Monday, December 3, 2012

Dumb Ways To Die

Here's some good ukulele chords for Dumb Ways To Die. A very successful viral campaign to promote safety around trains in Melbourne. The video is cute too :-)


C is (0003) Csus4 is just adding the first fret on the third string (0013).

                    C                              Csus4
Verse strum: DOWN DOWN up-down-up-down-up

Chorus strum: up-down-up SLAP

C Csus4, C Csus4

      C Csus4    C Csus4
Set fire to your hair
            C            Csus4   C Csus4
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
      C Csus4           C       Csus4
Eat medicine that’s out of date
               C        Csus4    C        Csus4
Use your private parts as piranha bait

CHORUS

C       Em         Am   C
Dumb ways to die
     F                 D7        G    G7
So many dumb ways to die
C        Em        Am  C
Dumb ways to di-i-i-ie
F                      G          C
So many dumb ways to die

Get your toast out with a fork
Do your own electrical work
Teach yourself how to fly
Eat a two week old unrefrigerated pie

CHORUS

Invite a psycho-killer inside
Scratch a drug dealer’s brand new ride
Take your helmet off in outer space
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place

CHORUS

Keep a rattlesnake as a pet
Sell both your kidneys on the internet
Eat a tube of superglue
STOP “I wonder what’s this red button do?”

CHORUS  - PAUSE BEFORE SINGING LAST LINE

SINGLE STRUM ON EACH CHORD

Am         G      C                   Em       F          G
Dress up like a moose during hunting season
Am         G         C            Em          F
Disturb a nest of wasps for no good reason

STRUM NORMALLY

G                                Am                      
Stand on the edge of a train station platform
Em                                              Am
Drive around the boom gates at a level crossing
G                               Am                              G
Run across the tracks between the platforms
F                                               G
They may not rhyme but they’re quite possibly

C       Em         Am   C
Dumbest ways to die
C       Em         Am   C
Dumbest ways to die
C        Em            Am       C
Dumbest ways to di-i-i-ie
F                    
So many dumb
     G                             C
So many dumb ways to diiiiiieeee

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