Ukulele Anthem Ukulele chords by Amanda Palmer

Ukulele Anthem
Amanda Palmer

-INTRO-
C C7 Fsus2 G7sus4 G7 x2

-VERSE 1-
C                                       C7
Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn?t sing
Fsus2                   G7sus4              G7
And everybody hated him except the ones who loved him
C                               C7
A ukulele has four strings, but Sid did not play ukulele
Fsus2                     G7sus4     G7
He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

-VERSE 2-
C                              C7
If only Sid had had a ukulele, maybe he could have been happy
Fsus2                   G7sus4          G7
Maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end
C                                     C7
He maybe would have not done all that heroin instead
Fsus2                             G7sus4                G7
He maybe would?ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend

-CHORUS-
C                                 C7
So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
Fsus2                       G7sus4               G7
Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn?t mean you're failing
C                                C7
Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2                           G7sus4        G7
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele

-BRIDGE-
Fsus2                       G7
Ukulele small and forceful, ukulele, brave and peaceful
C                        Fsus2
You can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple
Fsus2                    G7
Play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly
A#6
Ukulele banish evil, ukulele save the people,
A#6
Ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple

-VERSE 3-
C                          C7
Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks
Fsus2                           G7sus4            G7
Then gave her father forty-one, and left a tragic puzzle
C                                         C7
If only they had given her an instrument, those puritans
Fsus2                         G7sus4                    G7
Had lost the plot completely, see what happens when you muzzle






-VERSE 4-
C                          C7
A person?s creativity and do not let them sing and scream
Fsus2                          G7sus4              G7
And nowadays it's worse ?cause kids have automatic handguns
C                                       C7
It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele
Fsus2                          G7sus4           G7
About same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb (you do the math!)

-CHORUS-
C                                 C7
So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
Fsus2                       G7sus4               G7
Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn?t mean you're failing
C                                C7
Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2                           G7sus4        G7
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele

-BRIDGE-
Fsus2                     G7
Ukulele, thing of wonder, ukulele, wand of thunder
C                            Fsus2
You can play the ukulele too in London and down under
Fsus2                                 G7
Play Joan Jett, and play Jacques Brel and Eminem and Neutral Milk Ho-
A#6
Tell the children crush the hatred, play your ukulele naked
A#6
If anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it

-VERSE 5-
C                         C7
Imagine there?s no music, imagine there are no songs
Fsus2                           G7sus4               G7
Imagine that John Lennon wasn?t shot in front of his apartment
C                              C7                         Fsus2
Now imagine if John Lennon had composed ?Imagine? for the ukulele
Fsus2                   G7sus4        G7
Maybe people would have truly got the message

-VERSE 6-
C                                   C7
You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
Fsus2                                     G7sus4                    G7
Like if you want to change the world then why not quit and feed the hungry
C                             C7
But people for millennia have needed music to survive
Fsus2                                  G7sus4          G7
And that?s why I've promised John that I will not feel guilty

-VERSE 7-
C                                     C7
So play your favorite Beatles song and make the subway fall in love
Fsus2                     G7sus4        G7
They're only $19.95, that isn?t lots of money
C                               C7
Play until the sun comes up and play until your fingers suffer
Fsus2                G7sus4        G7
Play LCD Soundsystem songs on your ukulele


-VERSE 8-
C                                  C7
Quit the bitching on your blog and stop pretending art is hard
Fsus2                                   G7sus4          G7
Just limit yourself to three chords and do not practice daily

C                                            C7
You'll minimize some stranger?s sadness with a piece of wood and plastic
Fsus2                        G7sus4  G7
Holy fuck it's so fantastic, playing ukulele

-VERSE 9-
C                                 C7
Eat your homework with a fork and do your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work, your flask of jack, your vibrator
Fsus2
your fear of heights, your Nikon lens

-VERSE 10-
C                                       C7
Your mom and dad, your disco stick, your soundtrack from ?Karate Kid?
Fsus2                                G7sus4      G7
Your ginsu knives, your rosary, your new Rebecca Black CD
C                                     C7
Your favorite room, your bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new glass eye
Fsus2                                                       G7sus4      G7
Your sousaphone, your breakfast tea, your Nick Drake tapes, your giving tree
C                                        C7
Your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge to cry
Fsus2                                            C
Remember we're all going to die! So play your ukulele