The River Ukes Songbook
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The River Ukes Songbook 1 You are my sunshine 2 Banana Boat Song 3 The Lion Sleeps Tonight 4 Eleanor Rigby 5 Don't worry be happy 6 Octopus' Garden 7 With or without you 8 Yellow submarine 9 Brown Eyed Girl 10 Scarborough Fair 11 My Blue Heaven 13 Sweet Leilani 14 Hallelujah 15 The Tide is High 16 I Walk the Line 17 Morningtown Ride 18 Country Roads 19 Sloop John B 20 Yes sir that's my baby 21 The Rainbow connection 22 We are going (Woyaya) 24 Eight days a week 25 I'd like to teach the world to sing 26 Sunday smile 27 Sugar man 30 Always look on the bright side 31 Stand by me/Lean on me 32 Let it be 33 Leaving on a jet plane 34 I'm yours 35 Oh lonesome me 36 Please don't talk/Five foot two 40 California Stars 41 Diana 42 Squeezebox 43 Crocodile Rock 44 Dream Lover 45 Cover of the Rolling Stone 46 Swing Low/Rivers of Babylon 47 House of the Rising Sun 48 Summertime 49 Side by Side 50 Day trip to Bangor 51 I'll fly away 52 Billabong 53 Happy Birthday 56 Blue Suede Shoes 57 Stuck in the Middle 58 Build me up Buttercup 59 Folsom Prison Blues 60 Hotel California 61 Have you ever Seen the Rain 62 Sound of Silence 67 Hey Soul Sister 71 Rock around the Clock 72 Living Next Door to Alice 73 With a little help 74 Bad moon rising 75 Find my way back home 76 Such great heights 79 Moonlight shadow 80 My favourite game 81 Running Bear 82 Yoshimi 84 Ghost Riders in the Sky 85 The Ship Song 87 What a day for a Daydream 88 Take it Easy 89 Cotton Fields 90 Down on the Corner 91 Lookin out my Back Door 92 Biding my Time 93 Sunday Morning key C 94 Dreaming 95 Hit the Road Jack 96 Tiny Bubbles 97 Eye of the Tiger 98 Blue Moon Medley 99 Little Boxes 100 Wonderful Tonight 101 Peaceful Easy Feeling 102 Singing the Blues 103 Daydream Believer 104 Spanish Harlem 105 Ob La Di 106 Island in the Sun 107 Killing Me Softly 108 Riptide in Am 109 Friday I'm in Love in G 110 Barbados 111 Chocolate Jesus 112 Any Dream Will Do 113 Sway 114 San Francisco Bay in C 114A San Francisc Bay in G 115 Try 116 Goin up the Country 117 Hooked on a Feeling 118 Que Sera 119 Fly me to the Moon 120 Long may you Run 121 Stumblin in 122 Moonlight Bay 123 A World of our own 124 A Kind of Hush 125 As tears go by 126 My Girl 127 Stray Cat Strut in Am 128 Six Ribbons 129 I can see clearly in D 130 Sundown 131 Gypsy Queen 132 Lover Please 133 You will never grow old 134 Maggie May 135 Jamaica Farewell 136 A Little Bitty Tear 137 Crippled Inside 138 I still call Australia 139 Sorrow 140 Ex's and Oh's 141 Throw your arms 142 Yellow Bird 143 Save the last dance 144 Delilah 145 Play that Song 146 Banks of the Ohio 147 Slave to Love 148 Lovers of the World 149 Morning has Broken 150 Moonshadow 151 Sweet Baby James 152 Mary Anne 153 Listen to the Ocean 154 First we take Manhattan 155 500 Miles 156 Judgement Day 157 Bye Bye Love 158 Way out West 159 Promises 160 Pretty Woman 161 We shall overcome 162 Down and out Blues 163 Mary Don't you weep 164 Summer Song 165 Let your love flow 166 Teenager in Love 167 So long it's been good 168 Red Rose café 169 Paper Roses 170 What a wonderful world 171 Gypsy Queen 172 Bury me 173 On the bright side 174 Summer Wine 175 Big Rock Candy Mtn 176 Moon River 177 Everybody's somebody's 178 I only want in G 179 Hard to be Humble 180 The Night has 1000 eyes 181 You're so Vain 182 Careless Love 182 Everybody's Talkin 184 Delta Momma Blues 185 Dream a Little Dream 186 Till There Was you 187 Keep Your Hands off 188 Manchester Rambler 189 For my Lady 190 Medley travelling 191 Some Days are diamonds 192 You ain't Goin Nowhere in G 192A You aint goin nowhere in C 193 Cockles and Mussels 194 Eden was just like this 195 Magaritaville 196 Pearly Shells 197 Don't Wait too Long 198 It's all over