Ukulele Anthem - Amanda Palmer (Studio Version) Chords
Tempo:
89.65 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
F#
F#m
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Key:
E
B
F#
F#m
F
E
B
F#
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[B] [E] .
[F#] [B] [E] .
[F#] [B] Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn't [E] sing and everybody hated.
[F#] him except the ones who loved [B] him.
A ukulele has four strings but Sid did not play [E] ukulele.
He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend [F#] Nancy Spungen.
[B] If only Sid had had a ukulele maybe he would [E] have been happy.
Maybe he would not have suffered [F#] such a sad [B] end.
He maybe would have not done all that heroin.
Instead he [E] maybe would have sat around just [F#] singing nice songs to his girlfriend.
[B] So play your favorite cover song especially if the words are [E] wrong.
Cause even if your grades are [F#] bad it doesn't mean you're [B] failing.
Do your homework with a fork and eat your Froot Loops in the [E] dark and bring your Etch-A-Sketch.
to work and play your [F#] [E] ukulele.
Ukulele small and [F#] fierce whole.
Ukulele brave and [B] peaceful.
You can play the [E] ukulele too it is painfully simple.
Play your ukulele [F#] badly.
Play your ukulele [F#m] loudly.
Ukulele banish evil.
Ukulele save the people.
Ukulele can lean the top of every [B] steeple.
Lucy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty [E] whacks and gave her father forty one.
[F#] and left a tragic puzzle.
[B] If only they had given her an instrument.
Those [E] Puritans had lost the plot completely.
[F#] See what happens when you [B] mausle a person's creativity.
And do not let them sing or [E] scream.
And nowadays it's worse cause kids have [F#] automatic [B] handguns.
It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the [E] ukulele.
About the same to teach someone [F#] to build a standard pipe bomb.
You do the math [B] so play your favorite cover song.
Especially if the words are [E] wrong.
Cause even if your grades are bad it doesn't [F#] mean you're failing.
[B] Do your homework with a fork and eat your Froot Loops in the dark [E] and bring your flask.
of jack to work [F#] and play your [E] ukulele.
Ukulele thing of wonder.
[F#] Ukulele wand [B] of thunder.
You can play the ukulele [E] too in London and down under.
Play Joan Jett and play Jacques [F#] Brel in Eminem and Neutral Milk.
[F#m] Oh tell the children crush the hatred.
Play your ukulele naked.
If anybody tries to steal your [F] ukulele let them [B] take it.
Imagine there's no music.
Imagine there are no songs.
Imagine [E] that John Lennon wasn't shot [F#] in front of his apartment.
[B].
Now imagine if John Lennon had composed Imagine for the [E].
ukulele.
Maybe people would [F#] have truly got the message.
[B] You may think my approach is simple minded and naive.
Like if you [E] wanted to change the world then [F#] why not quit and feed the hungry.
[B] But people for millennia have needed music to survive [E] and that is why I promised John.
[F#] that I will not feel [B] guilty.
So play your favorite Beatles song and make the subway fall [G#m] in love.
They're only [E] 19.
95.
That isn't [F#] lots of [B] money.
Play until the sun comes up and play until your fingers [E] suffer.
Play LCD sound system [F#] songs on your [B] ukulele.
Quit the bitching on your blog.
Stop pretending art is [E] hard.
Just slimming yourself to three [F#] chords.
Do not practice [B] daily.
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness with a piece of wood [E] and plastic.
Holy fuck it's so [F#] fantastic playing [B] ukulele.
Eat your homework with a fork and do your Fruit Loops in the [E] dark and bring your Etch-a-Sketch to work.
Your flask of black, your vibrator, your fear of heights, your Nikon [B] lens, your mom and dad,.
your disco stick, your soundtrack to Karate Kid, [E] your Ginson eyes, your rosary, [F#] your new Rebecca Black [B] CD,.
your favorite room, your Bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new [E] glass eye, your sousaphone, your breakfast tea,.
[F#] your naked great tapes, your thieving [B] tree, your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge [E] to cry.
