How to Be Dumb chords by Elvis Costello
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Verse 1
(D major) (G major) I was hell-bent on on destroying
my powers of concentration
(D major) While you were living like a saint
(G major) And all the time the very one you
trusted was (E minor) washing off
Somebody else's (B minor) paint
Verse 2
(G major) Now you've got yourself a
brand new occupation
(D major) Every fleeting thought is a pearl
And (G major) beautiful people
stampede to the doorway
Of the (E minor) funniest fucker in
the (B minor) world (F major)
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Verse 3
They're here to help you (D major)
Satisfy your desire (B minor)
There's a bright future (C major) for
Verse 4
all you professional liars
(G major) [Chorus]
Now you know (C major) how to be dum (D major) b
Are you (G major) ready to take your (C major) place in the
(G major) modern museum (D major) of mistakes?
(G major) Don't you know (C major) how to be dum (B minor) b?
Like a (G major) building thrown up overnight (C major) in
(G major) one of those (D major) reverse earthquakes
Verse 5
(G major) They emptied out all the asylums,
(D major) they emptied out all the jails
(G major) The "new bruise" was
the name of a dance craze
By (E minor) "Jesus cross and the
cruel (B minor) nails" (G major)
Followed up by "torturing little beaver"
(D major) With their contraption of barbed wire
(G major) Between the fear and the fever lies (E minor) all the
rejection they re (B minor) quire (F major)
They'll be howling by midnight,
(D major) they'll be drooling by dawn
(B minor) Skulls shrunk down to the
size of their (C major) brains
Interlude 1
Heads shaven and shorn
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Verse 6
(E major) [Chorus]
Trapped in the house of the
perpetual sucker
Where (A minor) bitterness always
ends so (D major) pitifully (G major) (E major)
You always had to dress up your envy
in some (A minor) half-remembered
Philosophy
Philosophy (D major) (G major)
Verse 7
(G major) Now you're masquerading as
pale powdered genius
Whose (D major) ever bad intention has been purged
(G major) You could've walked out any time
you wanted but (E minor) face it you
Didn't have the (B minor) courage
(G major) I guess that makes you a full time
hypocrite or (D major) some kind of
Twisted dilettante
(G major) Funny though people don't usually
get so ugly 'til they think (E minor)
They know what they want (B minor) (F major)
Scratch your own head stupid
(D major) Count up to three (B minor)
Roll over on your back (C major)
Repeat after me
(G major) Don't you know
Verse 8
(C major) how to be dum (D major) b?
Are you (G major) ready to take your (C major) place in the
(G major) modern museum (D major) of mistakes?
(G major) Don't you know (C major) how to be dumb?
(B minor) Like a (G major) building thrown up (C major) overnight in (G major) one of those re (D major) verse earthquakes
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How to Be Dumb
Elvis Costello
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