If I Only Had a Brain (Instrumental Version)

Writtenby：E.Y.Harburg/HaroldArlen

I could while away the hours

Conferring with the flowers

Consulting with the rain

And my head I'd be scratching

While my thoughts were busy hatching

If I only had a brain

I'd unravel every riddle

For any individ'le

In trouble or in pain

With the thoughts I'd be thinking

I could be another Lincoln

If I only had a brain

Oh I could 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 nothing

My head all full of stuffing

My heart all full of pain

And perhaps I deserve you

And be even worthy serve you

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'

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 boys that shoots the arrows

If I only had a heart

Picture me a balcony

Above a voice sings so low

Wherefore art thou Romeo

I hear a beat

How sweet

I would register emotion jealousy devotion

And really feel the part

I would stay young and chipper

And I'd lock it with a zipper

If I only had a heart

Yeh it's 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 dandelion

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 roared the way I've never roared before

And then I'd woof and roar some more

I would show the dinosaurus

Who's king around the forres'

A king they better serve

Why with my regal beezer I could be another Caesar

If I only had the nerve