Measuring Cups Chords & Lyrics by Andrew Bird
Measuring Cups
guitar chords lyrics
Andrew Bird - Measuring Cups
Standard Tuning
Having navigated your way through this entire land witch is ultimateguitar to the
very outskirts where gems like Andrew Bird lie, I'm sure I don't need to tell you
what a great song this is. However, I feel the need to leave an obligatory note
with these chords stating that fact: "This is a sensational song, it's like
someone took that warm apple pie your mother used to make, filled it with rainbows
and somehow condensed the result into audible pleasure!"
Sorry to delay your playing of this song to state the obvious, and sorry once
again for delaying it further by acknowledging the delay. And without further
delay... here's that song!
(Well at least here's a series of letters of numbers that reflect particular
wavelengths of light that travel to your eyes and are neurologically transmitted
to you brain which interprets the meaning and then resultantly sends out potential
differences along synapses to the relevant muscles in order for the right
frequencies to be produced by both instruments and voice and so the air will
vibrate at these frequencies and travel to our ears oscillating the thin membrane
of the eardrum sending signals back to our brain which we interpret as the
song...) I'm sorry, i'm so highfalutin... Here it is.
(Upbeat notes - straight to G)
e|-------
b|-------
g|-------
d|-------
a|-------
E|-0--2--
Intro
G - D - A - Bm (X2)
G D A Bm
Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
G D A Bm
Come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain
G D E
We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a name
[Upbeat notes]
G D A Bm
Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game
G D A Bm
Can't have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same
G D E
Liquid or gas no more than the glass will contain
G D
When you talk about the hand of glory
A Bm
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 - Bm (X2)
G - D - E
G D A
I think they're gonna make you start over
Bm G
You don't want to start over
D A
Put your backpack on your shoulder
Bm G
Be the good little soldier
D
Take your places now
E
'Cause we're all predisposed
G D A Bm
measuring cups play a new game
G D A Bm
front of the class measure your brain
G D E
We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a name
G D
When you talk about the hand of glory
A Bm
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
So put your backpack on your shoulder
Bm
Be the good little soldier
G D
It's no different when your older
E
You're predisposed
G Gm
That's all for questions now
D
The case is closed!
Done! Case closed, enjoy!
(Sorry, I had the chords in the right spots to my ear but the formatting moves
them all around when you submit it, just feel it, I'm sure as a fellow Bird fan you'll do fine.)
