Ukulele Tunes

Click this link to access a Google Folder of Tunes we use at our Jam Sessions.

Click this link to access the children's tunes we used for the CCCC sing-a-long on April 30, 2016.

I've included links for tunes that fit the ukulele nicely, use few chords.

First...a list of songs containing the I-V-vi-IV progression:

• Link to the Wikipedia page

Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte (and Beetle Juice)

• Link to the chords for the tune (C-G7)

• Consider adding some finger picking for the "Daylight come and me wanna go home" phrase

Woody Guthrie's - Hobo's Lullaby

• Link to YouTube of nine-year-old Magdalen Fossum playing the tune on uke and singing

• Link to Woody Guthrie's version

• Link to chords for the tune (C-F-G7)

Beatles - Love me do

• Link to YouTube of a uke group doing the tune

• Link to chords for the tune (C-G7)

Stand By Me

• Link to YouTube of a sweet version on ukulele

• Link to chords for the tune (C-G7-F-Am)

Ingrid Michaelson's - The Way I Am

• Link to YouTube

• Link to chords for the tune (A7, C, D, G, Em)

Paramore's - You Are the Only Exception

• Link to YouTube

• Link to chords for the tune (a ton)

The Lumineers - Hey Ho

• Link to YouTube

• Link to chords for the tune (C-F-G-Am)

Old Dan Tucker - Bruce Springsteen...Woody Guthrie

• Link to Bruce Springsteen singing this at a concert

• Link to chords for the tune (I-IV-V)

Shake it off - Taylor Swift - D chord!!!

• Link to YouTube of a tutorial for the song

• Link to a YouTube of Walk Off the Earth performing the song 

• Link to chords for the tune - C, G, Am, D (four chords)

• Link to chords for the tune - C, G, Am (three chords)

Break Away - Kelly Clarkson

• Link to chords for the tune - Am, C, D, F, G

We Are Young by FUN

• Link to chords for the tune - C, A, F, Dm, G

Country Roads, Take Me Home - John Denver

• Link to the chords for the tune - G, Em, D, C, G

• Link to the tutorial for the tune (forgive his singing, please!)

Oye Como Va - Santana

• Link to instructions for the tune (ONLY 2 chords - Am and D)

  • Sound clips at various speeds

  • PDFs of melody and chords