wee_ginga_yin
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No alternative facts. No fake news. could have been a Trickster Trump song.
Hello wee ginga yin,
Gimme Some Truth is particularly topical with a general election coming up in the UK and I'm interested in trying to play Lennon's song. I've seen guitar chords using D, F♯m , D7, G, A, C, B♭ but wonder what you have found that works on the ukulele and if you have produced your song by ear or if you have written down tabs or chords for it?
Best wishes,
Paul
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I'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight, short-sighted narrow-minded hypocritics
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All I want is the truth
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Just gimme some truth
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I've had enough of reading things by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
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All I want is the truth
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Just gimme some truth
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No short-haired yellow-bellied son of Tricky Dicky's gonna mother hubbard
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soft-soap me with just a pocketful of hope
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Money for dope, money for rope
Why are snide political comments ok on this forum? I thought we were about ukuleles, not politics or religion.
Social conscience is one thing. Political sniping is another. Maybe that might be more appropriate to another kind of forum.Ukuleles are about music. Music is art. Please don't let politics censor it.
Ukuleles are about music. Music is art. Please don't let politics censor it.
Politics has many guises. Music is one of them. Politics and religion are volatile subjects that are wisely off limits on THIS forum. Certainly discussions and music about politics are a good thing...elsewhere.Utterly agreed. Art has many guises. Music is one of them. The day we censor the creative spirit is one we should all be afraid of.
Political correctness is killing the western world.
This is awesome wee. Take a bow.
Politics has many guises. Music is one of them. Politics and religion are volatile subjects that are wisely off limits on THIS forum. Certainly discussions and music about politics are a good thing...elsewhere.
Putting in a subtitle w/ a particular political point of view does the job of dragging in politics. Righteousness and self righteousness might be a matter of point of view. Your "truth" and mine are not necessarily the same. That's why I think it's a good idea to leave politics and religion out of this forum. There are plenty of other places to make your truth known.As it stands I only sing the song and leave it as it stands, and I find that it is always others that drag in the religion or the politics and try and get me banned because I have offended their sensibilities. I get blamed for breaking the rules where the truth of the matter is that it is the message affronts and therefore has to be silenced. The self righteous will always invoke the rules and the law, and make appeals to a higher authority to meet out justice.
Utterly agreed. Art has many guises. Music is one of them. The day we censor the creative spirit is one we should all be afraid of.
Political correctness is killing the western world.
This is awesome wee. Take a bow.
Social conscience is one thing. Political sniping is another.
Speaking in general terms, as I said in previous remarks, it is not my objection that artists express themselves in whatever way they are moved. I do question the appropriateness of doing so in the context of this forum. More specifically, I am tired of the Trump bashing (he was not my candidate) that I've seen on this forum. Putting up the video "Give me some truth" was great. Adding remarks directing it at Trump, however, was political commentary which I thought was not appropriate for THIS forum...FINE elsewhere. I doubt it would fly, if it were six months ago and anti-Hilary. It's a slippery slope and one that I foolishly believed we were trying to avoid on this UKULELE forum by having a rule not to discuss religion or politics. Apparently, not so. Some folks feel compelled to put out their political view on this forum (not just in song, but in the commentary connected with or following the post), as if this was the only place to express those views. What's wrong with leaving those views off UU and just express them freelyThis is not true. Political sniping has been at the heart of artistic expression....If all paintings were rainbows and all songs love songs, there would be no art whatsoever. bunnyf, I hope that's not what you want.
You don't have to agree with the "politics" of the artwork, just experience it.
What's wrong with leaving those views off UU and just express them freely EVERYWHERE else?
If there is no place t draw the line, then why have a rule to not discuss politics and religion on this forum?