Sunday, May 26, 2013

Get Lucky for ukulele. Get L-uke-y?

Chords are Bm (4222), D (2220), F#m (2120) and E (4442), I guess easier would be Am, C, Em (0402) and D.

I like this uke version, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3KqxY0xzhc though I don't try and sing the hook in that octave!

I also slide the Bm up from Bbm to give it a funky feel.

Strum is just a feeling rather than anything easy to pin down, just feel the funk y'all!

                                  Bm        D
Like the legend of the phoenix
                     F#m          E       (repeat all through the song)
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning
The force from the beginning

[Hook]
We've come too far
To give up who we are
So let's raise the bar
And our cups to the stars
She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
She's up all night for good fun
I'm up all night to get lucky
We're up all night 'til the sun
We're up all night to get some
We're up all night for good fun
We're up all night to get lucky (x5)

The present has no ribbon
Your gift keeps on giving
What is this I'm feeling?
If you want to leave, I'm wit' it

[Hook]

[Bridge: Daft Punk]
We’re up all night to get (x4)
We’re up all night to get back together
We’re up all night (let’s get back together!)
We’re up all night to get funky
We’re up all night to get lucky
We’re up all night to get lucky (x8)

[Hook]

[Outro x4]
We're up all night to get lucky

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Wayfaring Stranger

I love the versions by Ed Sheeran, Dolly Parton,  Emmylou Harris and Johnny Cash.
Though the off-tune versions by Bill Monroe (few more versions in this playlist) and Jack White have a strange beauty too.

I am a (Am) poor way- (E7) faring (Am) stranger
While travelling (Dm) through this world of (E7) woe
There's no (Am) sick- (E7) ness no toil or (Am) danger
In that bright (Dm) wo- (E7) rld to which I (Am) go
I'm going (F) there (G) to meet my (C) father
I'm going (F) there (G) no more to (C) ro- (E7) am
I’m only (Am) go- (E7) ing over (Am) Jordan
I’m only (Dm) go- (E7) ing over (Am) home (E7)

I know dark (Am) clouds will (E7) gather a- (Am) round me
I know my (Dm) path is rough and (E7) steep
But golden (Am) fields lie (E7) there be- (Am) fore me
Where weary (Dm) eyes no (E7) more shall (Am) weep
I'm going (F) there (G) to see my (C) mother
She said she'd (F) meet me (G) when I (C) come (E7)
I’m only (Am) go- (E7) ing over (Am) Jordan
I’m only (Dm) go- (E7) ing over (Am) home (E7)

I'll soon be (Am) free from (E7) every (Am) trial
This form will (Dm) rest beneath the (E7) sod
I'll drop the (Am) cross of (E7) self de- (Am) nial,
And enter (Dm) in my (E7) home with (Am) God.
I'm going (F) there to (G) see my (C) Saviour
Who shed for (F) me His (G) precious (C) blood (E7)
I’m only (Am) go- (E7) ing over (Am) Jordan
I’m only (Dm) go- (E7) ing over (Am) home (E7)

I'm going to (Am) wear the (E7) crown of (Am) glory
When I get (Dm) home to that bright (E7) land
I'm going to (Am) shout salvation's (Am) story
In concert (Dm) with that (E7) bloodwashed (Am) band
I'm going (F) there (G) to meet my (C) Saviour
To sing His (F) praises (G) for ever (C) more (E7)
I’m only (Am) go- (E7) ing over (Am) Jordan
I’m only (Dm) go- (E7) ing over (Am) home (E7)

Friday, April 26, 2013

Hula Girl

A fun little song, and not too hard, I think. This one is in the key of F, like mine below.
There's a few versions in G as well. That one has the chords in G in the description.
Love this one with Robert Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders.

F D7 G7 C7 F

F                          G7
All the time, In the tropical clime, where they do the hula hula dance
C7     F                    Bb                F    
I fell in love, With a chocolate dove while learning that funny funny dance
        F  G7
This poor little kid, Why, she never did a bit of loving before
       G7                                    F        G7             C7    F
So I made up my mind, That I struck a find,  she's the only girl I'd dare adore

[CHORUS]

C7                                                    F
I love a pretty little Honolulu, hula hula girl (she's the candy kid to wriggle)
C7
Hula girl, (she will surely make you giggle)
F
Hula girl, (with her naughty little wiggle)
C7 F
Some day, I'm goin' to try to make this hula hula girlie mine, this girlie mine
             D7           G7        F             C7     F              
'Cause all the while I'm dreaming of her my Honolulu hula girl

C7 F C7 F C7 F D7 G7  F C7 F

F         G7
Out at the beach, with your dear little peach where the waves are rolling in so high
C7         F                      Bb                       F
Holding her hand, while you sit on the sand, promise you'll win her heart or die
F G7
You start in to tease, you give her a squeeze her heart is all in a whirl
G7       F                             G7                    C7    F
If you get in a pinch, go to, it's a cinch! When spooning with a hula girl

[CHORUS]

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