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[Verse 1]
         B5                          E5
Oh, he's much the same as anyone, He don't do what he's told
       F#5                                  E5                B5  E5 D5
He got hostile on his school report, and he leaves his mother cold
    B5                         E5
His father owned a bakery, one day they found him hanged
         F#5                                           E5            B5  E5 D5
It don't pay to be free in Little Italy, his son's the leader of the gang


[Chorus]
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
         C#5                  B5
Restless youth, restless youth


[Verse 2]
   B5                                    E5
He soon found out he could not work, the money was no good
     F#5                                             E5                B5   E5 D5
This child of the city hit the welfare kitty, did some runnin' for the hoods
        B5                                 E5
And the logic of the street was such, that everything was bent
          F#5                                                         E5                      B5  E5 D5
There's a lot of white collars, stealing government dollars, wouldn't notice such a little percent


[Chorus]
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
         C#5             B5
Restless youth, restless youth
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
                   C#5                  B5
Oh, yes cause I've been a restless youth


[Verse 3]
      B5                              E5
Now I went to his graduation, in some Brooklyn overnight jail
   F#5                                                     E5                    B5 E5 D5
He said he was a member of the rock'n roll nation, but his face was drawn 'n pale
     B5                                   E5
They gave him a suspended sentence, 'n he got straight on the phone
         F#m                                     E5                    B5    E5 D5
Called a big, big, man with a Miami tan 'n said "Hi I'm Al Capone, the second"


[Chorus]
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
            C#5                                  B5
What do you know, I'm the original Restless Youth
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
                 C#5                       B5
I've been on the phone to my Restless Youth


[Verse 4]
        B5                               E5
Now his first hit came at seventeen, his second was his last
     F#m                                         E5                   B5 E5 D5
Some dealer ran screaming from the scene, as the bullets whistled past
       B5                                    E5
'N the cop that killed him shook his head 'n said "I swear the truth
       F#m                              E5                  B5 E5 D5
When I know it was some old, old man 'n not a restless youth."


[Chorus]
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
         C#5             B5
Restless youth, restless youth
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
                   C#5                          B5
Go by the rules if you are, oh, a Restless Youth


[Verse 5]
        B5                          E5
Now the moral of this story is that all he saw was greed
F#m                             E5                B5 E5 D5
Legal, illegalities 'n all them politician thieves
     B5                          E5
Good people of the U.S.A. if you want your kids to grow
     F#m                                 E5                  B5 E5 D5
Then check your harvest carefully, don't reap; before you sow


[Chorus]
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
         C#5                                     B5
Restless youth, I just know he's a restless youth
         B5              E5
Restless youth, restless youth
             C#5                                        B5
You're gonna lose cause you know you're a Restless Youth...