Biography:
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer is an American vocalist, pianist and performance artist, best known for her work as one half of The Dresden Dolls. Born in 1976, she grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University. She attended Lexington High School, where she was very involved in the drama department. Amanda sometimes has Lexington High School students perform drama pieces at her shows. Before she was in the Dresden Dolls, she was in a band called "Amanda Palmer and the Void".
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Other songs:
- Bad Wine And Lemon Cake
- Bottomfeeder
- Creep
- Dear Old House
- Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth, So Help Your Black Ass
- Fake Plastic Trees
- Gaga Palmer Madonna
- Gaga,palmer,madonna
- Have To Drive
- High And Dry
- I Google You
- Idioteque
- In My Mind
- Leeds United
- Map Of Tasmania
- Melody Dean
- No Surprises
- Oasis
- Runs In The Family
- Smile Pictures Or It Didn't Happen
- Straight Hey Bitch
- Such Great Heights
- The Bed Song
- The Killing Type
- Trout Heart Replica
- Ukulele Anthem
- Vegemite The Black Death
- Want It Back
- A Formidable Marinade
- Ampersand
- Another Year
- Astronaut
- Australia
- Berlin
- Bigger On The Inside
- Blake Says
- Denial Thing
- Do It With A Rockstar
- Drowning In The Sound
- Friday
- From St Kilda To Fitzroy
- Grown Man Cry
- Guitar Hero
- Judy Blume
- Machete
- Makin Whoopee
- Massachusetts Avenue
- Mr Weinstein Will See You Now
- Olly Olly Oxen Free
- Smile Pictures Or It Didnt Happen
- The Living Room
- The Point Of It All
- Whats The Use Of Wondrin
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Intro
C x C7 x F x Fsus G7
Verse 1
C C7
sid vicious played a four-string fender bass guitar and couldn t sing
F Fsus7 G7
and everybody hated him except the ones who loved him
C C7
a ukulele has four strings but sid did did not play ukulele
F Fsus7 G7
he did smack and probably killed his girlfriend nancy spungen
C C7 F
if only sid had had a ukulele maybe he could have been happy
Fsus7 G7
maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end
C C7
he maybe would have not done all that heroin instead
F Fsus7 G7
he maybe would ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend
C C7
so play your favorite cover song especially if the words are wrong
F Fsus7 G7
cos even if your grades are bad it doesn t mean you re failing
C
do your homework with a fork
C7
and eat your fruit loops in the dark
F
and bring your etch-a-sketch to work
Fsus7 G7
and play your ukulele
F
ukulele small and forceful
G7
ukulele brave and peaceful
C F
you can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple
F G7
play your ukulele badly play your ukulele loudly
Gm
ukulele banish evil
Gm
ukulele save the people
Gm
ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple
Verse 2
C C7
lizzie borden took an axe and gave her father thirty whacks
F Fsus7 G7
then gave her mother thirty-one and left a tragic puzzle
C C7
if only they had given her an instrument those puritans
F
had lost the plot completely
Fsus7 G7
see what happens when you muzzle
C
a person s creativity
C7
and do not let them sing and scream
F Fsus7 G7
and nowadays it s worse cause kids have automatic handguns
C C7
it takes about an hour to learn how to play the ukulele
F Fsus7 G7
about same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb
G7
YOU DO THE MATH
C C7
so play your favorite cover song especially if the words are wrong
F Fsus7 G7
cos even if your grades are bad it doesn t mean you re failing
C
do your homework with a fork
C7
and eat your fruit loops in the dark
F
and bring your flask of jack to work
Fsus7 G7
and play your ukulele
F
ukulele thing of wonder
G7
ukulele wand of thunder
C F
you can play the ukulele too
F
in london and down under
F
play joan jett and play jacques brel
G7 Gm
and eminem and neutral milk hotel
Gm
the children crush the hatred
Gm
play your ukulele naked
Gm
and if anybody tries to steal your ukulele let them take it
Verse 3
C C7
imagine there s no music imagine there are no songs
F Fsus7 G7
imagine that john lennon wasn t shot in front of his apartment
C C7 F
imagine if john lennon had composed oeimagine on the ukulele
F Fsus7 G7
maybe folks would have more clearly got the message
C C7
you may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
F Fsus7 G7
like if you want to save the world then why not quit and feed the hungry
C C7
but people for millennia have needed music to survive
F Fsus7 G7
and that s why i ve promised john that i will not feel guilty
C
so play your favorite beatles song
C7
and make the subway fall in love
F Fsus7 G7
they re only 19 9 that s not a lot of money
C
play until the sun comes up
C7
and play until your fingers suffer
F Fsus7 G7
play LCD soundsystem songs on your ukulele
C
quit the bitching on your blog
C7
and stop pretending art is hard
F
just limit yourself to three chords
Fsus7 G7
and do not practice daily
C
you ll minimize some stranger s sadness
C7
with a piece of wood and plastic
F Fsus7 G7
holy fuck it s so fantastic playing ukulele
C
eat your homework with a fork
C7
and do your fruit loops in the dark
F
bring your etch-a-sketch to work
F
your flask of jack
F
your vibrator
F
your fear of heights
F
your nikon lens
C
your mom and dad
C
your disco stick
C7
your soundtrack from oekarate kid
F
your ginsu knives
F
your rosary
Fsus7 G7
your new rebecca black CD
C
your favorite room
C
your bowie knife
C7
your stuffed giraffe
C7
your new glass eye
F
your sousaphone
F
your breakfast tea
Fsus7
your nick drake tapes
G7
your giving tree
C
your ice cream truck
C
your missing wife
C7
your will to live
C7
your urge to cry
F
remember we re all going to die
F C
so PLAY YOUR UKULELE
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