Beauty School Dropout

Album: Grease soundtrack (1978)
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  • Your story sad to tell
    A teenage ne'er do well
    Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block

    Your future's so unclear now
    What's left of your career now?
    Can't even get a trade in on your smock

    La, la la la, la la la, la la la
    La la la la la la
    La la la la la la
    La la la la la la la

    Beauty school dropout
    No graduation day for you
    Beauty school dropout
    Missed your mid-terms and flunked shampoo
    Well, at least you could have taken time
    To wash and clean your clothes up
    After spending all that dough
    To have the doctor fix your nose up

    Baby, get movin'(better get movin')
    Why keep your feeble hopes alive?
    What are you provin'? (What are you provin')
    You've got the dream but not the drive

    If you go for your diploma, you could join a steno pool
    Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school (la la la la la)
    La la la la
    La la la la la la

    Beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
    Hanging around the corner store
    Beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
    It's about time you knew the score

    Well, they couldn't teach you anything
    You think you're such a looker
    But no customer would go to you
    Unless she was a hooker

    Baby don't sweat it (don't sweat it)
    You're not cut out to hold a job
    Better forget it (forget it)
    Who wants their hair done by a slob?

    Now your bangs are curled
    Your lashes twirled
    But still the world is cruel
    Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school

    Baby, don't blow it
    Don't put my good advice to shame
    Baby, you know it
    Even dear Abby'd say the same

    Now I've called the shot
    Get off the pot
    I really gotta fly
    Gotta be going to that malt shop in the sky

    Beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
    Go back to high school
    Beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
    Go back to high school
    Beauty school dropout (beauty school dropout)
    Go back to high school Writer/s: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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