{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":63881,"song":"How To Be Dumb","artist":"Elvis Costello","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11542667-how-to-be-dumb-chords-by-elvis-costello/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/63881?type=chord","rating":4.82758,"votes":9,"content":"[tab]#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\r\n#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #\r\n#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #\r\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\r\nfrom: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany\r\ne-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com\r\nlyrics and chords of: How To Be Dumb by Elvis Costello[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhile you were living like a saint[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd all the time the very one you trusted[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWas washing off somebody else's paint[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow you've got yourself a brand new occupation[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nEvery fleeting thought is a pearl[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd beautiful people stampede through the doorway of[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe funniest fucker of the world[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey're here to help you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSatisfy your desire[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's a bright future for all you professional liars[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow you know how to be dumb[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAre you ready to take your place in[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G/B[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe modern museum of mistakes?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike a building thrown up overnight[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G/B[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn one of those reverse earthquakes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey emptied out all the asylums,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey emptied out all the goals[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe \"New Bruise\" was the name of the dance craze[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBy \"Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nFollowed up by \"Tortouzring Little Beaver\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith their contraption of barbed wire[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nBetween the fear and the fever lies[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAll the  rejection they require[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey'll be howling by midnight,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThey'll be drooling by dawn[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSkulls shrunk down to the size of their brains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHeads shaven and shorn[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow you know how to be dumb[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAre you ready to take your place in[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G/B[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe modern museum of mistakes?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike a building thrown up overnight[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G/B[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn one of those reverse earthquakes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTrapped in the house of the Perpetual Sucker[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere bitterness always ends so pityful[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou always had to dress up your envy in[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSome half-remembered philosophy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow you're masquerading as pale powdered genius[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhose every bad intention has been purged[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou could've walked out any time you wanted[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut face it you didn't have the courage[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI guess that makes you a full time hypocrite[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOr some kind of twisted dilletante[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFunny though people don't usually get so ugly[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n'Til they think they know what they want[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nScratch you own head stupid[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nCount up to three[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRoll over on your back[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nRepeat after me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAre you ready to take your place in[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G/B[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe modern museum of mistakes?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike a building thrown up overnight[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G/B[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn one of those reverse earthquakes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't you know how to be dumb?[/tab]\r","plain_text":"","chords":["G","D","Em","Bm","F","Dm","C","G/B"],"chord_diagrams":{"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G/B":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,0,0,0,2],"frets":[-1,2,0,0,0,3]}}}