Elvis Costello – How To Be Dumb (Ukulele)

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from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
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lyrics and chords of: How To Be Dumb by Elvis Costello
Suggestions and corrections are always welcome! date: 95/10/15
G
I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration

  D
While you were living like a saint

G
And all the time the very one you trusted

      Em                         Bm
Was washing off somebody else's paint

G
Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation

  D
Every fleeting thought is a pearl

        G
And beautiful people stampede through the doorway of

      Em                    Bm
The funniest fucker of the world

F
They're here to help you

Dm             Bm
Satisfy your desire

                       C                           G
There's a bright future for all you professional liars

              C         D
Now you know how to be dumb

          G                  C
Are you ready to take your place in

     G/B          D
The modern museum of mistakes?

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?

          G                  C
Like a building thrown up overnight

   G/B             D
In one of those reverse earthquakes

G
They emptied out all the asylums,

D
They emptied out all the goals

G
The "New Bruise" was the name of the dance craze

     Em                        Bm
By "Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails"

G
Followed up by "Tortouzring Little Beaver"

 D
With their contraption of barbed wire

G
Between the fear and the fever lies

Em                        Bm
All the  rejection they require

F
They'll be howling by midnight,

Dm                      Bm
They'll be drooling by dawn

                                          C
Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains

                   G
Heads shaven and shorn

              C         D
Now you know how to be dumb

          G                  C
Are you ready to take your place in

     G/B          D
The modern museum of mistakes?

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?

          G                  C
Like a building thrown up overnight

   G/B             D
In one of those reverse earthquakes

  Em
Trapped in the house of the Perpetual Sucker

          C                       D
Where bitterness always ends so pityful

Em
You always had to dress up your envy in

 C                       D
Some half-remembered philosophy

 G
Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius

       D
Whose every bad intention has been purged

G
You could've walked out any time you wanted

     Em                           Bm
But face it you didn't have the courage

G
I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite

    D
Or some kind of twisted dilletante

  G
Funny though people don't usually get so ugly

           Em                        Bm
'Til they think they know what they want

F
Scratch you own head stupid

Dm
Count up to three

Bm                 C
Roll over on your back

             G
Repeat after me

                C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb

          G                  C
Are you ready to take your place in

     G/B          D
The modern museum of mistakes?

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?

          G                  C
Like a building thrown up overnight

   G/B             D
In one of those reverse earthquakes

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?

G               C         D
Don't you know how to be dumb?
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