These five new ukulele tunes are all in the key of C and stick to the chords C and G7. Just like the songs parents learned with their kids in the articles Parents and Kids Play Their First Ukulele Song and Play Ukulele Tunes With Two Chords: C and G7, these are great traditional campfire tunes everyone’s likely to know.
They’re a little trickier though, because the chords change more than one time per song. If parents continue to strum on the downbeats with their child, it’ll make the increased amount of chord changes easier to handle. As in parts 3 and 4, the downbeats are noted by the syllables in all caps. In the next part of this article, provided parents and kids feel ready, they’ll get to throw in some strumming embellishments.
Hush Little Baby
(To find the first note, parents and kids can pluck the open G string)
(C) HUSH little BA-by, DON’T say a (G7) WORD.
MA-ma’s gonna BUY you a MOCK-ing (C) BIRD.
And IF that MOCK-ing BIRD don’t (G7) SING
MA-ma’s gonna BUY you a DI-amond (C) RING
Rock-a My Soul
(To find the first note, parents and kids can pluck the open E string)
(C) ROCK-a my SOUL in the BOS-om of AB-raham,
(G7) ROCK-a my SOUL in the BOS-om of AB-raham,
(C) ROCK-a my SOUL in the BOS-om of AB-raham,
(G7) OH, ROCK-s my (C) SOUL.
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
(To find the first note, parents and kids can make a C chord and pluck the B string they’re pressing with their pointer finger.)
(C) HERE we go ROUND the MUL-berry BUSH,
The (G7) MUL-berry BUSH,
The (C) MUL-berry BUSH.
HERE we go ROUND the MUL-berry BUSH,
So (G7) EAR-ly IN the (C) MORN-ING
The Wheels On The Bus
(To find the first note, parents and kids can pluck the open G string)
(C) The WHEELS on the BUS go ROUND and ROUND,
(G7) ROUND and ROUND,
(C) ROUND and ROUND,
The WHEELS on the BUS go ROUND and ROUND,
(G7) ALL THROUGH the (C) TOWN.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
(To find the first note, parents and kids can pluck the open E string.)
(C) MA-ry HAD a LIT-tle LAMB,
(G7) LIT-tle LAMB,
(C) LIT-tle LAMB,
MA-ry HAD a LIT-tle LAMB,
Its (G7) FLEECE was WHITE as (C) SNOW.
One they've learned these songs, parents and kids have more than doubled the number of songs they can sing under the stars at the next family campout. If they practice a steady down stroke, the next article will work wonders for their strumming.
Marcy Paulson - From the moment Marcy Paulson picked up a recorder in fourth grade music class, she was hooked. Since then, her passion for music has ...
