Chords
Intro -x2-: C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn’t sing
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
And everybody hated him except the ones who loved him
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
A
A chord
ukulele has four strings, but Sid did not play ukulele
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
If only Sid had had a ukulele, maybe he could have been happy
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
He maybe would have not done all that heroin instead
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
He maybe would’ve sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend
Chorus:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn’t mean you’re failing
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele
Bridge:
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7
G7 chord
Ukulele small and forceful, ukulele, brave and peaceful
C
C chord
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
You can play the ukulele too it is painfully simple
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7
G7 chord
Play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly
Bb6
Bb6 chord
Ukulele banish evil, ukulele save the people,
Ukulele gleaming golden on the top of every steeple
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Lizzie borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Then gave her father forty-one, and left a tragic puzzle
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
If only they had given her an instrument, those puritans
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Had lost the plot completely, see what happens when you muzzle
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
A
A chord
person’s creativity and do not let them sing and scream
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
And nowadays it’s worse ‘cause kids have automatic handguns
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
About same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb you do the math-s-
Chorus:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Cos even if your grades are bad, it doesn’t mean you’re failing
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Do your homework with a fork and eat your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work and play your ukulele
Bridge:
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7
G7 chord
Ukulele, thing of wonder, ukulele, wand of thunder
C
C chord
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
You can play the ukulele too in London and down under
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7
G7 chord
Play Joan Jett, and play Jacques Brel and Eminem and Neutral Milk
Bb6
Bb6 chord
Tell the children crush the hatred, play your ukulele naked
If anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Imagine there’s no music, imagine there are no songs
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Imagine that John Lennon wasn’t shot in front of his apartment
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
Now imagine if John Lennon had composed “Imagine” for the ukulele
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Maybe people would have truly got the message
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Like if you want to change the world then why not quit and feed the hungry
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
But people for millennia have needed music to survive
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
And that’s why I’ve promised John that I will not feel guilty
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
So play your favorite Beatles song and make the subway fall in love
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
They’re only $19.95, that isn’t lots of money
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Play until the sun comes up and play until your fingers suffer
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Play LCD
D chord
Soundsystem songs on your ukulele
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Quit the bitching on your blog and stop pretending art is hard
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Just limit yourself to three chords and do not practice daily
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
You’ll minimize some stranger’s sadness with a piece of wood and plastic
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Holy xxxx it’s so fantastic, playing ukulele
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Eat your homework with a fork and do your fruit loops in the dark
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
And bring your etch-a-sketch to work, your flask of jack, your vibrator
your fear of heights, your nikon lens
Verse:
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Your mom and dad, your disco stick, your soundtrack from “Karate Kid”
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Your ginsu knives, your rosary, your new Rebecca Black CD
D chord
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Your favorite room, your bowie knife, your stuffed giraffe, your new glass eye
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
G7sus4
G7sus4 chord
G7
G7 chord
Your sousaphone, your breakfast tea, your Nick Drake tapes, your giving tree
C
C chord
C7
C7 chord
Your ice cream truck, your missing wife, your will to live, your urge to cry
Fsus2
Fsus2 chord
C
C chord
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Published: 1 Dec, 2017
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