Suggestions for More Songs
I am looking at releasing the new songbook in January 2016 – just needing a few more songs to round it off. Below I list the songs I have so far – but would love to get ideas for a few more. Help anyone ?
500 Miles – PP and M
A Hard Days Night (D)
A Little Bitty Tear
A Place in the Sun
All Shook Up
Always
And I Love Her (Fm)
Back For Good
Beards, Time Travel and Catching Salmon (New Version)
Carey (I had to)
Chapel of Love
CoalHole Cavalry
Come Away With Me
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Dance Me To The End of Love (Cm)
Danny Boy (A)
Desperado (G)
Don’t Lose Your Love (A,Bb,G)
Drift Away
Everything I Own
Fields of Athenry
Four Strong Winds (C)
Getting to Know You
Gold
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Green Tambourine
Heart of Glass
Hedgehog Poo
How Do You Do It
I Walk the Line (D)
It’s Too Late
J. Edgar
Karma Chameleon (Bb)
Lava
Let Me Be There
Liverpool Lou
Liverpool Lullaby
Livin’ on a Prayer
Love Hearts (Sugar Lips)
Luicille (A) – Ken’s request
Lyin’ Eyes
Match.com Advert Song
Mercedes Benz
Money For Nothing
Nursery Rhymes – a few basic nursery rhymes
Pearl’s a Singer
People are Strange
Plastic Jesus
Somewhere in the Middle (E, G)
Song Sung Blue
SOS
Spoof of Jolene – Too Lean
Sporting Life Blues
Summer Wine
Technicolor Way
The Bird Song
The Mighty Quinn
The Wyre Waterside
This Little Light of Mine
Tonight You Belong to Me
Twilight
Wait For the Wagon
Walk on By
Welcome to My Morning (Farewell Andromeda)
What’ll I Do
When the Red Red Robin (Dm)
Whiskey on a Sunday (C) – original
Whiskey on a Sunday (G)
Wild Side of Life
Yellow
Yellow Bird (unchanged Ukulele Jim version)
You Got It (in C and G)
You’re So Square
You’re The One That I Want
You’ve Got The Love
Hi Jim,
How about “Strolling” by Flanagan and Alan? I have a version I can send you if you like. You can modify it to suit your book.
Regards.
Colin
I would really appreciate that Colin – jim at ozbcoz. com
ta
Here are a couple of suggestions and links where I have found them. These are a couple that our Ukulele Group in Sisters, Oregon like:
Ragtime Cowboy Joe: (on San Jose Ukulele Club site) http://sanjoseukeclub.org/song_book.html
Puka Puka Pants-You can listen to this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgkwHZZ00sk&spfreload=10 or here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im3bt4sj5B0
I have a scanned version of this that I can send you that is slightly better than the one on the San Jose Ukulele Club site.
Jim
great Jim – would love you to send me the pdf and I reckon both are good suggestions! jim at ozbcoz. com is the email address (after changing to @ and removing spaces )
Jim, how about adding “Living Next Door to Alice” by Smokie
The chords were recently posted on the 3 chord ukulele page on FB at my request
I will go take a look Mark – thanks ☺
My lot always enjoy, Willy Nelsons “Blue Eyes Cryin In The Rain”
good one!
Amy McDonald’s “This it’s the life” has a great rhythm for the uke.
I like Amy McDonald – good idea ☺
Even better if I’d spelt it right 😉
I Can Help
Billy Swan
I can send you chords if you need
Excellent – always happy to accept help – so yes – would love the chords (either through FB or jim@ozbcoz dot com
Tons of great shared charts here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4f9ch84clfydgrj/AABd3K-t3aX1GoJ3ASDY4nq2a
This subfolder is where the bulk of them live:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jpzzrzrdm914ez2/AAAoYSMAFKewlIZk9VfASUZ5a
Do you have the other “500 Miles” yet? – “(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles” by the Proclaimers? That’s really fun in big groups, and easy (3 chords). That’s in there.
Also some uke-related originals and parodies by me – all of them are on YouTube.
“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” is also fun.
“White Room”!!!!!!!!! – the best ukulele song ever. The correct way. Be sure to play the intro/interlude in 5/4 time and start right into it the second and third time, or I will personally come to your uke group and throttle the lot of you. 🙂
“I Love a Rainy Night” is also super fun and easy.
I should mention these charts are all in landscape mode, very nicely formatted and super readable. Best way for tablets, which is where everyone should have these … your wonderful songbook is way too big to print out, as is this database I’ve shared with you. But a tablet can hold them ALL.
There’s a Word doc template in there too, for making your own charts in this kind of format – in the “Song Template” subfolder.
If you have an iPad, pay the $5.99 for the unrealBook app … it’s what we all use for these PDF charts. Best songbook app ever.
I thought of using landscape mode after talking to Liz Panton – but when I saw how much work I would need to do to convert the songbook – I said – nah !
You big wuss, Jim Carey 🙂
Now you have stirred me up enough to do my “Why I print song sheets in landscape format” blog post 🙂
Being serious, I use Songsheet Generator and I don’t think that it would necessarily suit producing a huge book like yours in landscape format.
It is a faff doing even the 10-page song books that I do for Ukes4Fun as individual “Songbooks” with Songsheet Generator. I like to make the font as large as possible for each song sheet, so one font size does not necessarily suit all the songs in a song book and I have to cludge extra pdf files into the original songbook and delete the ones that I didn’t like so much.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to do the 10th Songbook, to make it a round 100 songs for Ukes4Fun, and then move to doing single sheets to collate and re-index annually. I think that might be easier and I am all for an easy life!
I really admire your energy and commitment in publishing new editions of your songbook so often! Thank you soooo much for doing this!
And for setting up this website! I found it by accident as I never knew the best place to find your latest edition and Google Search found this for me 🙂
Best wishes,
Liz
xxx
ps. It’s “Panton”, but at least “Paton” is better than “Phantom” 🙂
pps. I am going to recommend a song but it might get lost here so I will add a new comment.
Yep – I like seeing the songbooks in landscape but as you say – I am a wuss 🙂 and don’t like the hard work. Apologies for missing out the letter in your name – praps I was still partaking of Christmas libations 🙂 I just love your arrangements and the way you sing them (and I HAVE got your name right in the songbook ! )
Thanks for these 🙂 And I will make sure I add your comments so that people are not in danger of their lives !!! 🙂
I may just pinch a couple of your parodies if I have the time to add them in – got lot of suggestions – some of them not insulting as well !!!! 🙂
How about “No one is to blame” by Howard Jones? Love your song books!
Thanks 🙂
Beautiful Dreamer
Twilight Time
Stars (Are the Windows of Heaven)
I have the first two in there but will certainly add the Stars one 🙂
It would be good if you could include “Night Moves” and “Like A Rock” both by Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band. Also “Island of Dreams” by the Springfields.
Thanks Jim..
Sounds like a good idea !
Kiss Me by Six Pence None The Richer
https://ukutabs.com/s/sixpence-none-the-richer/kiss-me-2/
Runaway Train (Baitone Chords) by Soul Asylum
http://www.ukulele-tabs.com/uke-songs/soul-asylum/runaway-train-uke-tab-12549.html?uke=baritone
Thanks for these 🙂
Small Town by John Mellencamp
http://www.ukulele-tabs.com/uke-songs/john-cougar-mellencamp/small-town-uke-tab-8886.html
excellent !
Friday I’m in Love (in C chord) by The Cure
https://ukutabs.com/t/the-cure/friday-im-in-love/
Much easier than the other keys that are listed.
Sure – I have it in D and G – happy to add C 🙂
Gimme three steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Home for a Rest, by Spirit of the West
Jim,
How about an Eddie Cochran medley ?
Summertime Blues / C’mon Everybody/ Something Else
Quality !
Interesting thought!
“Heart and Soul” by Sheedyfrost. It is not well known – but I love it so obviously I think that it should be better known 🙂
They helped me to arrange it for ukulele – I don’t know if I can post links here . . . if I can then there is a song sheet and video here:
http://ukulele-allsorts.com/2015/12/14/heart-and-soul-by-sheedyfrost-ukulele-cover-at-flash-folk-gathering/
The chords are very easy and there is a lot of space for people who do the twiddly bits to strut their stuff 🙂
Best wishes,
Liz
That’s excellent Liz – yet another one to nick (in portrait mode!)
Brilliant!!! Thank you Jim! 🙂 And thank you VERY much for the compliments in your earlier comment – I can’t reply to that one directly to thank you there 🙂 X
Him
Here are a few songs for you to consider, I have played most of them from downloads on the web
Some are recent songs and some not so, I am concious that we can encourage younger players who so not know some of the older tunes so more recent stuff would be appreciated
Here goes
Summertime blues Eddie Cochran
39 queen
Learning to fly
I won’t back down Tom petty
Heart of gold Neil young
What makes you beautiful one direction
Letter from America proclaimed
Losing my religion rem
Waverley brothers medley
Bare necessities jungle book
Jollity farm bono dog
He ain’t heavy hollies
Reflections of my life marmalade
thanks Stuart – will get onto it
“Hawaii” by Ralph Hamilton! Another ukulele-song that is little-known but great fun – and perfect for this time of year 🙂
(NC in my song file text below means “No Chord”)
https://youtu.be/bUrlaobgb9I
{t:Hawaii}
{st:Ralph Hamilton}
{Key:G}
{footer:Copyright 2014 Ralph Hamilton. All Rights Reserved. (Songsheet created with Songsheet Generator by Liz Panton 5 Feb 2015}
{c:D7: play “Hawaiian D7” 2020}
{soc}
{c:CHORUS:}
[(NC-sing-G)]I want to go to Ha[C]waii, where it’s always nice and [G]warm
Seems like every second [D7-2020]day now . . we get another snow [G]sto..[G7]..rm
I want to dance to the [C]hula . . and get a ukulele [G]too
And if I go to Ha[D7-2020]waii . . [C] – I want to take you with me [G]too . .[*STOP*]
{eoc}
{c:VERSE 1:}
[(NC-sing-G)]You know I need a va[D7-2020]cation, where the birds are gonna [G]sing
We got another foot of [D7-2020]snow now . . and it’s the first day of [G]spri..[G7]..ng
I want a place where the [C]weather isn’t always rotten [G]cold (and it matches my clothes)
And you don’t have to use a [D7-2020]shovel . . [C] – in Hawaii I am [G]told
{soc}
{c:REPEAT CHORUS:}
[G]I want to go to Ha[C]waii, where it’s always nice and [G]warm
Seems like every second [D7-2020]day now . . we get another snow [G]sto..[G7]..rm
I want to dance to the [C]hula . . and get a ukulele [G]too
And if I go to Ha[D7-2020]waii . . [C] – I want to take you with me [G]too ..[*STOP*]
{eoc}
{c:INSTRUMENTAL TWIDDLY BITS!}
{c:VERSE 2:}
[(NC-sing-G)]I want to see a vol[D7-2020]cano, and swim the ocean so [G]blue
Maybe go to a [D7-2020]luau . . and roast a piggy or [G]two..[G7]
Now winter is a [C]dragging, I don’t really want to [G]stay
I want to go to Ha[D7-2020]waii . . [C] – where I can get myself a [G]lei!
{soc}
{c:REPEAT CHORUS:}
[G]I want to go to Ha[C]waii, where it’s always nice and [G]warm
Seems like every second [D7-2020]day now . . we get another snow [G]sto..[G7]..rm
I want to dance to the [C]hula . . and get a ukulele [G]too
And if I go to Ha[D7-2020]waii . . [C] – where I can have a Mai [D7-2020]Taii
[C] – If I go to Ha[D7-2020]waii . . [C] – I want to take you with me [G]too!
{eoc}
brilliant – thanks Liz
I would love Ella Fitzgerald’s When I Get Low, I Get High if you can find it. Thank you so much for all the music. I cannot tell you have many hours of my life have been occupied with your books to date but I hope to spend many more. The generosity of all your time and hard work is appreciated by many.
I will do it for the next edition 🙂
Jim
Yahoo! I can hardly wait. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Follow Your Arrow by Kasy Musgraves
I can’t thank you enough for this. Your book inspired me to learn to play the ukulele, and everyday my life has become a better place to be (my child doesn’t agree…but she has earplugs). I would love to suggest some grateful dead songs…..100000 acid eating hippies can’t be wrong.
It’s my pleasure – and I will just have to take a look and see what I can find then
A few I enjoy playing: Today by Smashing Pumpkins, The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham (from the movie Crazy Heart, nice and easy picking pattern), and Music of the Night from Phantom of the opera (nice to strum or finger style, and my wife loves it.)
Thanks Thomas – will look at those for the next songbook
All up in the new song section now Thomas – will also go in the new songbook in the near future
Jim
Suggestion: please consider including
– ‘S Wonderful
– Cousin Jack (relatively new Cornish song); Floral Festival (traditional/folk Cornish)
– sections of themed songs eg folk songs, gospel, bluegrass, parodies.
As mentioned by others, your contribution to the global community of ukulele players is immeasurable and very much appreciated. I hope you have a succession plan in place.
They will be in my to do list.
I like the idea of adding a genre to each song – quite a long slow job I reckon but probably worthwhile if I then allow people to display songs by genre
Thanks to the kind words – but let’s hope I still have a few years left in me 🙂
I love listening the old band music the most. And all the time I browse youtube, all the songs available there. This is simply awesome.
Thank you for this post.
Could you add “Don’t Cause Mother’s Hair to Turn Grey” J. E. Mainer to the song collection?
You don’t happen to have a copy of the lyrics or chord sheet do you ?
Jim
Country Lanes by BeeGees
I’ll add it in the next couple of days
check https://ozbcoz.com/Songs/song.php?ID=5254
Might I suggest “When I Take My Sugar Tea”. Usually in the key of F.
I’ll take a look – thanks