Bard chords by Tripod

F#m, C#, Bb
F#m, C#, Bb

C#             Ab
Meet you by the art room door
                 C#             Ab
In a circle on the hallway floor
                 C#             Ab
Teacher held you back again
                 C#             Ab
Drawing ogres in your textbook margin
Eb                                 C#
Keeping your eyes down and dodging oranges
     Bb
On the bus trip home
                Ab
Every day you're battle-scarred
               F#
You'll grow up to be a bard
               C#           Abm
You'll grow up to be a bard

C#, Abm
C#, Abm
C#, Abm

C#          Abm
Hurt yourself at sports again
                  C#          Abm
You're not made for mud and wind
                  C#          Abm
Limping home through quiet streets
                  C#          Abm
Sprinkler spits a snare drum beat
Eb                                  C#
Kids down on the vacant block throw rocks at you
           Bb
For talking to yourself again
                   Ab
Days like this are way too hard
               F#
You'll grow up to be a bard
               C#           Abm
You'll grow up to be a bard

C#, Abm

B                            C#
You'll tell your own daughter stories
                   Bb
She'll get some dice of her own one day
            F#m                  C#
They can trademark the name all they like
                Bb
It's all ripped off Tolkien anyway
            F#m                  C#
'Cause dragons and dungeons go back
                Bb
They go back a long, long way
                Ab
And they won't go away
                F#
They won't go away

                  C#          Abm
Meet you by the art room door
                  C#          Abm
In a circle on the hallway floor
                  C#          Abm
Made up a new map last night
                  C#          Abm
It's got a dragon and a wizard fight
Eb                            C#
Once the ranger and the thief get here
          Bb
We can lock the door
                Ab
Shut the noise out from the yard
                F#
Then we can let down our guard

                C#
You'll grow up to be a bard

You'll grow up to...
                C#
You'll grow up to be a bard
                Abm
You'll grow up to...

E ,A ,D ,G ,b ,e
F#m (x ,9 ,11,11,10,x)
C#  (9 ,11,11,10,x ,x)
Bb  (6 ,8 ,8 ,7 ,x ,x)
Ab  (4 ,6 ,6 ,5 ,x ,x)
Eb  (11,13,13,12,x ,x)
F#  (2 ,4 ,4 ,3 ,x ,x)
Abm (x ,11,13,13,12,x)
B   (7 ,9 ,9 ,8 ,x ,x)