Original Artist - Jocks And Geeks guitar chord
“Jocks and Geeks”
words & music by H.L. Slaughter
(You can download this or any of the songs from my CD "I'm The One" at iTunes.com.)
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She was kind of shy with a ponytail.
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No matter how she tried it never failed
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There were always two or three strands hanging in her face.
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He was the kind of guy from a fairytale.
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Everything he tried, he never failed
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And his hair was perfect; not a strand out of place.
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The smartest kid in school, but they called her “geek”.
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He was “Mr. Cool” cruisin' down the street
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She watched him drive by while she waited for the bus.
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She had to be a fool to think they could ever meet.
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An unspoken rule between jocks and geeks:
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“We won’t bother you if you don’t bother us.”
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He saw her waiting through his tinted glass,
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Wondered who she was dating and if he should ask
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If she would like to ride with him to school.
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But he was running late for his homeroom class,
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And his friends would hate him and then they’d laugh
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If he showed up with a girl who just wasn’t cool.
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So, when prom night came he settled for a girl
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With the perfect name and her hair in curls
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And his friends all liked her, but he was bored to tears
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‘Cause they all look the same in his perfect world.
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So, he goes insane looking for a girl
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Who doesn’t really care what he drives or wears.
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And the shy bookworm with the ponytail
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Sits alone with her ginger ale
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Hoping against all hope he’ll ask her to dance.
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But she’ll go back home to her fairytales
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To her silent phone and her empty mail
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'Cause she knows jocks and geeks don’t stand a chance.
I like to fingerpick the last verse and end with a harmonic on the open G string.