now baby blue 199 Midnight Special 200 The times they are a changin 201 Dirty Old Town 202 Will the Circle be Unbroken 203 Budapest 204 Little Brown Jug 205 New York Girls 206 Meet me on the Corner 207 And I Love Her 208 Streets of London 209 Our Town 210 Can't Help Falling in Love 211 Don't think twice 212 Goodbye Medley 213 Lyin ' Eyes 214 Sylvia's Mother 215 Blue Bayou 216 Blue Eyes Cryin in the rain 217 You can't do that 218 When the Saints 219 We'll meet again 220 Nowhere Man 221 Girl 222 Whisky in the Jar 223 When I'm Cleaning Windows You are my sunshine. [*] optional Em. CH C C7 F C /C7 You are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when skies are grey F C. [*]Am C G7 /C You'll never know dear how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away C C7 F C C7 The other night dear as I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms /F /C[*]/Am C G7 C When I awoke dear I was mistaken and I hung my head and cried You are my sunshine... C C 7 F / C C7 You told me once dear you really loved me and no one else could come between F /C[*]/Am C G7 C But now you've left me and love another you have shattered all my dreams You are my sunshine... C C7 F C C7 I'll always love you and make you happy if you will only say the same F /C[*]/Am C G7 C But if you leave me to love another you'll regret it all some day You are my sunshine... C G7 /C Last time repeat;- Please don't take my sunshine away1 oo 1 The Banana Boat Song. C//// G7// C/ pause/ C//// G7// C/ Chorus: C Day-G7-o, F Day-ay-ay-C-o. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Day- G7-o, F Day-ay-ay-C-o. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Work all night on a G7 drink a’ C rum. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Stack banana till de G7 mornin’ C come C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Come, Mister tally man G7 tally me banana. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C come, Mister tally man G7 tally me banana. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Six foot, seven foot, G7 eight foot C bunch C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Six foot, seven foot, G7 eight foot C bunch C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. Chorus: C Beautiful bunch of G7 ripe ba-C-nana C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Hide the deadly, G7 black ta-C-rantula C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Six foot, seven foot, G7 eight foot C bunch C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. C Six foot, seven foot, G7 eight foot C bunch C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. Chorus: C Come, Mister tally man G7 tally me banana. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. Me say C Come, Mister tally man G7 tally me banana. C Daylight come an' me G7 wan’ go C home. Chorus: Finish crisply on last chord! The Lion Sleeps Tonight *Starting note : C ( 2nd string open) Intro: C F C G7 * Dee deedee dee dee, dee dee-dee dee, de-wee-um, um, a-weh (C) F C G7 Dee deedee dee dee, dee dee-dee dee, de-wee-um, um, a-weh Bridge: (C) F A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh C G7 A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh C F A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh C G7 A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh A-wim-a-weh-- *Starting note: ^ Verse 1: C F C G7 In the jun-gle, the migh-ty jun-gle , The li-on sleeps to-night; C F C G7 In the jungle, the mighty jungle, The li-on sleeps to-night Chorus: C F C G7 We-eee - ee-ee-ee- ee um, um, a-weh- C F C G7 We-eee - ee-ee-ee- ee um, um, a-weh- Verse 2: C F C G7 Near the vil-lage, the qui-et vil-lage, The li-on sleeps to-night C F C G7 Near the vil-lage, the qui-et vil-lage, The li-on sleeps to-night repeat Chorus.