The Ballad Of Sara Berry chords by Ryan Scott Oliver

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
           E   F#  G#m
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
             E       F#       G#m
Down on your knees before the Queen
           E   F#  G#m
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
             E       F#       G#m
Down on your knees before the Queen


Verse 1:
G#m                              G#m7
Sara Berry was a popular bitch. (Mm-hmm.)
G#m                                                  B
Hot bod, hot boy, cheer captain, plus she was rich. (Oh, yeah.)
C#m
That girl had everything till hiccup and hitch:
      D#
Julie Jenkins lost a leg in a wreck. (Am-pu-ta-ted!)

Verse 2:
G#m                                    G#m7
The nominations for Prom royalty came (Uh-huh.)
G#m                                              B
Our Sara's senior year, and Queen was her claim (Uh, duh.)
C#m
Till gossip stirred the student body would name
      D#
Julie Jenkins, Queen of the Prom. (Pi-ty-vote!)
E                         F#
"Sara," her father said, "Life is a Prom
  G#m                       B
I know you won't disappoint me and Mom?"


Chorus:
E             F#            G#m           B
You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown
               E              F#       G#m   B
You thirst for blood from the roses in hand
     E              F#                G#m      B
Whoa, you spoil for sash and scepter, music to dance
        E                  F#          G#m
As they crown you Queen of High School Land


Break:
 N.C.
(Check Sara, choose Sara, vote for Sara Berry.)
 G#m
(Check Sara, choose Sara, vote for Sara Berry.)


Verse 3:
G#m                                     G#m7
So obsessed, our Sara near lost her mind
G#m                               B
To life un-Prom-related, Sara was blind;
C#m
She shoved her squad, her clique, her boyfriend behind
      D#
Still Julie had a hold on the lead. (Poor, poor, Julie...)


Verse 4:
G#m                                    G#m7
Soon Sara's sanity was hung by a thread
G#m                                  B
Her B.F.F.'s proclaimed her socially dead
C#m
'Til then, at last, her boyfriend texted and said:
            D#
"I'm taking Julie to the senior Prom." (Love, love, Julie...)
 E                        F#
"Sara," her father said, "Why be so calm?
        G#m
There's just no future for a Princess at Prom"


Chorus:
E             F#            G#m           B
You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown
               E              F#       G#m   B
You thirst for blood from the roses in hand
     E              F#                G#m      B
Whoa, you spoil for sash and scepter, music to dance
        E                  F#          G#m
As they crown you Queen of High School Land


Break:
           E   F#  G#m
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
             E       F#       G#m
Down on your knees before the Queen
           E   F#  G#m
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
             E       F#       G#m
Down on your knees before the Queen


Bridge:
G#m                         B
Some girls are rational but Sara was not
G#m                            B
She stared in mirrors thinking one single thought:
E                                  D#
There's seven reasons this crown's not good as got  (Julie, Anne, Eunice, Raquel, Marianna, Patricia, Quiara)
C#m                              F#            A#
And so the night of Prom, mercy! Thus went her plot:   (Marianna, Patricia, Quiara)
N.C.                                        D#
"P" is for Patricia drinking poisoned punch
 N.C.                                       D#
"R" is for Raquel dashed on a rock-- crunch!
 E                              F#
"O" is what Anne said when Sara bludgeoned her brains
     G#
And "M" is Marianna's marinated remains

But! But!
 D#
"Q" is for Quiara, quiet, drowned in the pool

And "U" is for Eunice's pieces spread round the school
     F#                           G#
But "E's" are for the easy way in five minutes tops
             A#
A one-legg'd girl can bring an "N" for end by calling the cops. (What a bitch.)


Chorus:
E            F#           G#m          B
You got your silver Sara, you got your crown
              E             F#       G#m    B
You got their blood on your roses in hand
     E               F#                G#m     B
Whoa, you donned the sash and scepter, doing a dance
       E                    F#          G#m              E   F#  G#m
As you crowned you Queen of High School Land! Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
              E    F#         G#m    B
Down on your knees before the Queen
           E   F#  G#m    B
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
              E          F#   G#m
Down on your knees before
E                 F#                G#m            B
They wrapped your wrists in silver, they took your crown
         E                 F#          G#m    B
As they washed your bloody fingers and hands
E      F#                  G#m          B
Into a tight straitjacket, small padded cell
             E               F#          G#m    B
Screaming, "I'm the Queen of High School Land!"
           E   F#  G#m  B
Woah-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh!
              E    F#         G#m    B
Down on your knees before the Queen


Outro:
G#m
(Woah...)
G#m
Check Sara, choose Sara, vote for Sara Berry.
G#m
(The ballad of Sara Berry.)