Dumbing Down                  copyright 2008 Stan Lyness
roadhouse blues, M vocal

VERSE
    Does the office                                   1
    keep you hoppin'?                                 1
    and have you told your boss you figured out       4   1
       how instead of workin' harder                  4
   you could all be workin' smarter?                  1
         And were you told to shut your mouth?        2  5 (5 5aug)
  Well, your brain is not required                    4
      for success in your department.                 1
      Look heroic fighting fires                      4
        even if you gotta start em.                   1
   If you're gonna rise higher,                       5
   you gotta learn the art of                         4
             dumbing down.                            1   17
CHORUS:
     Dumbing down,                                    4   4
     dumbing down.                                    1   1
   If you're buckin' for promotion,                   5
        be ambitious, learn to show some dumbing down.4   1   57

VERSE
 When you're votin',                                  1
      no use hopin'                                   1
       for a nominee who's not a joke.                4   1
  Choose the sewer or the gutter,                     4
     one war party or the other,                      1
        otherwise you'll only waste your vote.        2  5 (5 5aug)
         The bad cop picks your pocket;               4
   while the good cop steals more,                    1
     just to buy you drugs and rockets,               4
         and send your son to war.                    1
         Put either one in office                     5
        and, either way you're                        4
             dumbing down.                            1   17
CHORUS:    
     Dumbing down,                                    4   4
     dumbing down.                                    1   1
       First Tuesday in November,                     5
   hold your nose, pull the lever, dumbing down.      4   1   57

VERSE
Girl have you noticed                                 1
    what's between us?                                1
           A chemistry we must obey.                  4   1
    Heaven's waitin' for us, honest,                  4
       I can take you there as long as                1
        your intellect ain't in your way.             2  5 (5 5aug)
         You gotta be thinkin' slow                   4
             in this world of mine.                   1
    When you thought you couldn't sink this low,      4
             you weren't really tryin'.               1
        Just talk like me, afore ya know,             5
             you'll be doin' fine,                    4
             dumbing down.                            1   17
CHORUS 2x & OUT:
     Dumbing down,                                    4   4
     dumbing down.                                    1   1
    If we're gonna be a twosome,                      5
         you gotta learn to do some dumbing down.     4   1   17
     Dumbing down,                                    4   4
     dumbing down.                                    1   1
   If you don't know how to do it,                    5
        I'll show you how to dumb down.               4   47  1