Heathers The Musical - Beautiful Chords & Tabs

by Misc Musicals

[VERONICA]
                               Cm                            
September 1st, 1989. Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person.
Ya know, I think there's good in everyone.
  Cm Cm7 F/C Cm F7     F9 Abmaj7 Bb       
But here we are, first day of senior year!
Cm    Cm7    F/C    Cm/Eb    Eb/F    F7        F9    Abmaj7    Bb                      
I look around at all these kids I've known all my life and I ask myself: What happened?

[KIDS]
Cm     Cm7   F/C     Cm/Eb Eb/F F7     F9       Abmaj7 Bb
Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass!

[VERONICA]
Cm                          C7sus4
We were so tiny, happy and shiny, playing tag and getting chased.

[KIDS]
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!

[VERONICA]
C6sus
Singing and clapping,
                Abmaj7/C
laughing and napping,
baking cookies, eating paste.

[KIDS]
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!

[VERONICA]
Cm                 
Then we got bigger.
C7sus4
That was the trigger,
Like the Huns invading Rome - Sorry!
Am7#5/C
Welcome to my school,
                   Abmaj7/C
This ain't no high school:
This is the Thunderdome.
Fm          Db/F
Hold your breath
and count the days,
      Cm/Eb           
we're graduating soon.

[KIDS]
White trash!

[VERONICA]
Eb/Db   Db      Eb/Db Dbmaj7
College will be paradise
   G7      Ab/G       Gm7 Cm/G
If I'm not dead by June!
      Abmaj9     Ebmaj9                   
But I know, I know, life can be beautiful.
  Abmaj9    Ebmaj9             Ebadd2
I pray, I pray for a better way.
      Ab/C         Fm9/C
If we changed back then,
         Eb7/Ab  Ab   
we could change again.
F7sus4   F7    G7sus4
We can be beautiful...

[HIPSTER DORK]
Ow!

[VERONICA]
Just not today.
Cm Cm7 F/C Cm/Eb Eb/F
Hey, are you okay?

[HIPSTER DORK]
F7     F9 Abmaj7 Bb
Get away, nerd.

[KIDS]
Cm     Cm7   F/C    Cm/Eb Eb/F F7     F9   Abmaj7 Bb
Freak! Slut! Cripple!  Homo!   Homo!  Homo!

[VERONICA]
Cm                    
Things will get better
C7sus4
soon as my letter
comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown.
Am7#5/C
Wake from this coma,
           Abmaj9/C
take my diploma,
N.C.
then I can blow this town.
Fm       Db/F             
Dream of ivy-covered walls
     Ebmaj13             
and smoky French cafes...

[RAM]
Watch it!

[VERONICA]
Eb/Db     Db      Eb/Db    Dbmaj7    G7       Ab/G     Gm7Cm/G
Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!

[RAM]
G7      
Ooooops.

[VERONICA]
N.C. or (xxxx01)
Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker.
And eighth year of smacking lunch trays and BEING A HUGE DICK.

[RAM]
What did you say to me skank?

[VERONICA]
N.C.
... Nothing.

[VERONICA & KIDS]
      Abmaj9     Ebadd2                   
But I know, I know, life can be beautiful.
  Fm11/Eb  Ebmaj9               
I pray, I pray for a better way.
Cm7#5        Gm7#5/Bb
We were kind before,
         Eb7/Ab     Ab   
we can be kind once more.
F7sus4   F7    G7sus4
We will be beautiful...

[VERONICA]
Agh!... Hey Martha.

[MARTHA]
Hey.

[VERONICA]
Cm Cm7                             Abmaj7 Bb   
Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers.

[MARTHA]
Cm Cm7                
We on for movie night?

[VERONICA]
                            Abmaj7 Bb
Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail.

[MARTHA]
      Cm Cm7                  
I rented "The Princess Bride."

[VERONICA]
                                Abmaj7 Bb 
Again? Don't you have it memorized by now?

