| See, I can’t scare anybody.
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| They come from miles around
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| To laugh in my face and eat in my field.
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| Said a scarecrow swinging on a pole,
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| To some blackbirds sittin' on a fence,
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| «Oh, the Lord gave me a soul,
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| But, forgot to give me common sense.»
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| Said the blackbirds, «Well, well, well.
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| What the thunder would you do with common sense?»
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| Said the scarecrow,"Would be pleasin'
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| just to reason out the reason
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| of the wishes and the whyness and the whence"
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| If I had an once of common sense…
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| (If he had an ounce of common sense)
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| (Well, what would you do Scarecrow?")
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| I would while away the hours
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| Conferin' with the flowers
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| Consultin' with the rain
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| And my head I’d be scratchin'
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| While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
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| If I only had a brain.
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| I’d unravel every riddle,
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| For every individle,
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| In trouble or in pain.
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| With the thoughts I’d be thinkin',
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| I could be another Lincoln,
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| If I only had a brain.
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| Oh I- could tell you why,
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| The ocean’s near the shore.
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| I could think of things I never thought before,
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| Then I’d sit- and think some more.
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| I would not be just a nothin',
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| my head all full of stuffin',
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| My heart all full of pain.
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| I would dance and by merry,
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| Life would be a dingle derry,
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| If I only had a brain.
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| If I only had a brain-
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| (If he only had a brain.)
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| I could tell you why
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| The ocean’s near the shore.
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| I could think of things I never thought before
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| And then I’d sit- and think some more.
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| Ya, it would be kind of pleasin'
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| To reason out the reason,
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| for the things I can’t explain.
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| Then perhaps I’d deserve you,
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| and be even worthy of you,
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| If I only had a brain.
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| I could dance and by merry,
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| Life would be a dingle derry,
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| If I only had a brain.
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| If I only had a brain.
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| (If he only had a brain.) |