Biografía:
Andrew Bird es un cantautor de indie rock y neoswing nacido el 11 de julio de 1973 en Illinois, Estados Unidos. Alcanzó algún reconocimiento a mediados de los noventa como violista auxiliar de los Squirrel Nut Zippers, una agrupación de jazz que reinterpretaba el sonido clásico del swing de la década del 30. En 1996 lanzó su álbum debut titulado Music of hair que mezclaba estilos como el blues, el jazz y el folk. Despúes lideró la agrupación
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- Are You Serious
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- Dyin' Bedmaker
- Fatal Shore
- Gotholympians
- Lull
- Manifest
- Masters Warm
- Measuring Cups
- Meet Me Here At Dawn
- Oh No
- Orpheo Looks Back
- Pulaski
- Pulaski At Night
- Something Biblical
- Spare Ohs
- Tea And Thorazine
- Three White Horses
- Why?
- Heretics
- 1111
- A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left
- Action Adventure
- Armchairs
- Banking On A Myth
- Bloodless
- Candy Shop
- Case In Point
- Cathedral In The Dell
- Chemical Switches
- Dark Matter
- Darkmatter
- Dear Old Greenland
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- Why
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Measuring Cups
As recorded by Andrew Bird on the album The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Transcribed by Cameron Brydon ([email protected])
Watch Andrew Bird live on www.fabchannel.com or on www.andrewbird.net, or go to
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php to download live audio.
Standard Tuning
Intro Chords
G - D - A - Em (X2)
Verse 1
G D A Em G
Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
D A Em G
Come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain
D E
We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a name
G D A Em G
Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
D A Em G
Can't have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same
D E
Liquid or gas no more than the glass will contain
Chorus
G D
When you talk about the hand of glory
A Em
A tale that's rather grim and gory
G D E
Is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed?
G D E
When the tales of brothers Grimm and Gory have been outlawed
Intro Chords (X2)
G - D - E
Verse 2
G D A
I think they're gonna make you start over
Em G
You don't want to start over
D A
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Em G
Be the good little soldier
D
Take your places now
E
'Cause we're all predisposed
G D A Em G
Measuring cups, play a new game
D A Em G
Front of the class, measure your brain
D E
Give you a complex and we'll give it a name
G D
When you talk about the hand of glory
A Em
A tale that's rather grim and gory
G D E
Is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed?
G D E
When the tales of brothers Grimm and Gory have been outlawed
G D A
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Em
Be the good little soldier
G D
It's no different when your older
E
You're predisposed
G Bbm
That's all for questions now
D
The case is closed!
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
As recorded by Andrew Bird on the album The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Transcribed by Cameron Brydon ([email protected])
Watch Andrew Bird live on www.fabchannel.com or on www.andrewbird.net, or go to
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php to download live audio.
Standard Tuning
Intro Chords
G - D - A - Em (X2)
Verse 1
G D A Em G
Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
D A Em G
Come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain
D E
We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a name
G D A Em G
Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
D A Em G
Can't have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same
D E
Liquid or gas no more than the glass will contain
Chorus
G D
When you talk about the hand of glory
A Em
A tale that's rather grim and gory
G D E
Is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed?
G D E
When the tales of brothers Grimm and Gory have been outlawed
Intro Chords (X2)
G - D - E
Verse 2
G D A
I think they're gonna make you start over
Em G
You don't want to start over
D A
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Em G
Be the good little soldier
D
Take your places now
E
'Cause we're all predisposed
G D A Em G
Measuring cups, play a new game
D A Em G
Front of the class, measure your brain
D E
Give you a complex and we'll give it a name
G D
When you talk about the hand of glory
A Em
A tale that's rather grim and gory
G D E
Is it just another children's story that's been de-clawed?
G D E
When the tales of brothers Grimm and Gory have been outlawed
G D A
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Em
Be the good little soldier
G D
It's no different when your older
E
You're predisposed
G Bbm
That's all for questions now
D
The case is closed!
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Andrew Lippa
Andrew Lloyd Web (...)
Andrew Mcmahon
Andrew Osenga
Andrew Peterson