If I Only Had A Brain 1938

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 June 2012
2012

I could wile away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain

With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain

Oh, I would tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things
I never thunk before
And then I'd sit
and think some more

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a dingaderry
If I only had a brain.

When a man's an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presumin'
That I could be kinda human
If I only had a heart

I'd be tender, I'd be gentle
And awful sentimental
Regarding love and art
I'd be friends with the sparrows
And the boy that shoots the arrows
If I only had a heart

Picture me a balcony
Above a voice sings low
Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

I hear a beat, how sweet!

Just to register emotion,
jealousy, devotion
And really feel the part
I could stay young and chipper
And I'd lock it with a zipper
If I only had a heart.

Life is sad, believe me Missy
When you're born to be a sissy
Without the vim and verve
But I could change my habits
never more be scared of rabbits
If I only had the nerve.

I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dandylion
A fate I don't deserve
but I could show my prowess
be a lion not a mowess
If I only had the nerve.

Oh I'd be in my stride
a king down to the core
Oh I'd roar the way
I never roared before,
and then I'd rrrwooof
and roar some more.

I would show the dinosaurus
who's king around the fores'
a king they'd better serve,
Why with my regal beezer
I could be another Caesar
If I only had the nerve.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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If I Only Had A Brain 1938
from "The Wizard of Oz"
Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Music by Harold Arlen
© 1938 by MGM Inc.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 21 June 2012 at 09.18
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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