The River - with harmonica intro

If you're new to harmonicas the basic, cheap harmonica is all you need for this. A D harmonica and a diatonic one, which most are anyway, as opposed to the chromatic. The diatonic is your typical blues-harp used by Bob Dylan etc. The chromatic has a button on the side that lets you add half-notes to the scale. More for Jazz. Stevie Wonder uses one of these. You'll not be needing that.  This is in The Boss's original key.

I just read a great article about him here.

The way to read this is d = draw in breath, b = blow. 4 means the fourth hole from the left, which is the low notes end. Bend all the 4's. To learn how bend a note, it's just trial and error, but there are videos on youtube for this.



Em         G        D       C    
4d    5b  5d  6d 6b 5d 4d,
Em    G       C
6d 6b 5d 6b 4d


  Em                                 G                      D                             C
I come from down in the valley   Where mister, when you're young
       Em                       G  C                        G
They bring you up to do like your daddy done
  C                                                                   G                D    Em
Me and Mary we met in high school  When she was just seventeen
         Am                                G                                              C
We'd drive out of this valley down to where the fields were green

               Em               C             D                           G
We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive
      Em                C             D   C
Oh down to the river we’d ride

       Em                G                     D                               C
Then I got Mary pregnant  And man, that was all she wrote
       Em                G                      C                                       G
And for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
       C                                                            G              D       Em
We went down to the courthouse  And the judge put it all to rest
    Am
No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle
     G                                 C
No flowers, no wedding dress

                                     Em          C
That night we went down to the river
        D                           G
And into the river we'd dive
       Em              C                   D   C
Oh down to the river we did ride

{Harmonica}
Em         G        D       C  
4d    5b  5d  6d 6b 5d 4d,
Em    G       C
6d 6b 5d 6b 4d   (Just the same as intro, but not 100% accurate, if I work it out, I'll put it here)

          Em                     G                        D               C
I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
      Em                              G                      C                    G
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
    C
Now all them things that seemed so important
              G                 D            Em
Well mister they vanished right into the air
           Am                                                     G                           C
Now I just act like I don't remember   Mary acts like she don't care

         Em                                      G                           D
But I remember us riding in my brother's car   Her body tan and wet down at
     C               Em                                       G
the reservoir    At night on them banks I'd lie awake
                       C                      G
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
           C
Now those memories come back to haunt me
           G           D      Em
They haunt me like a curse
       Am                                                    G                     C
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true    Or is it something worse

                         Em             C                         D                        G
That sends me down to the river   Though I know the river is dry
                         Em              C       D   C
That sends me down to the river tonight
 Em          C        D       G
Down to the river my baby and I
    Em          C                  D  C
Oh down to the river we ride     Ooh..
Em  C  D  G       Em  C

AC/DC Back In Black for ukulele

With Malcolm young of AC/DC potentially no longer able to play in the band, it may be the end of the road for the favourite group of teenage rockers everywhere.

Back in Black is one of my favourites. Rock on Malcolm, rock on.

[Opening riff:
These chords: A G D
Then hammer off 3rd fret on A, 3rd on E 2nd on C.

Then A G D
Then play open E, 1st fret on C, then 2nd, 3rd 4th.

Keep that up through verse.]

Back in black
I hit the sack
It's been too long I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm, let loose
From the noose
That's kept me hanging around
I keep looking at the sky
'Cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse 'cause I'll never die
I got nine lives
Cats eyes
Usin' every one of them and running wild

[Play these chords over next bit.]

D  A  E  D-E, D  A  E  D-E, C  G  D  C-D, C  G  D  C-D
    D  A  E  D-E, D  A  E  D-E, C  G G G
   
'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
(Well) I'm back in black
Yes, I'm back in black

Back in the back
Of a Cadillac
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
Yes, I'm in a bang
With a gang
They've got to catch me if they want me to hang
Cause I'm back on the track
And I'm beating the flack
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now
I'm just makin' my play
Don't try to push your luck, just get out of my way

'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
(Well) I'm back in black
Yes, I'm back in black
Well, I'm back, Yes I'm back
Well, I'm back, Yes I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Hooo yeah
Ohh yeah
Yes I am
Oooh yeah, yeah Oh yeah
Back in now
Well I'm back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back
Back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Outta sight

The Ring of the Lords

The Lord of the Rings, but from the Orcs point of view...


Dm
We were strong, we were free,
we had skills, liberty,
F                           Am
we had no lords, no need to work,
Dm
Night and day.

Dm
Our orclings went to schools
Learned knowledge,
Not just rules,
          F
We could hope,
        Am
And holiday,
     G
And live.

A7 (0100 and 0200 and 0110)
Then the evil elves came.
They took our power,
made us slaves
to their beauty and their art,
              0110 A7
but just for them.

Dm
Now we were ignorant and in debt,
trapped and yet,
    F            Am
to them we were nothing.
                    Dm
They called us beasts.

A7 0200 0100
Free to work, In ignorance,
Free to smoke and drink and dance,
just as long as we know our place, under them.

Dm
Then the revolution came,
lead by one, who gave us hope,
F               Am
Sauron shone like the sun,
           Dm
We fought back!

Dm
We build machines,
Learned to craft,
We had music, we had art
               F
These were no longer,
           Am           Dm
Just controlled by the elves.

A7
But one dressed in white,
with a staff, some called  Gandalf,
he sent us back,
to the dark ages,
again.

Dm
Now we're trapped, no longer free,
We've no power or industry,
F                           Am
Pretty elves look down on us,
Dm
Every day.

A7
No Elf insurance,
On a back to Orc scheme,
I have drug hobbit,
One of the squeezed middle Earth, middle class.

Dm
But we still dance, in a ring
to remember, one precious thing,
          F
that one day,
          Am
we'll be free,
Dm
of the lords.

(Sing twice)