Beauty School Dropout - Broadway/Original Cast Version/1972

Jeez, what am I gonna do?
I quit high school so I could be a hairstylist
Now I can't just go and tell everybody
I went and dropped out of beauty school
Boy, I wish I had one of those guardian angel things
Like in that Debbie Reynolds movie
That'd be neat
Somebody always there to tell you what's the best thing to do

Your story's sad to tell
A teenage ne'er-do-well
Most mixed-up non-delinquent on the block
Your future's so unclear now
What's left of your career now
Can't even get a trade-in on your smock

Beauty school dropout
No graduation day for you
Beauty school dropout
Missed your midterms and flunked shampoo
Well, at least you could've taken time
To wash and clean your clothes up
After spending all the dough to have the doctor fix your nose up

Baby get moving
Why keep your feeble hopes alive?
What are you proving?
You've got the dream but not the drive
If you go for your diploma
You could join a steno pool
Turn in your teasing comb
And go back to high school

Beauty school dropout
Hangin' around the corner store
Beauty school dropout
It's about time you knew the score
Well, they couldn't teach you anything
You think you're such a looker
But no customer would go to you
Unless she was a hooker

Baby, don't sweat it
You're not cut out to hold a job
Better forget it
Who wants their hair done by a slob?
Now your bangs are curled, your lashes twirled
But still the world is cruel
Wipe off that angel face
And go back to high school