How To Be Dumb chords by Elvis Costello

Chords with lyrics

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

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date: 95/10/15


G+G
I was hell-bent on ...
 D MajorD
While you were living ...
G+G
And all the time the ...
   E minorEm             B minorBm
Was washing off somebody ...

G+G
Now you've got yourself a ...
 D MajorD
Every fleeting ...
    G+G
And beautiful people stampede ...
   E minorEm          B minorBm
The funniest fucker ...

FF
They're here ...
DmDm       B minorBm
Satisfy ...
            C majorC              G+G
There's a bright future for ...

       C majorC     D MajorD
Now you ...
     G+G         C majorC
Are you ready to take ...
   G/BG/B     D MajorD
The modern museum ...
G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you know how ...
     G+G         C majorC
Like a building ...
  G/BG/B       D MajorD
In one of those ....

G+G
They emptied out all ...
D MajorD
They emptied out ...
G+G
The "New Bruise" was the ...
   E minorEm            B minorBm
By "Jesus Cross and the ...
G+G
Followed up by "...
 D MajorD
With their ...
G+G
Between the fear ...
E minorEm            B minorBm
All the rejection ...

FF
They'll be ...
DmDm           B minorBm
They'll be ...
                     C majorC
Skulls shrunk down to ...
          G+G
Heads shaven and sh....

       C majorC     D MajorD
Now you know how ...
     G+G         C majorC
Are you ready to ...
   G/BG/B     D MajorD
The modern ...
G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you know how ...
     G+G         C majorC
Like a building ...
  G/BG/B       D MajorD
In one of those ....

 E minorEm
Trapped in the ...
     C majorC            D MajorD
Where ....
E minorEm
You always had to ...
 C majorC            D MajorD
Some half-remembered ph...

 G+G
Now you're masquerading as ...
    D MajorD
Whose every bad intention ...
G+G
You could've walked ...
   E minorEm              B minorBm
But face it you didn't ...
G+G
I guess that makes you ...
  D MajorD
Or some kind of twisted ...
 G+G
Funny though people ...
      E minorEm            B minorBm
'Til they think they ...

FF
Scratch you ...
DmDm
Count ...
B minorBm         C majorC
Roll over ...
       G+G
Repeat ...

        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you know ...
     G+G         C majorC
Are you ready to ..
   G/BG/B     D MajorD
The modern museum ...
G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you know ...
     G+G         C majorC
Like a building ...
  G/BG/B       D MajorD
In one of those ...

G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you ...?
G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you ...
G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you know how ...
G+G        C majorC     D MajorD
Don't you know ...
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