Ukelele Anthem chords by Amanda Palmer

Chords with lyrics

Key:           C majorC

INTRO: C majorC C7C7 Fsus2Fsus2 G7sus-G7 (2x)

  C majorC                  C7C7
Sid vicious played a four-string fender bass guitar and couldn't sing
  Fsus2Fsus2        G7sus4G7sus4       G7G7
And everybody hated him except the ones who loved him
 C majorC               C7C7
A augmentedA ukulele has four strings, but Sid did not play ukulele
Fsus2Fsus2                G7sus4G7sus4      G7G7
He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

  C majorC           C7C7
If only sid had had a ukulele, maybe he would have been happy
Fsus2Fsus2          G7sus4G7sus4     G7G7
Maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end
  C majorC                 C7C7
He maybe would have not done all that heroin instead
     Fsus2Fsus2             G7sus4G7sus4       G7G7
He maybe would've sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend

  C majorC                 C7C7
So play your favourite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
   Fsus2Fsus2              G7sus4G7sus4       G7G7
'Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn't mean you're failing!
C majorC                C7C7
Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
  Fsus2Fsus2               G7sus4G7sus4     G7G7
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele

Fsus2Fsus2            G7G7
Ukulele small and fierceful, Ukulele brave and peaceful
C majorC            Fsus2Fsus2
You can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple
Fsus2Fsus2          G7G7
Play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly
Bb6Bb6
Ukulele banish evil ukulele save the people ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple

C majorC               C7C7
Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks
   Fsus2Fsus2            G7sus4G7sus4     G7G7
Then gave her father forty-one, and left a tragic puzzle
  C majorC             C7C7
If only they had given her an instrument, those puritans
  Fsus2Fsus2               G7sus4G7sus4      G7G7
Had lost the plot completely see what happens when you muzzle

  C majorC           C7C7
A augmentedA person's creativity and do not let them sing and scream
  Fsus2Fsus2                G7sus4G7sus4  G7G7
And nowadays it's worse 'cause kids have automatic handguns
  C majorC                C7C7
It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele
 Fsus2Fsus2              G7sus4G7sus4      G7G7
About the same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb… YOU DO THE MATH

  C majorC                 C7C7
So play your favourite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
   Fsus2Fsus2              G7sus4G7sus4       G7G7
'Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn't mean you're failing
C majorC                C7C7
Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
  Fsus2Fsus2                G7sus4G7sus4    G7G7
And bring your flask of Jack to work and play your ukulele

Fsus2Fsus2               G7G7
Ukulele, thing of wonder ukulele, ukulele wand of thunder
C majorC            Fsus2Fsus2
You can play the ukulele too, in London and down under
Fsus2Fsus2                   G7G7
Play Joan Jett, and play Jacques Brel and Eminem and neutral milk ho-
Bb6Bb6
tel the children crush the hatred play your ukulele naked and if anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it

C majorC             G7G7
Imagine there's no music, imagine there are no songs
    Fsus2Fsus2              G7sus4G7sus4    G7G7
Imagine that John Lennon wasn't shot in front of his apartment
   C majorC               C7C7
Now imagine if john lennon had composed "imagine" on the ukulele
Fsus2Fsus2         G7sus4G7sus4     G7G7
Maybe people would have truly got the message

  C majorC                C7C7
You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
      Fsus2Fsus2               G7sus4G7sus4       G7G7
Like if you want to want the world then why not quit and feed the hungry?
  C majorC             C7C7
But people for millennia have needed music to survive
  Fsus2Fsus2              G7sus4G7sus4       G7G7
And that's why i've promised john that i will not feel guilty

   C majorC                  C7C7
So play your favourite Beatles' song and make the subway fall in love
    Fsus2Fsus2      G7sus4G7sus4     G7G7
They're only $19.95, that isn't lots of money
C majorC                C7C7
Play until the sun comes up and play until your fingers suffer
Fsus2Fsus2          G7sus4G7sus4     G7G7
Play LCD sound system songs on your ukulele

C majorC                 C7C7
Quit the bitching on your blog and stop pretending art is hard
  Fsus2Fsus2               G7sus4G7sus4      G7G7
Just limit yourself to three chords and do not practice daily
    C majorC                C7C7
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness with a piece of wood and plastic
Fsus2Fsus2            G7sus4G7sus4   G7G7
Holy fuck! it's so fantastic, playing ukulele

C majorC                 C7C7
Eat your homework with a fork and do your fruit loops in the dark
  Fsus2Fsus2
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work, your flask of jack, your vibrator, your fear of heights, your Nikon lens…

   C majorC                  C7C7
Your mom and dad, your disco stick, your soundtrack from "karate kid"
   Fsus2Fsus2             G7sus4G7sus4    G7G7
Your ginsu knives, your rosary, your new Rebecca Black CD
   C majorC                   C7C7
Your favourite room, your bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new glass eye
   Fsus2Fsus2                G7sus4G7sus4         G7G7
Your sousaphone, your breakfast tea, your nick drake tapes, your giving tree
   C majorC                    C7C7
Your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge to cry
 Fsus2Fsus2                      C majorC