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Join us on Facebook, and hopefully at a jam! We meet the second Saturday of the month, 11am, at the Portage MI Marshall Music behind Crossroads Mall. Hope to see you soon!
On behalf of the Kalamazoo Ukulele Strummers I would like to invite you to a luau! August 11, strum is at 11am and luau to follow, sponsored by our hosts at Marshall Music. Marshall is located behind Crossroads Mall at 951 Mall Drive Portage, MI 49024. Hope to see you there!
I have looked at the Fleabag songbook. Of course I know the chorus to all the songs but for many of them I don't know the verse melody.
I have the same problem. But often someone else in a group does so they just lead the singing bit. Last time I played at Marshall Music one of the sales girls led a song for us because I could play but not sing it.
As a hold-out who doesn't use Facebook, is there any general information needed before showing up for the strum.
I saw the mention of the Fleabag Songbook. Is that the source being used for songs?
2day is the day. See ya in a few.
Thanks to all who came, and be sure to post pics/video here or on the FB page!
So a, Saturday the eighth at eleven? Same Bat place, same Bat time?
I'm actually printing sheet music right now! Eventually I'd like to get a club songbook together.
4.5 hour drive, doable every so often. you are lucky you are close to Bells Brewery.
Also being the second Saturday helps since mine is the first Saturday. I will not be at this one, but maybe October?
That would be cool. And hopefully I can make it to yours next month.
Bell's is right downtown, so only about 20 min from our jam site. Might as well come make a day of it, Kalamazoo is a great place with lots to do!
Cool, any cheap hotels near by?
Yup. :) Just avoid the Knight's Inn.
If you are flying solo, you could grab me on the way by, and we could share expenses. I'm about six miles from I 94... Just a thought.
Sounds like we're gonna have a big UUer party going on! Once we fix a date, I'll rustle up some other entertainment for the day!
Wahtcha think about going to Tim's next Saturday, Miss Freeda?
I am from Southern California and will be in the Kalamazoo area visiting my wife's father. May retire to Vicksburg, MI in acouple years. Are there any Uke clubs there? I will be in Vicksburg 10/26 to 11/7.
Check out our website, there's links on the right for uke jams and other jams. http://kalamazukes.blogspot.com/ There is a ton of uking and jamming to be done in Michigan.
How far is Gerald Ross from you, Freeda? He'd be amazing entertainment, and instructional, too. His contact and Press Kit is linked here.
I believe he lives around Ann Arbor? That's about 1 1/2 hrs east or so.
Freeda, will your new group be strumming, or get into chorusing of tunes? What do I mean...PeeWee and Lori and Janeray's group in SoCal plays differently than most groups I have heard of. They play parts of songs, divide them, and conquer. Some pick, while some strum, and they actually work on tunes rather than just toss out a buch of new three-chord tunes each time. You might ask any of them about it, but seems successful (but would need to have intermediate players in the group, for the most part, I think).
Good luck on your new group. You look like a nice bunch of uke enthusiasts, from your photo.
I sure adore GErald Ross' stuff and instruction.
I should message them to see what they could share with me. I think that sounds like a great way to make the group more challenging. We have primarily intermediate players, I would say. No real newbs.
I took a workshop with Gerald last spring at Mighty Uke Day. He's a nice guy.
Thought I'd give this thread a bump. No one seems to love it anymore.
Maybe give it a bump before the event next time. I'd like to try to make it sometime.
The website is www.kalamazukes.com. For those of you who don't have Facebook.
So it's been like six months since anyone has posted here? And it was me then.
So what do ya think, just you and me on this thread?
[G] "Swim" said the [G6] mamma fishie [C] "Swim if you [C#dim] can"
And they [D7] swam and they [C7] swam right [D7] over the [G] dam.
[G] Boop boop [G6] dit-tem dat-tem [C] what-tem [D7] Chu!
[G] Boop boop [G6] dit-tem dat-tem [C] what-tem [C#dim] Chu!
[G] "Stop" said the [G6] mamma fishie "or [C] you'll get [D7] lost"
And they [D7] swam and they [C7] swam right [D7] out to the [G] sea.
Chorus…And they swam and they swam right out to the sea.
We'll [G] swim in the [G6] sea till the [C] day is [D7] done"
Till [D7] all of a [C7] sudden they [D7] saw a [G] shark!
Chorus…Till all of a sudden they saw a shark!
[G] "Help" cried the [G6] little fishies [C] "Look at the [D7] whales!"
And they [D7] swam and they [C7] swam back [D7] over the [G] dam.
Chorus…And they swam and they swam back over the dam.
My grandmother use to sing me this song when I was little. I was just telling my wife yesterday how I could not find the chords to it and here you posted them for me! Thanks Rob!
[Gm7] Weeping on the faraway [C7] shore.
[G7] All to my[C7]self a[F]lone.
Love! :D Hopefully we will get some more ideas going. I have prob a dozen songs, so I need to come up with some more.
In an [F] Octopus's Garden in the [G] shade.
In his [F] Octopus's Garden in the [G] shade.
An [F] Octopus's Garden with [G] me.
In an [F] Octopus's [G] Garden in the [C] shade.
In our [F] little hideaway beneath the [G] waves.
In an [F] Octopus's Garden near a [G] cave.
[F] Because we know we [G] can't be found.
[F] The coral that lies beneath the [G] waves.
[F] Knowing they're happy and they're [G] safe.
[Am] We would be so happy, you and me.
[F] No one there to tell us [G] what to do.
When [A] I get off of this mountain, you [D] know where I want to go?
[A] Straight down the [D] Mississippi River to the [E7] Gulf of Mexico.
[A] To Lake Charles, Louisianna, little [D] Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
[A] She told me just to [D]come on by if there's [E7] anything that she could do.
[A] Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
[D] If I spring a leak, she mends me.
[E7] I don't have to speak, she defends me.
A [F#m] drunkard's dream if I [G] ever did see one.
[A] Good luck had just stung me, to the [D] race track I did go.
[A] She bet on [D] one horse to win and I [E7] bet on another to show.
The [A] odds were in my favor, I [D] had them five to one.
[A] That nag to win came [D] round the track, [E7] sure enough she had won.
I [A] took up all of my winnings and I [D] gave little Bessie half.
[A] She tore it up and [D] threw it in my face [E7] just for a laugh.
[A] There's one thing in the whole wide world [D] I sure would like to see.
[A] That's when that little [D] love of mine dips her [E7] doughnut in my tea.
[A] Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we had [D] Spike Jones on the box.
[A] She says, "I [D] can't take the way he sings, but I [E7] love to hear him talk."
Now [A] that just gave my heart a throb to the [D] bottom of my feet.
And I [A] swore as I took [D] nother pull, my [E7] Bessie can't be beat.
[A] And this living [D] on the road is [E7] getting pretty old.
So I [A] guess I'll call up my big mama, [D] tell her I'll be rolling in.
But you [A] know, deep down, I'm [D] kind of tempted to [E7] go and see my Bessie again.
What is next months theme?
OK, Here is the crew yesterday.