Seattle Grunge Rock Blues ukulele

Seattle Grunge Rock Blues

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Hey, hey, my, my  
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Rock n' roll will never die  
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Just hang your hair down in your eyes  
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You'll make a million dollars  
 
  
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Well, I was in this band goin' nowhere fast  
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We sent out demos but everybody passed  
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So one day we finally took the plunge  
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Moved out to Seattle to play some grunge  
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Washington state that is...  
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Space needle, Eddie Vedder   
  
Mudhoney  
 
  
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Now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts  
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We turn our amps up until it hurts  
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We've got bad attitudes and what's more  
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When we play we stare straight down at the floor  
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Woweee! Pretty scary  
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How pensive  
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How totally alternative  
 
  
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Now to fit in on the Seattle scene  
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You've got to do something they ain't never seen  
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So thinkin' up a gimmick one day  
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We decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note  
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Under any circumstances  
 
Silence...  
 
Music's original alternative  
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Root's grunge  
 
  
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Well we spread the word through the underground  
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That we were the hottest new thing in town  
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The record guy came out to see us one day  
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And just like always we didn't play  
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It knocked him out  
 
  
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He said he loved our work  
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He said he loved our work, but he wasn't sure if he could  
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Sell a record with nothing on it  
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I said tell 'em we're from Seattle  
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He advanced us two and half million dollars  
 
  
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Hey, hey, my, my  
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Rock n' roll will never die  
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Hang your hair down in your eyes  
        G        D       G 
You'll make a million dollars  
 
 
 
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Well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough  
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'Cause we just filmed ourselves smashing stuff  
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It's kind of weird 'cause there was no music  
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But MTV said they'd love to use it  
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The kids went wild, the kids went nuts  
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Rolling Stone gave us a five star review  
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Said we played with guts  
 
  
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We're scoring chicks, taking drugs  
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Then we got asked to play MTV Unplugged  
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You should have seen it  
 
  
 
We went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of 
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the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place  
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Then we smashed our shit  
 
  
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Well we blew 'em away at the Grammys show  
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By refusing to play and refusing to go  
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And then just when we thought fame would last forever  
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Along come this band that wasn't even together  
 
Now that's alternative  
 
Now that's alternative to alternative  
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I feel stupid...and contagious  
 
  
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Well our band got dropped and that ain't funny  
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'Cause we're all hooked on drugs but we're outta money  
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So the other day I called up the band  
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I said boys I've taken all I can  
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Shave off your goatees, pack the van  
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We're going back to Athens...   
 
 

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