School Boy chords by Allen Ginsberg
Verse 1
G
D
G
C#
D
I'd love to rise on a
summer morn'
When the birds sing on
D
every tree
G
C#
D
The distant huntsman whines his horn
And the skylark sings with me
C#
D
Oh, what sweet company
C#
But to go to school in the summer morn
G
Em
G
Oh, it drives all joy away
D
Under a cruel eye outworn
C#
G
The little ones spend the day
D
G
D
In sighing and dismay
C#
G
Ah, then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour,
D
Nor in my books can I take delight,
G
Em
G
C#
D
Nor sit in learning's bower,
C#
D
How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
G
How can a child when fear's annoying
D
But droop his tender wing
G
C#
D
an d for get his youthful spring?
O father and mother, it buds a nip
G
And blossoms blown away
D
And if the tender plants
are stripped of their joy
C#
In the springing day
D
G
D
By sorrow and cares dismayed.
G
F#
G
D
How shall the summer arise in joy,
G
D
Or the summer fruits appear?
G
D
For how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Bm
G
A
Or bless the mellowing year
D
Bm
G
When the blasts of winter appear?
F#
G
How shall the summer arise in joy
Or the summer fruits appear?
A
D
G
Or how shall we gather
D
what griefs destroy,
G
Bm
G
A
Or bless the mellowing air
D
G
When the blasts of winter appear? now.
Ooh.
D
Ooh.
G
Ooh.
D
G
G
D
G
In the of
G
the Father, Holy Amen.
School Boy
Allen Ginsberg
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