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.

For the curious the chords are Dm Bb Am G.

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

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.

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.

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

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…..

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.