Your Uke repetoire

So I was inspired by a thread by mendel about what you are playing right now. So I was curious as to what are people's song list. You know songs that they play all the time, I'm looking to learn a new song right now, and am kind of stuck. Keep in mind I'm a strummer/singer, not good at finger picking (yet!) Here's my list:

No woman no cry - Bob Marley
Grave digger - Dave Matthews
Hawaiian Supa Man - Braddah IZ
Sitting Waiting Wishing - Jack Johnson
Betterman - Pearl Jam
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili peppers
Santeria - Sublime
Polly - Nirvana
Blister in the sun - Violent Femmes
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Bad Touch - Bloodhound gang
Rainbow Connection - Kermit the frog
If I was President - Wyclef Jean
Island in the sun - Weezer (learned from Aldrien on UU!!)
Big empty - stone temple pilots
Por ti Volare - Andrea Bocceli

What are your guys favorites? Any suggestions on something fun to play and sing??

go to tabs and chords, and there is a sweet tab for 'nothingman'.
'we are going to be friends' by white stripes. easy - nice for you if you can sing.
'can't keep' is speedy for the fingers, but once you get it you got it. check uke hunt.
'big me', 'best of you', 'times like these' - all good easy foos.
my voice is worse than my ukin', so i mostly just tab out vocals, but have been trying to strum some elvis ('cant help falling in love', etc) and sing as elvis. i know it sucks, but the wife thinks it's funny.
peace. jc

shew...

No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Iz
Dig Up Her Bones - Misfits
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
Waitin on the World to Change - John Mayer
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Out of My League - Stephen Speaks
Super Mario Level 1
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jake Shimabukuro
Ukulele Waltz - Aldrine Guerrero
You Are - Jason Castro
Puff the Magic Dragon
Nothin' to Do - The FreeFallers (original, my band)
Lines - The FreeFallers
Freefallin' - Tom Petty
Rhythm of Love - Plain White T's
1234 - Plain White T's
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
Hey Soul Sister - Train
Tetris Theme
All Star - Smashmouth
Good Riddance (Time of your life) - Green Day
The Campfire Song Song - Spongebob
Intensity in Ten Cities - Chiodos (my own arrangement)
Starfire - DragonForce (my own arrangement)




I'm sure I'll think of more... I'll edit em in later xD

Dock of the Bay- Otis Redding
Stand By Me- Ben E. King
The Cave- Mumford and Sons
Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
Soul Sister- Train
Tears in Heaven- Clapton
Somewhere Over The Rainbow- Bruddah Iz
Time After Time- Cyndi Lauper
Hallelujah- Rufus Wainright
Take On Me- Ah Ha
Till There was You


I'm glad I inspired a great thread!!!!

Pretty much all classical. I love me some Bach, Sanz and there's a lot of good stuff by some guy named Anonymous.

Can't sing, so all my songs are instrumentals

Ukulele Waltz
Hallelujah
Dragon

(Enough to kill my fingers )

Still struggling with Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World.

Jlester, thanks Brah!! I'm definitely going to check those all out!

My standards:

Five Foot Two
It Had to Be You
Broadway Melody
Baby Face
Hello My Baby
Toot, Toot Tootsie!
Ain't She Sweet
Paper Moon
The Best Things In Life Are Free
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Will The Circle Be Unbroken

I want to start learning a good dozen sing along/camp style songs. Pete and Woody are a good place to start my search.

pdxuke said:

Pete and Woody are a good place to start my search.

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:bowdown::bowdown:

Sleepy Time Gal
Ain't She Sweet
I'll See You In My Dreams

Going North- Missy Higgins
You and I -Ingrid Michaelson
The Way I Am -Ingrid Michaelson
Ukulele Lady
Molokai Slide
No Love Today- Chris Smither (fun...check it out)
Home- Jack Johnson
Hallelujah
Over The Rainbow/ What a Wonderful World
Rhythm of Love
Bring Me Sunshine
Amazing Grace
Blown Kisses- Martin Zellar
Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol
Hear You Me- Jimmy Eat World
I Can See Clearly Now
I'll Remember You
You and I- Ingrid Michaelson
The Only Exception- Paramore (for my niece)
Grapefruit Juicy Fruit -Jimmy Buffet

Great Thread!

The songs that I can either play off page or am close to getting off page are:

"I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz
"Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - the Glee version that someone posted here (thanks, BTW )
"Every Day is Like Sunday" - Morrissey
"You Are the Everything" - REM
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" - Peter, Paul, and Mary
"Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Bangles
"Here Comes Your Man" - The Pixies
"Baby, One More Time" - Britney Spears (I used to be embarrassed to like this song, but then cool bands like Travis and Fountains of Wayne started covering it, and I felt vindicated - plus, it's really fun to play)
"The Man Who Sold the World" - David Bowie (I am still only up to about half speed on the finger picking, but I have the strumming down)
"No Surprises" - Radiohead

I'm just a stummer too. Terry - the other half of the Ukes of hazard - is the finger poickin' soloist guy of the group.
We've got a about 50 songs in our repetoire now (we just worked out the other day that we started mucking around as a duo about three years ago so bear in mind that we've practiced every Thursday night since) but there are some songs we always play live and always enjoy

Two good English pop songs to have a crack at are:

Easy 3 chords - In the Summer Time – Mungo Jerry. Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon – Kinks - more like an old 20's song in it's chord structure.
And likewise - Opehelia by The Band has a lovely chord progression and a couple of cool changes in rhythm & is also a bit of challenge to sing..

