Key: Bb major
Intro 1
G
A
Bm
A
G
A
G
A
Bm
C#m
G
A
G
Verse 1
F#m
Bm
beat up Paul
A
G
A
The boys have gone to watch
G
A
Some of the girls are down
A
C#m
G
A
Justine's got cherry cola and
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A
Bm
C#m
G
A
scotch
G
A
Later on it's everyone around
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G
A
Her parents are away in New York
G
A
Sara, well, she just can't bear
Bm
A
The stupidity, the boredom, the grind
Bm
A
G
The sound of the life of the mind
Verse 2
C
D
And it's noisy up there
Bm
Em
E
D
It rocks me like a mother
C
D
Rosa Parks and DNA
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D
Joan of Arc and JFK
C
D
But it's noisy up there
(Noisy up there)
Bm
Em
D
G
It rocks me like a mother
Verse 3
A
G
A
Oh, oh, oh
A
Bm
her social circle
A
D
Won't introduce them to
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A
Lincoln or Frost
D
G
Doesn't want to let them get to know
A
Bm
Keats or Studs Terkel
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A
they have lost
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A
But Sara, well, she just can't bear
Bm
A
The stupidity, the boredom, the grind
C#m
G
She stays at school so
Bm
A
G
The sound of the life of the mind
Verse 4
C
D
And it's noisy up there
(Noisy up there)
Bm
Em
D
It rocks me like a mother
C
D
Co pernicus and Fortune's Wheel
C
D
Plato, Glenn Gould, and the New Deal
C
D
And it's noisy up there
(Noisy up there)
Bm
Esus4
D
A
It rocks me like a mother
Verse 5
A
C
Am
A
Sara already knows pretty soon
she'll be leaving
Well, she's hoovered up
C
G
whatever she can find
hear about
Interlude 1
A
C
D
Bm
Em
C
D
Bm
C
Verse 6
C
D
Yeah, it's noisy up there
(Noisy up there)
Bm
Em
C
It rocks me like a mother
D
Bm
Oh, oh, oh, oh
(Noisy up there)
Bm
Em
D
It rocks me like a mother
C
D
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Bm
C
Oh, oh, oh
Outro 1
C
C
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