Where They Go Back To School But Get Depressed
a great song by Scott Miller
Lovingly transcribed by Matthew Amster-Burton

Tune down 1/2 step.

D9 = D with first string open--thanks, Tim W.!
Don't forget to arpeggiate those D9s!

Intro:  play around on C, F, G

    C                Am
And will this be our second chance?
    
    F      Am     D9
Our secret better lives?

  Bb              F        Dm     G           F
Adjusted freedom, somewhat less unsupervised

    C                    Am            F      Am         D9
And did these girls show interest as I walked across the lawn?

   Bb               F       Dm      Bb        F      G    C F
Or hint that in the broader sense I should be moving on

     G                  C        G
They live where I won't know the town

   C         Am       F         C    F
On streets I won't be strolling down

    G             C        G
And if I ask they will not be

    Dm  Am        G
You any more than you

    C                 Am
I'm back in class and having to

F             Am          D9
Explain where things went wrong

    Bb                F        Dm     G            F
I'm here in someone's school assembly stringalong

  C              Am
I move out of an usher's way

    F      Am  D9
But don't apologize

   Bb                  F      Dm
My eyes don't find you as the lights dim

Bb        F      G      C F
Someone's mother cries

    G                C        G
And nine days out of ten I'll say

   C        Am      F    C    F  
It couldn't be more gone away

    G              C      G
And mostly I don't notice that

        Dm      Am
There's someone there

    Dm     Am         G    
But when I look, it's you

F    G    F   G        C  F  G  etc.
In a skirt at school