House of the Rising Sun
What a Wonderful Word
Greensleeves
White Sandy Beach
No Woman No Cry
Jammin'
Good Riddance
generic pretend blues riff
Paint it Black
Hotel California
Losing My Religion
Love Song (not the UU version)
Just Like Heaven
Kirtland Murder Barn
Paul Tibbets
Even Stephen
Hurt
Tomorrow Wendy
Europa
Nowhere Man
Bungalow Bill
St. Johns Infirmary
Creep

And for you Big Bang Theory fans...

Soft Kitty - but only when you're sick.

.... What I remember right now off the top of my head. Some of these are just chord and some of these are chord + some solo. The most difficult one I have going is Hotel California.

This is a good thread because I find I can play along with many songs in songbooks but don't really memorize them that well. The ones I am working on are:

Staten Island Slide
Incense and Peppermints
Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon
Blue Skies
Ain't she sweet and 5'2
Hot Tamales and They're Red Hot
No Rain (blind melon)
Friend of the devil (Grateful Dead)
Mexicali Blues (Grateful Dead)

lots of others but I know that what I need to do is get some down and memorize the words etc... perfect them as if trying to pass a test I guess....

Plainsong said:

House of the Rising Sun
What a Wonderful Word
Greensleeves
White Sandy Beach
No Woman No Cry
Jammin'
Good Riddance
generic pretend blues riff
Paint it Black
Hotel California
Losing My Religion
Love Song (not the UU version)
Just Like Heaven
Kirtland Murder Barn
Paul Tibbets
Even Stephen
Hurt
Tomorrow Wendy
Europa
Nowhere Man
Bungalow Bill
St. Johns Infirmary
Creep

And for you Big Bang Theory fans...

Soft Kitty - but only when you're sick.

.... What I remember right now off the top of my head. Some of these are just chord and some of these are chord + some solo. The most difficult one I have going is Hotel California.

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Tabs for soft kitty!! please?

I'm working on memorizing my "Go To" list:

Memorized:

• Ukulele Lady
• Hello Ma Baby
• Five Foot Two
• Ja-Da
• Blue Skies
• Three Little Birds
• La Bamba
• Proud Mary
• I'm in the Mood for Love
• Love Potion #9
• Bungalow for Two

Almost memorized:

• My Little Grass Shack
• When the Red Red Robin
• Tonight You Belong to Me
• Happy Trails & Aloha Oe (from the UCSD Book)
• Hey Good Lookin'

Hope to memorize this year:

• I Can See Clearly Now
• Hallelujah
• Build Me Up Buttercup
• Mr Sandman
• My Guy
• When I'm 64
• Dream a Little Dream of Me

The baker's dozen I play the most (or most comfortably) from memory:

• I Get the Blues When It Rains
• Palm of Your Hand (Cake)
• Sister Kate (Ditty Bops & others)
• Coffee In the Morning, Kisses In the Night
• Killermont Street (Aztec Camera via Fountains of Wayne)
• We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
• Lake Charles (Lucinda Williams)
• What a Good Boy (Barenaked Ladies)
• Leavin' On A Jet Plane
• Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
• Fu(% You (Bowdlerized to "Forget You" when kids are around)
• Tonight You Belong to Me
• Many Shades of Black (Raconteurs)

Songs that I know,without a 'sheet' in front of me:
A Hard Day's Night
Ain't She Sweet
All I Have To Do Is Dream
All I Want Is You
All My Loving
All Together Now
As Tears Go By
Baby Face
Bad Moon Rising
Blowin' In The Wind
Bring Me Sunshine
Bye Bye Blackbird
Can't Buy Me Love
Colours
Blue Moon
Darktown Strutters Ball
Daydream
Daydream Believer
Daytripper
Doctor Jazz
Don't Bring Lulu
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Eight Days A Week
Five Foot Two
From Me To You
Great Balls Of Fire
Hey Jude
Henry The Eigth
Hi Ho Silver Lining
Home On The Range
Honky Tonk Women
Hot Tamales(They're Red Hot)
Hurdy Gurdy Man
I Can See Clearly Now
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
I Feel Fine
I Have A Dream
I Wanna Be Like You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
In My Life
Jollity Farm
Keep On Running
Keep On Trucking,Mama
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Lazybones
Love Minus Zero - No Limit
Mack The Knife
Maggie May
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Moon River
Mr Sandman
Mr Tambourine Man
Nowhere Man
Paper Moon
Pack Up Your Troubles
Penny Lane
Proud Mary
Route 66
She Belongs To Me
Show Me The Way To Go Home
Side By Side
Singing In The Rain
Sitting On Top Of The World
Spanish Harlem
The Green Door
The Lambeth Walk
The Urban Spaceman
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Up Around The Bend
When You're Smiling
Yesterday
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

Songs that I have sheets for and often fool around with
include the Complete Beatles songlist,and about fifty oldies.