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He was a boy.
She was a girl.
Can I make it an y more ob vi ous?
He was a punk.
She did bal let.
What (C5)more can I say?
He want ed her.
She’d nev er tell.
Se cret ly she want ed him as well.
But all of her friends
stuck up their nose and they had a prob lem with his bag gy clothes.
He was a skat (C5)er boy.
She said, see you lat (Bb5)er boy.
He was n’t good e nough for (F5)her.
She had a pret (C5)ty face but her head was up (Bb5)in space.
She need ed to (A5)come back down to (Bb5)Earth.
Five years from now
she sits at home
feed ing the ba by, she’s all a lone.
She turns on T V.
Guess who she sees.
Skat er boy rock in’ up M T V.
She calls up her friends, they al read y know and they’ve all got tick ets to see his show.
She tags a long and stands in the crowd.
Looks up at the man that (C5)she turned down.
He was a skat (C5)er boy.
She said, see you lat (Bb5)er boy.
He was n’t good e nough for (F5)her.
Now he’s a su (C5)per star, slam ming on his (Bb5)gui tar.
Does your pret ty (A5)face see what he’s (F5)worth?
He was a skat (C5)er boy.
She said, see you lat (Bb5)er boy.
He was n’t good e nough for (F5)her.
Now he’s a su (C5)per star, slam ming on his (Bb5)gui tar.
Does your pret ty see what he’s (F5)worth?
He was a skat (A5)face see what he’s (Bb5)worth?
Sor ry girl but you missed (F)out.
Well, tough luck, that boy’s mine (C)now.
We are more than just good (Bb)friends.
This is how the stor y (Dm)ends.
Too bad that you could n’t (F)see, see the man that boy could (C)be.
There is more than meets the (Bb)eye.
I see the soul that is in (D5)side.
He’s just a boy and I’m just a girl.
Can I make it an y more ob vi ous?
We are in love.
Have n’t you heard
how we rock each oth er’s world?
I’m with the skat (A5)face see what he’s (F5)worth?
He was a skat (C5)er boy.
I said see you lat (Bb5)er boy.
I’ll be back stage af ter the (F5)show.
I’ll be at our stu (C5)di o sing ing the song (Bb5)we wrote a bout a girl you used to (Bb5)know.
This page shows “Sk8er Boi” by Avril Lavigne in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of D at 120 BPM, a comfortable easy-level arrangement perfect for first-time learners.