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When I'm lyin' in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up
G                                      D               G
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right, I don't wanna grow up
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How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things
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Makes me wish that I could be a dog

[Verse 2]
G                                  D               G
When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up
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I don't ever want to be that way I don't wanna grow up
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Seems like folks turn into things that they'd never want
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The only thing to live for is today

[Verse 3]
G                                  D               G
(I'm) Gonna put a hole in my tv set I don't wanna grow up
G                                       D               G
Gonna open up the medicine chest and I don't wanna grow up
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I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out
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I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout
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I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't wanna have the biggest amount
C       D         G
I don't wanna grow up

[Verse 4]
G                                 D               G
Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up
G                                           D               G
They all go out and drinkin' all night and I don't wanna grow up
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I'd rather stay here in my room nothin' out there but sad and gloom
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I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on Grant Street

G                              D               G
When I see the 5 o'clock news I don't wanna grow up
G                                           D               G
They Comb their hair and shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up
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Rather stick around the old hometown I don't wanna put no money down
Em                   Bm              C               D
I don't wanna get me a big old loan work them fingers to the bone
Em                   Bm              C               D
I don't wanna learn to float a broom fall in love and get married then boom
Em                  Bm          C       C       G          D
How the hell did it get here so soon  - I don't wanna grow up