#292 - Jingle Bells

Song - Jingle Bells

Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

#288 - It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Song - It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas
Artist - Meredith Willson
Chord Source - http://ahabit.com/song7/

It's taken me a while this year, but I finally feel like I'm getting into Christmas!

#282 - Ain't She Sweet/5 Foot Medly

I first heard this version of these songs by Christopher John Phillips on a ukulele Facebook group.  He really does an amazing job with it, super impressed by the second round!  These have to be two of my favorite songs to play on the ukulele, what a great idea to string them together!

Here is his original version:

#281 - I Fall To Pieces

Song - I Fall to Pieces
Artist - Patsy Cline
Chord source - http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/patsy_cline/i_fall_to_pieces_ver2_crd.htm

I think my voice finally warmed up around the second verse, man I'm out of practice!

#260 - So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh

Song - Song Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh
Artist - Woody Guthrie

Another Woody song! This 3/4 rhythm was a real challenge for me today, not sure why!

#255 - Landslide

Song - Landslide
Artist - Stevie Nicks
Chord Source - http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/d/dixie_chicks/landslide_ver3_crd.htm

Thank you Megan for finally doing a song with me!

#250 - Beer

Song - Beer
Artist - Reel Big Fish
Chord Source - http://ukudaily.blogspot.com/2012/07/249-take-your-love-with-me.html

This was a blast to play with my dad, my brother and John! We worked on a lot of different songs but settled on this one. I hope to do more!

#237 - It Ain't Me Babe

Song - It Ain't Me Babe
Artist - Bob Dylan
Chord source - http://www.e-chords.com/chords/johnny-cash/it-aint-me-babe
I have been getting a lot of requests on youtube for the chords I use for songs. For some reason it won't let me post links in the comments, so I'm going to start posting them here. Then when I forget how to play songs I can just look them up on here again!

#220 - Honky Tonk Girl

Song - Honky Tonk Girl Artist - Loretta Lynn Love this song!

#205 - Jesus Walking on the Water

Song - Jesus Walking on the Water
Artist - The Violent Femms

#199 - Shaving Cream

Song - Shaving Cream
Artist - Benny Bell

Heard this song for the first time at that workshop a few weeks ago, so silly and fun!

#187 - Good Old Mountain Dew

Song - Good Old Mountain Dew
Artist - Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Maybe this was written before Mountain Dew could melt mice carcasses.

#184 - New Soul

Song - New Soul
Artist - Yael Naïm

Apparently I'm bad at saying "lalala" over and over. Who knew!?

#182 - Ghost Riders in the Sky

Song - Ghost Riders in the Sky
Artist - Stan Jones

This song holds a dear place in my heart because it reminds me a being a kid and listening to the radio show "Ghost Riders in the Sky". That show meant staying up a little later, listening to silly radio dramas, and good music. When you don't watch much TV as a kid a radio show will do just fine!

#179 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Song - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Artist - Cyndi Lauper

I'm on an 80s kick lately!

#173 - I Will Always Love You

Song - I Will Always Love You (abridged version)
Artist - Dolly Parton

I love this song so much, sorry, not the Whitney version, the Dolly Parton version. I couldn't bring myself to do the talking part.

#156 - Tip Toe Through the Tulips

Song - Tip Toe Through the Tulips
Artist - Al Dubin (lyrics) and Joe Burke (music)
Theme - A Flowering Plant

I have no idea what's happening on the bridge of this song, so I made it up :)

#155 - Baby Beluga

Song - Baby Beluga
Artist - Raffi

I thought I was going out on a limb to ask my sister in law Carrie if she would do a song with me on the blog (I realize not everyone is as big a ham as I am and would rather not be all over the internet singing). I was so excited that she not only wanted to do it, but offered up a Raffi song! How is it possible that I haven't done a Raffi song yet? Without discussing it we delegated my brother to play guitar and my Dad happened to stop by on his way home and hook up the bass so he could play along too. And voila! That's how you make a family band! Lucy helped too, I suppose.

Here'e a bonus video of Lucy being adorable.



This is actually yesterdays video but I was out visiting family and couldn't post it, sorry!

#153 - Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Song - Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Artist - Leo Friedman and Beth S. Whitson

Short and sweet song tonight as I have about a billion hula hoops that need makin!

#152 - I am Weary let me Rest

Song - I am Weary let me Rest
Artist - Pete Kuukendall

Here's a real bummer of a song for ya! I think I'll be on a bit of a country/bluegrass kick for a while after this weekend, so much great stuff out there!