Amanda Palmer - Ukulele Anthem

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1Verse:
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2Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn’t sing
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3And everybody hated him except the ones who loved him
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A12 ukulele has four strings, but Sid did not play ukulele
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4He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen
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6Verse:
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7If only Sid had had a ukulele, maybe he could have been happy
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8Maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end
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9He maybe would have not done all that heroin instead
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10He maybe would’ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend
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12Chorus:
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13So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
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14Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn’t mean you’re failing
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15Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
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16And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele
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18Bridge:
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19Ukulele small and forceful, ukulele, brave and peaceful
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20You can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple
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21Play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly
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22Ukulele banish evil, ukulele save the people,
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24Ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple
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26Verse:
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27Lizzie borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks
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28Then gave her father forty-one, and left a tragic puzzle
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29If only they had given her an instrument, those puritans
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30Had lost the plot completely, see what happens when you muzzle
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32Verse:
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A55 person’s creativity and do not let them sing and scream
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33And nowadays it’s worse ‘cause kids have automatic handguns
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34It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele
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35G#out same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb you do the math-s-
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37Chorus:
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38So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
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39Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn’t mean you’re failing
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40Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
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41And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele
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43Bridge:
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44Ukulele, thing of wonder, ukulele, wand of thunder
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45You can play the ukulele too in London and down under
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46Play Joan Jett, and play Jacques Brel and Eminem and Neutral Milk
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47Tell the children crush the hatred, play your ukulele naked
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49If anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it
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51Verse:
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52Imagine there’s no music, imagine there are no songs
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53Imagine that John Lennon wasn’t shot in front of his apartment
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54Now imagine if John Lennon had composed “Imagine” for the ukulele
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55Maybe people would have truly got the message
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57Verse:
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58You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
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59Like if you want to change the world then why not quit and feed the hungry
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60But people for millennia have needed music to survive
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61And that’s why I’ve promised John that I will not feel guilty
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63Verse:
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64So play your favorite Beatles song and make the subway fall in love
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65They’re only $19.95, that isn’t lots of money
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66Play until the sun comes up and play until your fingers suffer
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Play LCD111 Soundsystem songs on your ukulele
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68Verse:
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69Quit the bitching on your blog and stop pretending art is hard
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70Just limit yourself to three chords and do not practice daily
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71You’ll minimize some stranger’s sadness with a piece of wood and plastic
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72Holy xxxx it’s so fantastic, playing ukulele
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74Verse:
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75Eat your homework with a fork and do your fruit loops in the dark
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76And bring your etch-a-sketch to work, your flask of jack, your vibrator
77your fear of heights, your nikon lens
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79Verse:
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80Your mom and dad, your disco stick, your soundtrack from “Karate Kid”
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Your ginsu knives, your rosary, your new Rebecca Black CD130
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81Your favorite room, your bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new glass eye
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82Your sousaphone, your breakfast tea, your Nick Drake tapes, your giving tree
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83Your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge to cry
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84Remember we’re all going to die so play your ukulele
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