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Usually a quick internet search gives me a few ideas for each Season. Not this week, though. And I only could think of a couple songs I already like that mention castles. Luckily, one of them is perfect for ukulele...

Another Seasonista did a wonderful version of the first song I thought of for this Season (props to Joo), so I guess all I have to do is...

This song's about as simple as it gets, even among outsider musicians and anarcho-punks. So yes, I love it <3 Time passing, unseen, heavy with mortality, with memory and sentiment, and fearful regret, bitter seed of futile fertility -Rudimentary Peni

Did you know that Ozzy Osbourne wrote his own version of John Lennon's "Imagine" in the late 90s, then recorded and released it in 2001? Thank goodness (and heavy metal's Prince of Darkness) for the Seasons of the Ukulele 🤘

Practiced all week and... welp... here you go :P Have a lovely spring or autumn, y'all, depending on your hemisphere!

I learned about this song at children's spaces. When many of those places close up, they play this song. "I know who I want to take me home."

I recorded "O' Sanity" by Yoko Ono early this week because I sympathize with her long-term struggle with grief. I've also understood myself as a melancholy person ever since I first looked up the word, so this Gorillaz song is great for me this week as well.

I cannot believe that I haven't played this Yoko Ono song (that I learned to play and sing on guitar way back in the 90s) for any of our previous 628 Seasons.

And I couldn't resist playing a Pretenders song as well!

Just a few months after the UK's 1976 explosion of musical creativity (known today as punk rock) began, the scene began to splinter and people began to call one another out for pretending to be punks. And no one did that with more attitude than anarcho-punks Crass :P

A waltz, yeah? I went straight to my ukulele bible - May Singhi Breen's New Ukulele Method for Beginners and Advanced Students - and rediscovered her lovely ukulele solo arrangement of this 1935 gem...

Songs about body parts? Hmm. For previous Seasons, I've already played Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom," ZZ Top's "Tush," and sang the lyrics to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner." I'm probably overdue to sing about other body parts, yeah? Yeah.

Hawks are birds. So is a metal bird ridden by a sorceress in a Michael Moorcock story. So a Hawkwind song that mentions that metal bird must be just right for this Season... Fly safely, friends :P

As many of y'all know, my musical heroes are the Clash, nicknamed "the only band that matters" by the music press. And my favorite Clash album is Combat Rock. And the one song I've never tried on ukulele from Combat Rock - before this week - was...

I just sang this Tom Petty song at karaoke the other night, and immediately realized it accentuates the positive well enough for me. And it's way easier to play than Al Jarreau's "Boogie Down." (Which could be re-titled "Difficult-to-get Down-on-ukulele," at least for me this week.)...