[MARTHA]
Cm Cm7                                     Abmaj7 Bb
What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

[KURT]
            Cm Cm7          
Martha Dumptruck! Wide load!
N.C.
Honnnnnk!

[VERONICA]
N.C. or (xxxx01)
Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team.
Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.
Hey! Pick that up right now!

[KURT]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?

[VERONICA]
Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant.

[KURT]
N.C.                        G7sus4
You have a zit right there.

[VERONICA]
N.C.
Dear diary:
Ebm6/Gb
Why...

[HIPSTER DORK]
                Bbm/F
Why do they hate me?

[REPUBLICAN GIRL]
                  F7/Eb
Why don't I fight back?

[KURT]
            Bbm/Db       Bbm   
Why do I act like such a creep?

[VERONICA]
Ebm6/Gb
Why...

[MARTHA]
                 Bbm/F
Why won't he date me?

[RAM]
              F7/Eb
Why did I hit him?

[STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING, & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY]
           Bbm/Db       Bbm  
Why do I cry myself to sleep?

[VERONICA]
Abm6/B  
Why?!...

[KIDS]
          Ebm/Bb
Somebody hug me!
          Bb7/Ab
Somebody fix me!
          Ebm/Gb 
Somebody save me!
             B7/F   
Send me a sign, God!
Give me some hope here!
                  E7/Bb D5
Something to live for!

[Interlude]
D A/D Am/D G/D Eb/D
D A/D Am/D G/D Eb/D

[KIDS]
D   Bm11     G/F      Eb6         D    
Aah... Heather, Heather, and Heather...

[VERONICA]
                      Bbmaj7                       
Then there's the Heathers. They float above it all.

[KIDS]
D   Bm11     G/F      Eb6         D    
I love Heather, Heather, and Heather...
    Bm11     G/F      Eb6         D    
I hate Heather, Heather, and Heather...

[VERONICA]
Heather McNamara. Head cheerleader. Her dad's loaded - he sells engagement rings.

[KIDS]
    Bm11     G/F      Eb6         D    
I want Heather, Heather, and Heather...

[VERONICA]
Heather Duke. Runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants.
And Heather Chandler. The Almighty.

[KIDS]
    Bm11     G/F      Eb6
I need Heather, Heather-

[VERONICA]
N.C.
She is a mythic bitch.
Fm             Db/F           Ebmaj9                   
They are solid Teflon - never bothered, never harassed.
Eb/Db   Db   Eb/Db   Dbmaj7  G7       Ab/G
I would give anything to be like that.

[HIPSTER DORK]
G7      Abmaj9              Ebmaj13
I'd like to be their boyfriend.

[KIDS]
That would be beautiful.

[STONER CHICK]
Abmaj9                                    Ebmaj7
If I sat at their table, guys would notice me!

[KIDS]
So beautiful!

[MARTHA]
Abmaj9/C  Gm7   Bb   Eb7/Ab
I'd like them to be nicer.

[KIDS]
           Ab           
That would be beautiful.

[BELEAGUERED GEEK]
F7sus4                 F               Cm7/F                  F7sus4
I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse
F                    N.C.
and leave her tied up for the rats!

[HEATHER DUKE]
  Cm7 F/C F7 F9
(vomits)

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
  Cm7 F/C                F7     F9  
Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87.

[HEATHER MCNAMARA]
                                  Cm7 F/C
Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather.

[HEATHER DUKE]
           Cm7 F/C            
Yeah, Heather, Maybe I should.

[MS. FLEMING]
N.C.
Ah, Heather and Heather...and Heather.
C#m   C#m7  F#/C#                                    F#7        F#9           
Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class.

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
                C#m   C#m7  F#/C#              
Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her.

[MS. FLEMING]
      F#7        F#9                       C#m   C#m7F#/C#
Not without a hall pass you're not. Week's detention.

[VERONICA]
N.C.
Uh, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee.

[MS. FLEMING]
Ebm       F/Eb       Dbmaj7 Bbm                               EbmF/Eb
... I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going.

