Runaway chords by Spirogyra

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

A G E x2
A G

A Section:
F               Esus4 E
Run, run, run, runaway
F         Esus4 E
Today's a holiday
  Am               E
Today we needn't worry
  Am                   E
About the clothes we wear
C                     G
No more ‘geog' on the old school bog
     F               G   A
No cracks about our hair
B                   C      G   F
Janitor Giles, you cannot see me
B                     C       G   F   Esus4 E Esus4 E
Janitor Giles, it's great to be free

F                  Esus4 E
Hide, hide, hide, hide away
F            Esus4     E
Today it's truant we play
Am               E
Dodgy school inspectors
     Am                 E
Will not suspect we're here
C                     G
No more French on the old school bench
     F                G  A
No clouts behind our ears
B                   C      G   F
Janitor Giles, you cannot see me
B                     C       G   F   Esus4 E
Janitor Giles, it's great to be free

    Esus4             E
But life is what you make it
    Esus4              E
And you missed school today
Esus4           E
Good old Smithy and his pals
Esus4            C   A C A C
What keeps them away


B Section:
A
We're going round
   E7sus4
We dare not make a sound
       A
To the house of my best friend
     E7sus4
To a shed that he has found
   F#m
And oh you'll have to gasp
            Bm               Dm7            A
As he takes out and shows to you the photograph
      Bm               Dm7            A
Takes out and shows to you the photograph

A
What the picture shows
  E7sus4
Is awfully clear to me
    A
My friends older than I
          E7sus4
Fest their eyes so greedily
    F#m
But I shall run away
          Bm                  Dm7          A
And go upstairs and play with my model railway
      Bm                  Dm7           A
Go upstairs and play with my model railway

Dm7
What goes on at night
              C#m7
When there is no-one else around
Bm7                              Amaj7
Is the strangest part of growing up that I've yet found
       Dm7
Though what the doe and rabbit
      C#m7
Did today at school was real
   Bm7                          Amaj7
It failed to answer questions about the way I feel
Amaj7         F#m
Maybe I'm a queer?
Amaj7         F#m
Maybe I'm a queer?

    A
It could be by tomorrow
    E7sus4
The answers will be found
          A
In these pages of a magazine
    E7sus4
The Vicars left around
    F#m
And late into the night
         Bm            Dm7        A
We will wonder if the dialog was right
         Bm            Dm7        A
We will wonder if the dialog was right

Dm7                        C#m7
Wonder if my parents worry about this kind of thing
   Bm7                  Amaj7
Or am I artificial, has my dad lost his sting?
  Dm7
A lovely girl lives up the road
      C#m7
She's much older than I
     Bm7
I'd really like to know her
          Amaj7
Give the whole theory a try
   Amaj7         F#m
To see if it is real
   Amaj7            F#m Dmaj7 F#m Dmaj7
To see just how it feels


C Section:
F#m                   Dmaj7
Hush now the boy is sleeping
     A                    E
And we don't want him to wake him until the morning
      D                 F#m
He's got a hard day to take
         Dmaj7
At the school that he hates
     A                   E
And so let's leave him dreaming
   D               B           F#m        Dmaj7
Until the morning sun shines through his window
F#m               Dmaj7
Let's leave him dreaming
           A
Until the morning
                  D
Let's leave him dreaming
                  A
Let's leave him dreaming
                  D  A
Let's leave him dreaming