“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.)


        C               CM7C
She was kind of shy with a ponytail.
         FM7             Esus4FM7
No matter how she tried it never failed
           C                   CM7             C      Em
There were always two or three strands hanging in her face.
           C                  CM7  C
He was the kind of guy from a fairytale.
     FM7                Esus4 FM7
Everything he tried, he never failed
        C                       CM7    C      G
And his hair was perfect; not a strand out of place.

             C                       CM7         C
The smartest kid in school, but they called her “geek”.
        FM7                Esus4    FM7
He was “Mr. Cool” cruisin' down the street
    C                              CM7    C       Em
She watched him drive by while she waited for the bus.
           C                             CM7  C
She had to be a fool to think they could ever meet.
     FM7                 Esus4     FM7
An unspoken rule between jocks and geeks:
 C               CM7              C      G
“We won’t bother you if you don’t bother us.”

   C                           CM7    C
He saw her waiting through his tinted glass,
         FM7                    Esus4        FM7
Wondered who she was dating and if he should ask
   C                 CM7       C      Em
If she would like to ride with him to school.
           C                    CM7      C
But he was running late for his homeroom class,
        FM7                        Esus4       FM7
And his friends would hate him and then they’d laugh
   C                   CM7           C      G
If he showed up with a girl who just wasn’t cool.

         C                  CM7           C
So, when prom night came he settled for a girl
         FM7                  Esus4   FM7
With the perfect name and her hair in curls
        C                          CM7    C        Em
And his friends all liked her, but he was bored to tears
                C                    CM7     C
‘Cause they all look the same in his perfect world.
       FM7                 Esus4 FM7
So, he goes insane looking for a girl
    C              CM7          C         G
Who doesn’t really care what he drives or wears.

        C                     CM7 C
And the shy bookworm with the ponytail
FM7                 Esus4  FM7
Sits alone with her ginger ale
C                  CM7            C      Em
Hoping against all hope he’ll ask her to dance.
           C                   CM7  C
But she’ll go back home to her fairytales
       FM7                  Esus4 FM7
To her silent phone and her empty mail
       C                   CM7         C       G
'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.