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
            Dbmaj7 Bbm              Ebm F/Eb
This is an excellent forgery. Who are you?

[VERONICA]
               Dbmaj7 Bbm       
Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon.

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
        Ebm F/Eb
What boon?

[VERONICA]
                      Dbmaj7 Bbm                                       
Um, let me sit at your table at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary.
    Ebm F/Eb                                         Dbmaj7 Bbm
If people think you guys tolerate me, they'll leave me alone...
  Ebm F/Eb                                                      Dbmaj7 Bbm    
Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes.

[HEATHER DUKE]
How about prescriptions?

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
Shut up, Heather.

[HEATHER DUKE]
F              
Sorry, Heather.

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
     F                           F                          
For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure.

[HEATHER MCNAMARA]
       Fsus4                                              Fadd4                
And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull,
         Bb7    F                 Gbmaj13/F     
I'd have matching halves. That's very important.

[HEATHER DUKE]
Bb7sus/F                 Gbmaj13/F       N.C.
Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds.

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
       Gbmaj7                 
And ya know, ya know, ya know?
Db                      
This could be beautiful.
   Gbmaj7                     
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss,
Db                   Dbsus
and we're on our way.
        Gb/Bb      Db/Ab 
Get this girl some blush;
               F/Gb        Gb  
And Heather, I need your brush.
Eb7sus4
Let's make her beautiful.

[HEATHER MCNAMARA]
Let's make her beautiful...

[HEATHER DUKE]
Let's make her beautiful...

[HEATHER CHANDLER]
F7sus4
Make her beautiful!
Okay?

[VERONICA]
Okay!

[KURT]
Ebm6/Gb        Bbm/F
Out of my way, geek!

[BELEAGUERED GEEK]
                 F7/Eb
I don't want trouble!

[RAM]
            Bbm/Db    Bbm
You're gonna die at 3pm!

[REPUBLICAN GIRL & GOTH GIRL]
Ebm6/Gb             Bbm/F             F7/Eb
Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert!

[BELEAGUERED GEEK]
          Bbm/Db     Bbm 
What'd I ever do to them?

[KIDS]
Abm6/F             Ebm/Bb
Who could survive this?
               Bb7/Ab
I can't escape this!
Ebm/F         F7sus4
I think I'm dying!

[MS. FLEMING]
N.C.
Who's that with Heather?

[KIDS]
Eb/BbGb/Bb Ebm6/Bb
Whoa.
Bb5   F/Bb   Abmaj7/Bb     Ebmaj7/Bb
Heather, Heather, Heather...

[GOTH GIRL]
And someone!

[KIDS]
Bb5   F/Bb   Abmaj7/Bb     Eb/Bb
Heather, Heather, Heather...

[PRINCIPAL, COACH, & MS. FLEMING]
Ebmaj7/Bb  
And a babe!

[KIDS]
Bb5   F/Bb  Abm/Bb Eb/Bb    
Heather, Heather, Heather...

[MARTHA]
N.C.        F7sus4
Veronica?!

[KIDS]
    Gb F 
Veronica?
    Gb F 
Veronica!
Gb F7sus4
Veronica!!!

[VERONICA & KIDS]
       Esus/A                 E                      
And ya know, ya know, ya know, life can be beautiful.
    Esus/A                    E                     
You hope, you dream, you pray, and you get your way!
C#m7#5 G#m7#5/B
Ask me how it feels
          E7/A    A           
looking like hell on wheels...
F#7sus4
My God, it's beautiful!
F#7sus4
I might be beautiful!
G#7sus4
And when you're beautiful...
                              C#
It's a beautiful frickin' day!

[KIDS]
   G#/C#     G#m/C#    F#/C#        C# 
Heather!  Heather!  Heather!  Veronica!
   G#/C#     G#m/C#    F#/C#        C#5
Heather!  Heather!  Heather!  Veronica!
A D#dim C#5
Veronica!
A D#dim C#5
Veronica!
A D#dim C#5
Veronica!
      C# 
VERONICA!