[BLAINE]
Your story 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

[NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]
La la la la la la la la

[BLAINE & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]
Beauty school dropout
No graduation day for you
Beauty school dropout
Missed your midterms and flunked shampoo
Well at least you could have taken time, to wash and clean your clothes up
After spending all that dough to have the doctor fix your nose up

Baby, get moving
(Baby, get moving)
Why keep your feeble hopes alive?
What are you proving?
(What are you proving?)
You've got the dream but not the drive
[BLAINE with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS harmonizing]
If you go for your diploma, you could join a steno pool
Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school!

[NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS]
La la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la

[BLAINE & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]
Beauty school dropout
(Beauty school dropout)
Hanging around the corner store
Beauty school dropout
(Beauty school dropout)
It's about time you knew the score

[BLAINE with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS harmonizing]
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!

[BLAINE & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]
Baby don't sweat it
(Don't sweat it)
You're not cut out to hold a job
Better forget it
(Forget it)
Who wants their hair done by a slob?
[BLAINE with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS harmonizing]
Now your bangs are curled, your lashes whirled
But still the world is cruel
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school!

[BLAINE]
Baby don't blow it
Don't put my good advice to shame
Baby you know it
Even Dear Abby'd say the same!

[BLAINE with NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS harmonizing]
Now I've called the shot, get off the pot, I really gotta fly!

[BLAINE & (NEW DIRECTIONS GIRLS)]
Gotta be going to that, malt shop, in the sky!
Beauty school dropout
(Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school
Beauty school dropout
(Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school
Beauty school dropout
(Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school