Amanda Palmer (Lexington, 30 de Abril de 1976) é uma artista americana que despontou como vocalista e pianista da banda The Dresden Dolls. Desde então, também desenvolveu sua carreira solo, além de ser uma das "metades" da dupla Evelyn Evelyn, criada em parceria com Jason Webley.
Discografia: - Solo: High School Demotape (1997), 5 song Demotape (1998), Who Killed Amanda Palmer (2008), Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele (EP) (2010), Theatre Is Evil (2012)
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
Verse:
CC7 Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn’t sing
Fsus2G7sus4G7 And everybody hated him except the ones who loved him
CC7 A ukulele has four strings, but Sid did not play ukulele
Fsus2G7sus4G7 He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen
Verse:
CC7 If only Sid had had a ukulele, maybe he could have been happy
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end
CC7 He maybe would have not done all that heroin instead
Fsus2G7sus4G7 He maybe would’ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend
Chorus:
CC7 So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn’t mean you’re failing
CC7 Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2G7sus4G7 And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele
Bridge:
Fsus2G7 Ukulele small and forceful, ukulele, brave and peaceful
CFsus2 You can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple
Fsus2G7 Play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly
Bb6 Ukulele banish evil, ukulele save the people,
Ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple
Verse:
CC7 Lizzie borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Then gave her father forty-one, and left a tragic puzzle
CC7 If only they had given her an instrument, those puritans
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Had lost the plot completely, see what happens when you muzzle
Verse:
CC7 A person’s creativity and do not let them sing and scream
Fsus2G7sus4G7 And nowadays it’s worse ‘cause kids have automatic handguns
CC7 It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele
Fsus2G7sus4G7 About same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb you do the math-s-
Chorus:
CC7 So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn’t mean you’re failing
CC7 Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2G7sus4G7 And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele
Bridge:
Fsus2G7 Ukulele, thing of wonder, ukulele, wand of thunder
CFsus2 You can play the ukulele too in London and down under
Fsus2G7 Play Joan Jett, and play Jacques Brel and Eminem and Neutral Milk
Bb6 Tell the children crush the hatred, play your ukulele naked
If anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it
Verse:
CC7 Imagine there’s no music, imagine there are no songs
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Imagine that John Lennon wasn’t shot in front of his apartment
CC7Fsus2 Now imagine if John Lennon had composed “Imagine” for the ukulele
G7sus4G7 Maybe people would have truly got the message
Verse:
CC7 You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Like if you want to change the world then why not quit and feed the hungry
CC7 But people for millennia have needed music to survive
Fsus2G7sus4G7 And that’s why I’ve promised John that I will not feel guilty
Verse:
CC7 So play your favorite Beatles song and make the subway fall in love
Fsus2G7sus4G7 They’re only $19.95, that isn’t lots of money
CC7 Play until the sun comes up and play until your ?ngers suffer
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Play LCD Soundsystem songs on your ukulele
Verse:
CC7 Quit the bitching on your blog and stop pretending art is hard
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Just limit yourself to three chords and do not practice daily
CC7 You’ll minimize some stranger’s sadness with a piece of wood and plastic
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Holy xxxx it’s so fantastic, playing ukulele
Verse:
CC7 Eat your homework with a fork and do your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2 And bring your etch-a-sketch to work, your ?ask of jack, your vibrator
your fear of heights, your nikon lens
Verse:
CC7 Your mom and dad, your disco stick, your soundtrack from “Karate Kid”
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Your ginsu knives, your rosary, your new Rebecca Black CD CC7 Your favorite room, your bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new glass eye
Fsus2G7sus4G7 Your sousaphone, your breakfast tea, your Nick Drake tapes, your giving tree
CC7 Your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge to cry
Fsus2C Remember we’re all going to die so play your ukulele