from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
lyrics and chords of: How To Be Dumb by Elvis Costello

Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!
date: 95/10/15


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I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration
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While you were living like a saint
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And all the time the very one you trusted
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Was washing off somebody else's paint

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Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation
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Every fleeting thought is a pearl
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And beautiful people stampede through the doorway of
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The funniest fucker of the world

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They're here to help you
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Satisfy your desire
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There's a bright future for all you professional liars

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Now you know how to be dumb
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                  CC Piano Chord 

Are you ready to take your place in
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          DD Piano Chord 

The modern museum of mistakes?
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               CC Piano Chord 
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Don't you know how to be dumb?
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Like a building thrown up overnight
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In one of those reverse earthquakes

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They emptied out all the asylums,
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They emptied out all the goals
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The "New Bruise" was the name of the dance craze
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By "Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails"
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Followed up by "Tortouzring Little Beaver"
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With their contraption of barbed wire
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Between the fear and the fever lies
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All the  rejection they require

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They'll be howling by midnight,
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They'll be drooling by dawn
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Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains
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Heads shaven and shorn

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         DD Piano Chord 

Now you know how to be dumb
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                  CC Piano Chord 

Are you ready to take your place in
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          DD Piano Chord 

The modern museum of mistakes?
GG Piano Chord 
               CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb?
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                  CC Piano Chord 

Like a building thrown up overnight
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             DD Piano Chord 

In one of those reverse earthquakes

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Trapped in the house of the Perpetual Sucker
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Where bitterness always ends so pityful
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You always had to dress up your envy in
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Some half-remembered philosophy

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Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius
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Whose every bad intention has been purged
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You could've walked out any time you wanted
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But face it you didn't have the courage
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I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite
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Or some kind of twisted dilletante
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Funny though people don't usually get so ugly
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'Til they think they know what they want

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Scratch you own head stupid
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Count up to three
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                 CC Piano Chord 

Roll over on your back
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Repeat after me

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         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb
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                  CC Piano Chord 

Are you ready to take your place in
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          DD Piano Chord 

The modern museum of mistakes?
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               CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb?
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                  CC Piano Chord 

Like a building thrown up overnight
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             DD Piano Chord 

In one of those reverse earthquakes

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               CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb?
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               CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb?
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               CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb?
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               CC Piano Chord 
         DD Piano Chord 

Don't you know how to be dumb?
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