College Chords

KeyF Capo3st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays418

College by Matt The Electrician is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords F, C, G, Bb, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
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Intro: F C G C (x2) 


verse 1 
         F                          C 
I owe thirty-five dollars to the library 
       G               C 
At Humboldt State University 
         F                  C 
But I dropped out fifteen years ago 
        G                     Bb        C 
And I never paid it and I'm still not gonna 

    F             C 
I never got my report card 
         G                        C 
But I didn't go to class and I didn't work hard 
        F                   C              
So I didn't wanna know how bad I did 
        G                     Bb     C 
But I know I never made the dean's list 


 
       Am          Em      
And college is a waste of time 
         F                        C 
If you wanna be a baker or a candlestick maker 
 Am                 Em 
You still have to wait in line 
         F                          G 
At the bank drive through and the train tracks too 
          F                 C  
Behind people like me with no degree 
           G                     C 
'Cause I know the conductor and he knows me 
            F                            C 
You might have a nicer car, but I've traveled pretty far 
     G                Bb    C 
And all I have is an old guitar 


Bridge F C G C (x2) 


verse 2 
  F                C 
Forty bucks for a bag of weed 
          G               C 
In the summer nineteen ninety three 
  F               C 
Forty dollars is all I have 
         G               Bb            C 
And it isn't mine, it belongs to my parents 

      F                         C 
Oh, five hundred points for a roll of cookie dough 
           G                 C 
In the cafeteria they got sloppy joes 
           F               C 
And the sloppy joes cost three points 
         G                     Bb     C 
I won't eat in the spring but hey, cookie dough 


 
       Am          Em      
And college is a waste of time 
         F                    C 
If you wanna be a diver or a big rig driver 
 Am                Em 
You still have to go to the store 
      F                     G 
And share the road with a wide load 
         F            C  
Who's taking up all three lanes 
          G                          C 
And you can't get around him it's a big pain 
           F                     C 
And the driver hasn't slept in three whole days 
         G                            C   
But he knows one thing and that's freeways 
               F                  C 
He's got a Gatorade bottle where he goes pee 
       G                           Bb      C 
And you're behind him with your college degree 


verse 3/Outro 
         F                          C  
I owe thirty-five dollars to the library 
       G               C 
At Humboldt State University 
         F                  C 
But I dropped out fifteen years ago 
       G                     Bb        C 
So I never paid it and I'm still not gonna.. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante