Seasons of the Ukulele

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Season 686: You're Having A Laugh!

dr_mitch

Now this is a great season to play with, though I've no idea how many songs I'll manage.

Anyway, here's my first.

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the thought came to me on our morning hike to set this well-known silly and fun rhyme to some music 🙂 i used a simple old-school chord progression and made up a couple of extra lines in my head as we were walking and sat down and played it! (i mean, i always carry a uke in my back-pack, who doesn't?) big thanks to JooJoo for the cool filming! i kinda mangled the words a tiny bit but i hope you get a smile out of it

the area we're walking is along North-West Bay where we live here in south-eastern Tasmania

on (G)mules we find two (E7)legs behind

and we (A7)find two (D7)legs be(G)fore

when we're behind the (E7)two behind

we (A7)find what these be (D7)for

he (G)kicked me higher than the (G7)noonday sun

and i (C)didn't come down til (C7)Kingdom Come!

on (G)mules we find two (E7)legs behind and we

(A7)find two (D7)legs be(G)fore!

UkeFoote

"Listen to the Flower People", by Spinal Tap, performed by UkeFoote, reprising their live performance in last summer's "Hippie Music" show at Woodstock Ukulele's All the World's A Stage. Brian plays concert ukulele and sings, Borfus plays bass and also sings. A tenor ukulele in forward and reversed provides a psychedelic tinge. Thanks for hosting Edwin… I hope this gives you a larf!

DelGriff

And here’s my second Bernard Cribbins song of the week. It dates from the same era as the previous one (1962) and is just as humorous. It’s the tale of three removal guys trying to unsuccessfully shift an unspecified but unwieldy item of furniture into a room. As the song progresses they get increasingly desperate in their methods. But what became of poor old Fred?

Once again, just me and baritone uke, but with some added sound effects.

Right Said Fred - cover of a Bernard Cribbins song (SOTU 686)

bonesoup

Hey all here is another from Weird Al's classic 80s album Dare to Be Stupid, "Yoda." To the tune of The Kinks' Lola.

CanadaJim

LOVE - The Movie - Andy Breckman

A sad screenplay, but the word "Laughter" does make a couple of appearances and the image of God in his underwear is kinda funny too.
Dolly In and Dolly Out: A standard dolly shot usually refers to smoothly moving the camera forward or away from your subject, labeled “dolly in” and “dolly out,” respectively.

LimousinLil

Rebonjour, Edwin! I am hoping that this can be counted for this week as it's a second rehash … which I'm not sure is allowed. I don't write many songs, but, if I say so myself, this was damn clever - well, for ME - and I'm rather proud of it. I WAS intending to make a new recording, but, what with dogs, family and etc., I haven't had time … I DID add more books to the video, though, as befits a song about a library. So, I bring you a sad song of lost love in the "library of life" …

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traditional American folk song, a super fun one i learnt from a Pete Seeger album

the uke is the latest tip-shop outcast that we bought home a couple of days ago for $2 - a couple of hours of JooJoo awesomeness w/ her painting and we have another cute lil' soprano uke to carry around w/ us (some pics at the end of the clip)

it needs a new set of tuners pretty badly but for now i managed to get 3 of the 4 strings to work, so it's more like an 'ekolu' than a 'ukulele' at the moment: CEA tuning, no G string!

Joo surprised me 1/2 way through w/ a random guest appearance 🙂

joo

I am playing the same uke as Jon in his clip posted just before me. The uke sounds really good, even with 3 strings.

I hope this is silly (or funny) to make you smile.

I have made another short clip to show the uke's 3-string power in the toilet but i don't think it's funny. It was just FUNny to record in the toilet.

Edwin

Hi all, just dropping in to say I've brought the playlist up to date. I got busy yesterday but I'll catch up with listening later today. Still a bit of time to have a laugh!

UkeCan1

I created this with collaborators Paul and Priya for the upcoming Conference for Global Transformation, and I think it's a legit twofer. It's designed to make you laugh, and is all about overcoming our unspoken "shoulds".

I wrote an original song for it, "Take the 'L'". The title is based on a sort of "in joke" in my chorus, where we've reclaimed the loser "L" to the forehead to stand for "Learner", and we celebrate with it every time we make a mistake.

The theme of this year's Conference is "At Play in the World: Risking Failure", and the song was written to express our own personal relationships to that idea.

The Conference YouTube channel is here, and includes a playlist of Collaborative Artist Videos for this year including this one … and you can also find two videos I created last year on the 2024 Poster Videos playlist. (The 2025 poster videos aren't up yet - I'm working on 4 this year!)

dr_mitch

Well, it turns out the number of songs I can manage this week is… two. Here's one of my own composition. It's a love song.

CanadaJim

THE LIST - Steve Hogg
My friend Steve wrote this, but I'm not the Jim in the song. . .Honest.
Thanks to Bo Diddley for the strum.

Clayton Yates, Steve Hogg, Jim Yates, Darcy Yates at Grant Ave. Studio, Hamilton, Ontario. circa 2001

CeeJay

Homage to the Rochdale comedian and songwriter Mike Harding.

And having a dabble with open A tuning on the Bariguilele.

And a licorice juice bottleneck slide !!

CanadaJim

THE SHAPE OF THINGS - Sheldon Harnick

Maggie and I did this at the open mic on Saturday and promised to include it in this season. Here you go Edwin! The last time we remember doing it was at a folk club about 4 decades ago.

DesertPavement

Thanks for hosting Edwin. I know you said no punching down, but if there is a hell, and it is below us, then this one breaks the rules. Hope you’ll allow it.

OnlyUkeThatMatters

I had a good idea for this week - sharing a Tom Lehrer song making fun of college math instructors - though I didn't make nearly enough time to get it together.

Hopefully, this attempt at "The Professor's Song (math version)" will give y'all an idea of how it might've sounded if I'd been able to make more time to practice…

Edwin

Hi everyone! I've finally caught up with everything, and Ralf's marvellous version of a lesser known (I believe) Tom Lehrer song brings this season to a close. Thanks for all your songs! I don't think I've missed anything but please shout if I have…

Now then, time to enjoy Joko's season. Just… don't tell me what I should or shouldn't do for it, okay? 🙂

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