What are your 10 favorite songs to play? (you can post fewer, but not more than 10)

I only have about 10 favs (that I can play) and here they are in no particular order:

The Garden Song
Sloop John B
Ladybug picnic
I am a pizza
Beautiful Kauai
Eight Days a week
Rock around the clock
Falling Slowly
Hallelujah
You are my sunshine

Liz S.
 
Hmmm tough. Not sure if I have 10 favorites, but I'll try

Valerie
Let My Love Open the Door
Kiss Me
Beyond the Sea
Isn't She Lovely
How Bizarre
Lemonade
Walking on Sunshine
Guava Jam
Is This Love
 
I seem to gravitate towards these in my songbook:

And I Love Her
The Circle Game
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Ring of Fire
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Love Me Tender
I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry
Tennessee Waltz
All of Me
Jolene
 
I'm a strummer and a singer and these are currently what I enjoy playing/singing the most:

The Lost And Found - The Derailers
Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson
The Weight - The Band
Wagon Wheel - Darius Rucker is who I know it by
Twisting The Night Away - Sam Cooke
Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran
Somewhere Down Below The Dixon Line - Jimmie Rogers but I know it by Leon Redbone
Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) - Kris Kristoferson but I know it by Tompall &The Glaser Brothers
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You - Hank Williams
Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out - written by Jimmy Cox [Now if I could only figure out how to end the song!]
 
Playing for about 9 months, no particular order:

•King of the Road
•Don't Think Twice
•Sway
•Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Iz version with corrected lyrics)
•Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
•Secret Agent Man
•Don't Worry, Be Happy
•Hanukkah in Santa Monica
•Sixteen Tons
•Come Fly with Me (I reworked the lyrics with a Hawaiian theme)
Come fly with me, let's fly Hawaii way! If you can use some exotic fruit
There's a farm near Hilo Bay. Come fly with me, let's fly Hawaii way
Come fly with me, let's float down to O'ahu. In pineapple land, there's a one-man band
And he'll strum his uke for you. Come fly with me! Let's take off in the blue.
Once I get you up there, where the air is rarified, we'll just glide, starry-eyed
Once I get you up there, I'll be holding you so near, you may hear the wahinés cheer because we're together
Weather-wise, it's such a lovely day! Just say the words and we'll beat the birds
Down to Waimea Bay; It's perfect for a surfing honeymoon they say
Come fly with me, come fly Hawaii-way.
 
Strictly instrumentals for me; I'm not talented enough to have 10 solid ones in my repertoire since I tend to choose challenging stuff:

I Will Wait For You (theme from Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
La Vie en Rose
Love is Blue
Misty
Theme from I Dream of Jeannie
'Alekoki (John King arrangement)
Ain't She Sweet
A few originals written by my uke instructor - these are actually my favorite thing to play for others since they aren't familiar and my mistakes won't be so obvious! :)
 
I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
Somewhere beyond the sea (even more fun with the French lyrics "La Mer")
Summer samba (So Nice)
How about you?
Where or when (Lyle Ritz arrangement)
Honeysuckle Rose (Lyle Ritz arrangement)
Surfer girl (Lyle Ritz arrangement)
Meditation (Jobim)
Tonight you belong to me (Lyle Ritz again. I love Lyle Ritz)
Ain't that a kick in the head
 
Blue red and grey
Pencil thin mustache
Crazy
Down to seeds and stems
E ku u morning dew
Dream a little dream
Heart and soul
Here there and everywhere
For you blue
Well alright
 
Constantly changing, but right now, my guess would be...

Stars Fell on Alabama
The Ukulele Band of Alabama fight song, because I just wrote it and am trying to remember how the melody should go
Let It Be
Church (Stephen Stills)
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Someone to Watch Over Me
Happy (Pharrell Williams)
Ain't Misbehavin'
Blues Yodel No. 6
 
kohanmike said:
Come fly with me, let's fly Hawaii way! If you can use some exotic fruit
There's a farm near Hilo Bay. Come fly with me, let's fly Hawaii way
Come fly with me, let's float down to O'ahu. In pineapple land, there's a one-man band
And he'll strum his uke for you. Come fly with me! Let's take off in the blue.
Once I get you up there, where the air is rarified, we'll just glide, starry-eyed
Once I get you up there, I'll be holding you so near, you may hear the wahinés cheer because we're together
Weather-wise, it's such a lovely day! Just say the words and we'll beat the birds
Down to Waimea Bay; It's perfect for a surfing honeymoon they say
Come fly with me, come fly Hawaii-way.
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Fabulous work kahanmike..... I do appreciate a clever re-working, this one really flows.
 
Here's my most frequently played,
- All I have to do is dream
- City of New Orleans
- Crawdad song
- Five foot two
- Four strong winds
- Little Brown gal
- Somewhere over the rainbow
- Tonight you belong to mw
- 26 miles
- What a day for a daydream

????? Would really like to find chords for 'Hela di ladi lo' (Dolly Dots).
Cheers,
R
 
I'll see you in my dreams
Pencil Thin Mustache, by Jimmy Buffett
On and On, by Steven Bishop
If i had you
Let's Fall In Love
She ain't Rose, by Leon Redbone
My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now
Rubber Duckie
Walking My baby back home
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, by Nick Lowe (tabbed by Seeso after I posted a request on this forum -- I played it for my wife when I proposed to her-- thanks again Seeso!)
 
Strumdaddy said:
Fabulous work kahanmike..... I do appreciate a clever re-working, this one really flows.
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Thanks very much Strumdaddy, went through a few incarnations before getting to this one. I wonder if Hawaiian Airlines would be interested in a jingle.
 
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I Should Have Known Better - The Beatles
Ouch - The Ruttles
With a Girl Like You - The Ruttles
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
I Push Right Over - Robbie Fulks (I transposed this from E to D because it's a lot easier to play)
Surfin' Tragedy - The Sentinals
All The Way To Reno - R.E.M.
Volunteers of America - Jefferson Airplane
I'll be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits
 
Nice list.

Everything they say we are, we are… and we are very proud of ourselves.

Reverborama said:
I Should Have Known Better - The Beatles
Ouch - The Ruttles
With a Girl Like You - The Ruttles
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
I Push Right Over - Robbie Fulks (I transposed this from E to D because it's a lot easier to play)
Surfin' Tragedy - The Sentinals
All The Way To Reno - R.E.M.
Volunteers of America - Jefferson Airplane
I'll be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits
Click to expand...
 
csr5z said:
I'll see you in my dreams
Pencil Thin Mustache, by Jimmy Buffett
On and On, by Steven Bishop
If i had you
Let's Fall In Love
She ain't Rose, by Leon Redbone
My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now
Rubber Duckie
Walking My baby back home
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, by Nick Lowe (tabbed by Seeso after I posted a request on this forum -- I played it for my wife when I proposed to her-- thanks again Seeso!)
Click to expand...

You're very welcome, sir! Glad to be a small part of an historic day. :)
 
I've only been playing about two months but right now I enjoy playing...

King of the Road
Wildwood Flower
Me and Julio
Up a Lazy River
Tom Dooley
I'll Fly Away
Black Velvet Band
 
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