God Save The Queen

Moselele are off on a tour playing at street parties and pubs on Sunday 3 June. Find out more on our website or the Facebook fan page.

We won’t be playing this one though.

God Save The Queen
Sex Pistols

Chords used in this song
Ab 10xx
A 2100
D 2225
C# 1114
Eb 3336
E 4447
B 4322
F# 3121

Intro:
[Ab][A] x5
[A] [D][C#][D] x3
[Ab][A] x2

[A] God Save The Queen [D][C#][D]
[A] the fascist regime [D][C#][D]
[A] they made you a moron [D][C#][D]
a [Ab][A]potential H bomb. [Ab][A]

[A] God Save The Queen [D][C#][D]
[A] she ain’t no human being. [D][C#][D]
[A] And there is no future [D][C#][D]
In [Ab][A] England’s dreaming [Ab][A]

[E] Don’t be [B]told what [Eb]you [E] want [Eb] you [E] want
[E] don’t be [B] told what [Eb] you [E] need.
[E] There’s no [B] future [Eb] no [E] future [Eb][E]
[E] no [B] future for [E] you.

[A] God Save The Queen [D][C#][D]
[A] We mean it maam [D][C#][D]
[A] We love our Queen [D][C#][D]
[Ab]God [A] saves… [Ab][A]

[A] God Save The Queen [D][C#][D]
[A] ‘cos tourists are money [D][C#][D]
[A] and our figurehead [D][C#][D]
is [Ab][A] not what she seems [Ab][A]

[A] God save history [D][C#][D]
[A] God save your mad parade [D][C#][D]
[A] oh lord God have mercy[D][C#][D]
all [Ab][A] crimes are paid [Ab][A]

[E] When there’s no [B]future how[Eb]can[E] there [Eb] be [E] sin
[E] We’re the [B] flowers in the [Eb] dust-[E]-bin
[E] We’re the [B] poison in your [Eb] Hu-[E]-man [Eb]ma-[E]-chine
[E] We’re the [B] future, [E] your future

[A] God Save The Queen [D][C#][D]
[A] We mean it maam [D][C#][D]
[A] We love our queen [D][C#][D]
[Ab]God [A] saves.. [Ab][A]

[F#] [B] x3
[F#] [E]

[A] God Save The Queen [D][C#][D]
[A] We mean it maam [D][C#][D]
[A] And There is no future [D][C#][D]
In [Ab][A] England’s dreaming [Ab][A]

[D]No [C#] fu-[B]-ture
[D]No [C#] fu-[B]-ture
[D]No [C#] fu-[B]-ture [A] for you
[D]No [C#] fu-[B]-ture
[D]No [C#] fu-[B]-ture
[D]No [C#] fu-[B]-ture [A] for me
[Ab][A]no future [Ab][A] no future for me.

performance notes – There are some quick changes from one chord to another. Easy version is just to play the last chord of those changes. You can tell where these are because the chords are right next to each other. eg [Ab][A] or [D][C#][D]
Sorry, I didn’t have chord pictures for some of these but the numbers are just the frets each string should be fretted at from gCEA – you know what I mean.

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Corktown Ukulele Jam perform Big Bottom by Spinal Tap

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Lick My Love Pump

To celebrate the fact that it’s Nigel Tufnel day, 11/11/11, here’s a recording I’ve just made of Lick My Love Pump on the uke.  It’s in Dm, the saddest of all the keys.

For the curious the chords are Dm Bb Am G.

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Big Muffin Serious Band – Learn to Play

The Big Muffin Serious Band have a great new way to learn to play the ukulele with their play along videos.

Discovered these via fellow New Zealanders, the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra’s Facebook page.

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Spookelele – Tonight, Prince of Wales

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Tonight is Spookelele, the Moselele Hallowe’en special. We made a new songbook and everything especially.
Amongst songs like Bobby “Boris” Picket and the Crypt Kickers’ Monster Mash, Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer and Blue Öyster Cult’s (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, all of which we know will work, we’ve sorted out a full 9 minute version of Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell. It’s going to be epic. Whether that is epic epic or #epicfail remains to be seen. You should probably come along and find out. Do print out a songbook first though. Fancy dress is encouraged.
Join us, 8pm in the Prince Of Wales.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Corktown Ukulele Jam

I do keep an eye on what my friends at the Corktown Ukulele Jam in Toronto get up to. Last week’s meet was their Hallowe’en night and I was stoked to see this brilliant version of Bela Lugosi’s Dead in my feeds this morning. Really impressed by the sonic manipulations of David Olson, the Robert Fripp of the uke.

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Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Great uke cover of the Bauhaus classic by Gus and Fin.

Anybody got a clue what they’re playing though?
Think the descending bit is descending barre C (5433) B (4322) A (2100)

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How not to spend Halloween

At home, alone, learning to play John Carpenter’s creepy Halloween theme. It’s the odd time signature and that Devil’s Interval that does it.
Same goes for Tubular Bells’ use in the Exorcist (probably)

And as I write this the cat who was curled up on the bed suddenly sprang up alert, staring at the light fitting. The light shade is made of lots of shell disks suspended from a frame and these started to tinkle, but the window wasn’t open and there wasn’t a breeze…..

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It’s all about the right-hand technique

I may have been wrong about George Formby. His innuendo laden songs still aren’t really my bag but thanks to Frank Skinner’s BBC Four documentary that was on last week I do have a new-found respect for his technique. He had an incredible right hand apparently, and no that’s not more innuendo.
Still a few days to catch the programme on iPlayer.

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The Motherlode of Ukulele Songbooks

As spotted by @ilovefizzypop from Hull Ukulele Group, somebody has been building a library of songbooks from uke groups all over the place, and put them all in one handy place.

Links to sources, could be better and what it really needs is a master index.  Searching the web for a uke version of a particular song can often be a bit tricky because a lot are tucked away within PDFs like these, beyond the range of the Googlespiders.

All your ukulele songbooks are belong to us.

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