelve years after five
                C (x32010@1)             GAre (320003@1)years we're lucky to survive
                       EHang (022100@1)in there friends forever
              DIn (xx0232@1)memory far away
                      CHang (x32010@1)in there friends forever
   E (022100@1)  D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)In memory far away

                 GWent (320003@1)out for the football team
                                      DFound (xx0232@1)out the hard way that you can't live your Dad's dream
                           CHad (x32010@1)pretty thin skin to be in the machine
E (022100@1)                           CThen (x32010@1)I found a guitar and the rest's a fanzine
D (xx0232@1)                 GWho's (320003@1)to say that's wrong

     CThe (x32010@1)moral of the song
            CIs (x32010@1)that the high school kids are wrong
              CYou (x32010@1)know they have been all along
         C (x32010@1)                    GCome (320003@1)graduation you'll be gone
                      EHang (022100@1)in there friends forever
              DIn (xx0232@1)memory far away
                      CHang (x32010@1)in there friends forever
   E (022100@1)  D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)In memory far away

solo over verse chords

     CThe (x32010@1)moral of the song
            CIs (x32010@1)that the high school kids are wrong
              CYou (x32010@1)know they have been all along
        C (x32010@1)                GCome (320003@1)graduation you'll be gone
                      EHang (022100@1)in there friends forever
              DIn (xx0232@1)memory far away
                      CHang (x32010@1)in there friends forever
   E (022100@1)  D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)In memory far away

   E (022100@1)  D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)In memory far away

E (022100@1) Dend (xx0232@1)on G (320003@1)ps. if youre playing this electric...for the verse play the E as a bar chord on the 7th
fret of the A string and for the chorus play the E as an open E cause thats how it is on 
the recording

if you wanna play it acoustic using all open chords it sounds cool too

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