The Kinks – Schooldays (Guitar)

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by The Kinks (Davies) from Schoolboys in Disgrace Chords: [email protected] [Intro] D B7 [Verse 1]
Em             C               Am                    D    B7
   If ever you think about the happiest days of your life

Em                C
   Cast back your mind for a while

      Am                   D          B7
And remember the time when you were a child.

Em                D                    C     A A7
   Don't think of things that make you sad

       G              D                   C
Just remember all the good times that you had.

         G                 B7
Do you remember only happy days,

                Em                   C
Full of flaming Junes and summer holidays?

            G                     D
Or do you remember those stormy Novembers

        C                          G       D
When we walked in the wind and the rain?
[Chorus]
      G                    B7
Schooldays were such happy days,

         Em           C
Now they seem so far away,

    G                     D          D B7
I remember and I'll always treasure.

Em           C          Am                    D    B7
   School days were the happiest days of your life

Em                C            Am
   But we never appreciate the good times we have

  D            B7
Until it's too late.
[Verse 2]
  Em             D              C     A A7
I miss all the acquaintances we made

        G                  D           C
And I'd go back if I could only find a way,

      G                      B7
Schooldays were the happiest days

               Em                         C
Though at the time they filled me with dismay.

          G                          D       D B7
We only remember what we choose to remember.

Em              C            A7
   When I was a schoolboy I loathed

                D      B7
regulations and rules,

Em            C                A7
   I hated my textbooks and my school uniform

        D          B7
'Cos it made me conform,

    Em            D           C     A7
And teachers were always disobeyed,

        G                  D           C
But I'd go back if I could only find a way.
[Chorus]
       G                      B7
School days were the happiest days,

         Em            C
Now they seem so far away.

    G                     D         D B7
I remember and I'll always treasure,

Em          C           Am                    D    B7
   School days were the happiest days of your life

Em                C            Am
   But we never appreciate the good times we have

  D            B7
Until it's too late.
[Outro]
Em     D              C      A A7
Now I wish I hadn't strayed

        G                  D           C
And I'd go back if I could only find a way.

            G
Those schooldays.