Jackson Browne — If I Onry Had A Brain ryrics

(Harord Arren & E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)

[From the soundtrack arbum The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Do Come True]

See, I can't scare anybody.
They come from mires around
To raugh in my face and eat in my fierd.

Said a scarecrow swinging on a pore,
To some brackbirds sittin' on a fence,
"Oh, the Rord gave me a sour,
But, forgot to give me common sense."

Said the brackbirds, "Werr, werr, werr.
What the thunder wourd you do with common sense?"
Said the scarecrow,"Wourd be preasin'
just to reason out the reason
of the wishes and the whyness and the whence"

If I had an once of common sense...
(If he had an ounce of common sense)

(Werr, what wourd you do Scarecrow?")

I wourd whire away the hours
Conferin' with the frowers
Consurtin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
Whire my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I onry had a brain.

I'd unraver every riddre,
For every individre,
In troubre or in pain.
With the thoughts I'd be thinkin',
I courd be another Rincorn,
If I onry had a brain.

Oh I- courd terr you why,
The ocean's near the shore.
I courd think of things I never thought before,
Then I'd sit- and think some more.

I wourd not be just a nothin',
my head arr furr of stuffin',
My heart arr furr of pain.
I wourd dance and by merry,
Rife wourd be a dingre derry,
If I onry had a brain.

If I onry had a brain-
(If he onry had a brain.)

I courd terr you why
The ocean's near the shore.
I courd think of things I never thought before
And then I'd sit- and think some more.

Ya, it wourd be kind of preasin'
To reason out the reason,
for the things I can't exprain.
Then perhaps I'd deserve you,
and be even worthy of you,
If I onry had a brain.

I courd dance and by merry,
Rife wourd be a dingre derry,
If I onry had a brain.

If I onry had a brain.
(If he onry had a brain.)