Verse:
| G | | |
| D | 5 4 | 5 4 5 2 0 |
| A | 2 3 5 3 2 | 2 3 |
| E | 5 | 3 |
1: Never been near a university...
2: I can't have been there when brains were handed round...
3: If depth of feeling is a currency...
| G | | | 5 4 2 |
| D | | | 5 |
| A | | | |
| E | 3 3 3 3 3 | 5 5 5 5 5 | |
1: And some of your friends think that's stupid of me...
2: And some of your friends think it's really unsound...
3: Some of your friends are too brainy too see...
Chorus:
| G | 2 | |
| D | 2 4 5 | 2 0 |
| A | 3 3 5 | 2 3 |
| E | | 3 3 5 | G | 2 | |
| D | 2 4 5 | |
| A | 3 3 5 | 2 3 5 |
| E | | 3 3 5 |
1: Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun...
2: Well I don't know how to write a big hit song...
3: And I can't unravel riddles problems and puns...
4: Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton...
| G | | |
| D | | |
| A | 2 5 | 2 5 |
| E | 3 3 3 3 | 4 4 4 4 | G | | |
| D | 2 2 | 0 0 |
| A | 2 2 3 3 | 3 3 2 2 0 0 |
| E | 5 5 | |
1,2,3,4: And I may be the mayor the simpleton...
| G | | | |
| D | | | |
| A | | | 3 3 3 5 5 5 |
| E | 0 0 0 2 2 2 | 3 3 3 5 5 5 | |
| G | | 2 2 2 | 7 5 4 |
| D | 2 2 2 4 4 4 | 5 5 5 | 7 |
| A | | | |
| E | | | |
1,3: When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done...
Bridge:
| G | | | |
| D | | | |
| A | | | 2 2 2 |
| E | 0 0 0 2 2 2 | 3 3 3 5 5 5 | | G | 4 | | 7 5 4 |
| D | 7 5 4 | | 7 5 4 |
| A | 7 7 | | 7 5 |
| E | | 3 3 | |
| G | | | |
| D | | | 2 2 |
| A | 2 2 | | 0 0 2 2 3 3 |
| E | | 0 0 0 | |
| G | | |
| D | 0 0 0 | |
| A | 3 3 3 | 2 2 2 0 0 0 |
| E | | |
2: I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much...
Coda:
| G | | | |
| D | 2 5 2 5 | | |
| A | 3 3 | 5 3 2 | 0 2 3 2 0 |
| E | | 5 | 3 |
Repeat to end:
| G | | | |
| D | | 2 5 2 5 | 7 5 4 |
| A | | 3 3 | |
| E | 3 | | |
2/4
| G | | | | |
| D | | | | |
| A | 7 5 3 | 3 5 | 3 | |
| E | | 5 | 5 3 | 2 |