Remember we're all gonna die.
.
So play [B] your ukulele.
.
[B] [E] .
[F#] [B] [E] .
[F#] [B] Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn't [E] sing and everybody hated.
[F#] him except the ones who loved [B] him.
A ukulele has four strings but Sid did not play [E] ukulele.
He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend [F#] Nancy Spungen.
[B] If only Sid had had a ukulele maybe he would [E] have been happy.
Maybe he would not have suffered [F#] such a sad [B] end.
He maybe would have not done all that heroin.
Instead he [E] maybe would have sat around just [F#] singing nice songs to his girlfriend.
[B] So play your favorite cover song especially if the words are [E] wrong.
Cause even if your grades are [F#] bad it doesn't mean you're [B] failing.
Do your homework with a fork and eat your Froot Loops in the [E] dark and bring your Etch-A-Sketch.
to work and play your [F#] [E] ukulele.
Ukulele small and [F#] fierce whole.
Ukulele brave and [B] peaceful.
You can play the [E] ukulele too it is painfully simple.
Play your ukulele [F#] badly.
Play your ukulele [F#m] loudly.
Ukulele banish evil.
Ukulele save the people.
Ukulele can lean the top of every [B] steeple.
Lucy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty [E] whacks and gave her father forty one.
[F#] and left a tragic puzzle.
[B] If only they had given her an instrument.
Those [E] Puritans had lost the plot completely.
[F#] See what happens when you [B] mausle a person's creativity.
And do not let them sing or [E] scream.
And nowadays it's worse cause kids have [F#] automatic [B] handguns.
It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the [E] ukulele.
About the same to teach someone [F#] to build a standard pipe bomb.
You do the math [B] so play your favorite cover song.
Especially if the words are [E] wrong.
Cause even if your grades are bad it doesn't [F#] mean you're failing.
[B] Do your homework with a fork and eat your Froot Loops in the dark [E] and bring your flask.
of jack to work [F#] and play your [E] ukulele.
Ukulele thing of wonder.
[F#] Ukulele wand [B] of thunder.
You can play the ukulele [E] too in London and down under.
Play Joan Jett and play Jacques [F#] Brel in Eminem and Neutral Milk.
[F#m] Oh tell the children crush the hatred.
Play your ukulele naked.
If anybody tries to steal your [F] ukulele let them [B] take it.
Imagine there's no music.
Imagine there are no songs.
Imagine [E] that John Lennon wasn't shot [F#] in front of his apartment.
[B].
Now imagine if John Lennon had composed Imagine for the [E].
ukulele.
Maybe people would [F#] have truly got the message.
[B] You may think my approach is simple minded and naive.
Like if you [E] wanted to change the world then [F#] why not quit and feed the hungry.
[B] But people for millennia have needed music to survive [E] and that is why I promised John.
[F#] that I will not feel [B] guilty.
So play your favorite Beatles song and make the subway fall [G#m] in love.
They're only [E] 19.
95.
That isn't [F#] lots of [B] money.
Play until the sun comes up and play until your fingers [E] suffer.
Play LCD sound system [F#] songs on your [B] ukulele.
Quit the bitching on your blog.
Stop pretending art is [E] hard.
Just slimming yourself to three [F#] chords.
Do not practice [B] daily.
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness with a piece of wood [E] and plastic.
Holy fuck it's so [F#] fantastic playing [B] ukulele.
Eat your homework with a fork and do your Fruit Loops in the [E] dark and bring your Etch-a-Sketch to work.
Your flask of black, your vibrator, your fear of heights, your Nikon [B] lens, your mom and dad,.
your disco stick, your soundtrack to Karate Kid, [E] your Ginson eyes, your rosary, [F#] your new Rebecca Black [B] CD,.
your favorite room, your Bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new [E] glass eye, your sousaphone, your breakfast tea,.
[F#] your naked great tapes, your thieving [B] tree, your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge [E] to cry.
Remember we're all gonna die.
.
So play [B] your ukulele.
.
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