Chords for Jackson Browne - If I Only Had A Brain

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_ _ _ _ _ Boom! _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You're so scared.
I can't scare anybody.
_ _ Ooooooh.
They _ come from miles around laughing my face, eating my field.
_ [Gb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
[F] There's a scarecrow swinging on a pole,
To some blackbirds sitting on a fence.
[G] Oh the Lord [C] gave me [Gm] a soul,
[C] But forgot to give me [Bb] common _ [C] sense.
[F] Said the blackbirds, well, well, well,
Why the thunder won't you [Gb] come with [C] common sense?
Said the scarecrow,
Would be pleasing just to reason [Gm] out the reason of the [C] whispers and the whiners and the whents.
[F] _ If [C] I had an [Eb] ounce of [C] common _ _ sense,
If he had an [F] ounce of common _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ [D] sense,
I would while [C] away the hours [Dm] conferring with the flowers,
[Bb] Insulting with the rain.
[Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] And my head I'd be scratching while my [C] thoughts were busy etching,
[F] If I only had a brain.
_ _ _ I'd unravel every [C] riddle for [Bb] every individual, _
[C] Trouble or [Bb] in pain.
[C] _ _ _ [Gm]
With the thoughts I'd be thinking I could be another Lincoln,
If [F] I only had a brain. _ _
[Bb] Oh I could tell [Am] you why, _
_ [Gm] Oceans [C] never [F] soar,
I [A] could think of things I never thought [Dm] before.
Then [G] I'd sit,
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[Bb] And think some more.
[C] _ [F] I would not be [C] just a nothing,
[Dm] My head all [Bb] full of stuffing,
[C] My heart all [Bb] full of pain.
[C] _ _ [Bb] I [Gm] would dance and be merry,
[C] Life would be a ding-a-derry,
[F] If I only [Bb] had a [F] brain.
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_ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _ If I only had a [F] brain.
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_ _ _ If [F] _ _ [C] _
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I only had a [F] brain. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I could [Am] tell you _ why,
[Gm] _ Oceans [F] never soar,
[A] I could think of things I never [Dm] thought before.
_ Then I'd sit,
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And [Bb] think some [C] more.
It [F] would be kind of pleasing,
[Dm] To [Bb] reason out the reasons,
[C] Things I [Bb] can't explain.
[C] _ _ [Gm] Then perhaps I'd deserve you and be [C] even worthy of you,
_ _ If I [F] only had [Bb] a brain.
[F] _ _ I [Gm] could dance and be merry,
[C] Life would be a ding-a-derry,
[F] If I only [Bb] had a [F] brain.
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_ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _ If I only had a [F] brain.
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If I only _ had a [F] brain.
If [C] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] I _ _ only had a [F] brain. _ _
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