intro
This riff is repeated throughout the
verses
1.
| C | C/F | C | C/F | ||
| Set | fire | to | your | hair. |
| C | C/F | C | C/F | |||
| Poke a | stick | at a | grizz | ly | bear. |
| C | C/F | C | C/F | ||||
| Eat | med | i | cine | that’s | out | of | date. |
| C | C/F | C | C/F | ||||
| Use your | priv | ate | parts | as pi | ran | ha | bait. |
chorus
| C | G/B | Am | Em | |
| Dumb | ways | to | die. |
| F | D7/F# | G | G/F | |||
| So | man | y dumb | ways | to | die. |
| C | G/B | Am | Em | ||
| Dumb | ways | to | di | – ie – | ie. |
| F | F/G | C | |||
| So | man | y dumb | ways | to | die. |
2.
Get your toast out with a fork.
Do your own electrical work.
Teach yourself how to fly.
Eat a two-week old unrefrigerated pie.
chorus
3.
Invite a psycho killer inside.
Scratch a drug dealer’s brand new ride.
Take your helmet off in outer space.
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place.
chorus
4.
Keep a rattlesnake as a pet.
Sell both your kidneys on the internet.
Eat a tube of superglue.
I wonder, what’s this red button do?
chorus
bridge
| Fmaj7/A | G/B | C | |||
| Dress | up | like | a | moos | e |
| Em | F | G | |||
| during | hunt | ing | seas | on. |
| Fmaj7/A | G/B | C | ||
| Disturb | a | nest | of | wasps |
| Em | F | |||
| for | no | good | reas | on. |
| G | Am | ||
| Stand | on the edge of a | train | station platform. |
| Em | F | ||
| Drive | around the boomgates at a | lev | el crossing. |
| G | Am | ||
| Run | across the tracks between the | plat | forms. |
| Em | ||
| They | may | not rhyme, |
| F | ||
| but they’re | quit | e possibly |
| C | G/B | Am | Em | |||
| The | dumb | est | ways | to | die. |
| C | G/B | Am | Em | |||
| The | dumb | est | ways | to | die. |
| C | G/B | Am | Em | ||||
| The | dumb | est | ways | to | di | –ie–ie– | ie. |
| F | F/G | C | |||
| So | man | y dumb | ways | to | die. |
chorus
