Amanda desde niña aprendió a tocar el piano gracias a su madre. Creció en Lexington, Massachusetts. Ella asistió a la escuela secundaria de Lexington, donde estaba muy envuelta en el departamento de drama, y recibió su licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Wesleyan. Organizó actuaciones basadas en el trabajo de los Legendary Pink Dots. Y formó The Shadowbox Collective, consagrada a montar muestras teatrales, actos de teatro callejero.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Verse 1 CC7 sid vicious played a four-string fender bass guitar and couldn t sing FFsus7G7 and everybody hated him except the ones who loved him CC7 a ukulele has four strings but sid did did not play ukulele FFsus7G7 he did smack and probably killed his girlfriend nancy spungen
CC7F if only sid had had a ukulele maybe he could have been happy Fsus7G7 maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end CC7 he maybe would have not done all that heroin instead FFsus7G7 he maybe would ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend
CC7 so play your favorite cover song especially if the words are wrong FFsus7G7 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 Fsus7G7 and play your ukulele
F ukulele small and forceful G7 ukulele brave and peaceful CF you can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple FG7 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 CC7 lizzie borden took an axe and gave her father thirty whacks FFsus7G7 then gave her mother thirty-one and left a tragic puzzle CC7 if only they had given her an instrument those puritans F had lost the plot completely Fsus7G7 see what happens when you muzzle C a person s creativity C7 and do not let them sing and scream FFsus7G7 and nowadays it s worse cause kids have automatic handguns CC7 it takes about an hour to learn how to play the ukulele FFsus7G7 about same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb G7 YOU DO THE MATH
CC7 so play your favorite cover song especially if the words are wrong FFsus7G7 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 Fsus7G7 and play your ukulele
F ukulele thing of wonder G7 ukulele wand of thunder CF you can play the ukulele too F in london and down under F play joan jett and play jacques brel G7Gm 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 CC7 imagine there s no music imagine there are no songs FFsus7G7 imagine that john lennon wasn t shot in front of his apartment CC7F imagine if john lennon had composed oeimagine on the ukulele FFsus7G7 maybe folks would have more clearly got the message
CC7 you may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve FFsus7G7 like if you want to save the world then why not quit and feed the hungry CC7 but people for millennia have needed music to survive FFsus7G7 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 FFsus7G7 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 FFsus7G7 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 Fsus7G7 and do not practice daily C you ll minimize some stranger s sadness C7 with a piece of wood and plastic FFsus7G7 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 Fsus7G7 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 FC so PLAY YOUR UKULELE