[Intro] C  G  F

[Verse I]
             C               G
You were the popular one, the popular chick
   F              C
It is what it is, now I'm popular-ish
 C                    G
Standing on the field with your pretty pompoms
           F                     C
Now you're working at the movies selling popular corn
  C                      G
I could have been a mess but I never went wrong
      F                         C
Cause I'm putting down my story in a popular song

[Pre-Chorus]

C    G            F                     C
Ahh,   I said I'm putting down my story in a popular song

[Chorus]

   C       G               F     C
My problem,  I never was a model,
                 C    G                     F   C
I never was a scholar, but you were always popular
         C      G                F        C
You were singing all the songs I don't know
                  C       G
Now you're in the front row
                 F    C
Cause my song is popular
C       G              F   C
Popular,  I know about popular
               C           G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
 F                   C
You're only ever who you were
C       G              F   C
Popular,  I know about popular
                 C           G
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
       F                  C
That's all you ever need to know
         C             G                        F   C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
         C             G                        F   C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go

[Verse II]

C                 G
Always on the lookout for someone to hate,
F             C
Picking on me like a dinner plate
    C              G
You hid during classes and in between them
F                      C
Dunk me in the toilets now it's you that cleans them
             C                G
You tried to make me feel bad with the things you do
   F             C
It aint so funny when the jokes on you
C              G
Ooh, the jokes on you
             F                  C
Got everyone laughing, got everyone clapping, asking
C      G
How do you look so cool?
      F                          C
Cause that's the only thing that I learned at school, boy
C    G          F                          C
  Uh huh,I said that's the only thing that I learned at school

[Chorus]

   C       G               F     C
My problem,  I never was a model,
                 C    G                     F   C
I never was a scholar, but you were always popular
         C      G                F        C
You were singing all the songs I don't know
                  C       G
Now you're in the front row
                 F    C
Cause my song is popular
C       G              F   C
Popular,  I know about popular
               C           G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
 F                   C
You're only ever who you were
C       G              F   C
Popular,  I know about popular
                 C           G
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
       F                  C
That's all you ever need to know
         C             G                        F   C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go
         C             G                        F   C
So catch up, cause you got an awful long way to go

[Bridge]

                     C     G
All you ever need to know
                         F    C
You're only ever who you were
                     C     G
All you ever need to know
                         F     C
You're only ever who you were

All you ever need to know
C        G              F   C
Popular,   I know about popular
               C           G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
 F                   C
You're only ever who you were

C        G              F   C
Popular,   I know about popular
               C           G
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
 F                   C
You're only ever who you were

C        G              F   C
Popular,   I know about popular
                 C           G
And all that you have to do, is be true to you
       F                  C
That's all you ever need to know
                            C
That's all you ever need to know