Alphabet Boy chords by Melanie Martinez

• Capo on 5th

Standard Tuning

[Verse I]

    Am                C
You’re always aiming paper airplanes at me when you’re around
  Em                    Am
You build me up like building blocks just so you can bring me down
Am                   C
You can crush my candy cane but you’ll never catch me cry
    Am               C
If you dangle that diploma and I deck you, don’t be surprised


[Pre-Chorus]

     Am         C
I know my ABC’s, yet you keep teaching me
      Em        Am
I say, fuck your degree, alphabet boy
         Am              C
You think you’re smarter than me with all your bad poetry
       Em     Am
Fuck all your ABC’s, alphabet boy


[Chorus]

         Em
I’m not a little kid now
       C
Watch me get big now
           Em
Spell my name on the fridge now
          C
With all your alphabet toys
           Em
You won the spelling bee now
             C
But are you smarter than me now?
             Em
You’re the prince of the playground
      Am
Little alphabet boy


[Verse 2]

Am               C
Apples aren’t an always appropriate apologies
Em                  Am
Butterscotch and bubblegum drops are bittersweet to me
Am                 C
You call me a child while you keep counting all your coins
   Em
But you’re not my daddy and I’m not your dolly
   Am
And your dictionary’s destroyed


[Pre-Chorus]

     Am         C
I know my ABC’s, yet you keep teaching me
      Em        Am
I say, fuck your degree, alphabet boy
         Am              C
You think you’re smarter than me with all your bad poetry
       Em     Am
Fuck all your ABC’s, alphabet boy


[Chorus]

         Em
I’m not a little kid now
       C
Watch me get big now
           Em
Spell my name on the fridge now
          C
With all your alphabet toys
           Em
You won the spelling bee now
             C
But are you smarter than me now?
             Em
You’re the prince of the playground
      Am
Little alphabet boy