Joey Cape – The Ramones Are Dead (Ukulele)

       A                              F#
I can listen to the records from my younger years

            D          E              A        E
Pacify my bitter ears and revive the dead dinosaurs.

        A                             F#
Me and Jamo rode two buses round for Rockpile

                 D         E              A     Am
Sure to find a rarity and something to believe.

D                          F#                            D
But I can't listen to them now without mourning a small town

         E               A     Am
and the mom and pops I loved

D                    F#
Once were missionary men

D                           E
We age into obscurity with them

                  A      E
The Ramones are dead

            A                                   F#
You could judge a band by the cover flipping through the bins

                          D
Assured enough to take a spin

     E              A             E
The art and lyrics big enough to see and read

A
Pull the record from its sleeve

F#                   E
Spear the cut hole, arm and seed

D                    E             A          Am
Plunge the needle, shaking like a drug fiend

D                     F#
Now relevant again somehow

                   D
Reanimated sacred cow

        E                   A     Am
But it all seems different now

D                            F#
It's far too easy to find anything in demand

      D            E
I'll say it once again

                 A
The Ramones are dead.