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Practice and Song Book

Level One

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Motto:Music self played is

happiness self made.

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Contents

5. History

6. Ukulele diagram

7. Chord chart

8. Brother John C -

10. Wheels on the Bus F – C7

12. Mary Had a Little Lamb C – G7

14. Row, Row, Row Your Boat G – D7

16. Itsy Bitsy Spider A - D

18. I'm a Little Teapot C – F – G7

20. Baa, Baa Black Sheep F – Bb – C7

22. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star A – D – E7

24. If You're Happy and You Know It G – D7 - C

26. Happy B___day F – C7 - Bb

28. Oh Susannah C – G7 – F

30. This Old Man G – C – D7

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It’s not how loud you play…it’s how sweet you make it sound.

Joao Fernandes - Ukulele Inspiration

When the ship Ravenscrag arrived in Honolulu on the afternoon of August 23, 1879, it was carrying 135 men, 115 women, and 178 children, all immigrants from the economically depressed Portuguese island of Madeira some 7,000 miles and 123 days away. In celebration of their arrival, Joao Fernandes borrowed his friend's braguinha, jumped off the ship, and started playing folks songs from his native land on the wharf. The Hawaiians who came down to the dock were very impressed at the speed of this musicians' fingers as they danced across the fingerboard and they called the instrument "ukulele", which translates into English as "jumping flea".

Augusto Dias, also a passenger aboard the Ravenscrag set-up the first ukulele shop in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1884.. He added natural string to replace the metal wound strings of the braguinha – the ukulele as we know it today was born. The first printed reference to the word ukulele comes from the Hawaiian Gazette of 1895, and the abbreviation "uke" dates to 1891, from a travel book about Hawaii. By the 1930s the ukulele was more common in

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the American home than the piano – the Harmony music company sold 500,000 in 1931 alone. How to say Ukulele…

The mainland pronunciation is: you-kah-lay-leeThe original Hawaiian is: oo-koo-LEH-leh

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Chords used in Cal-Mum "Book One"

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Brother John (Played with only the C chord)

/ / /Are you sleeping,

/ / /Are you sleeping?

/ / /Brother John?

/ / /Brother John?

/ / / / / Morning bells are ringing,

/ / / / / Morning bells are ringing,

/ / /Ding ding dong,

/ / /Ding ding dong.

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Sign off sheet:_________________________

Please Check

I am able to form these chords

I can play this song while reading the chords

I can strum the chord on every beat

I can strum both up and down

I can play this song from memory

I have played this song for someone from memory

Student Signature ________________________

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The Wheels on the Bus  

    / / / / /   / /                               The wheels on the bus go round and round

      / /    /         / /    /                 Round and round, round and round

/ / / / /   / /                               The wheels on the bus go round and round

/ /     All through the town  2nd - The people on the bus go up and down…… 3rd - The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish…. 4th - The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep….. 5th - The money on the bus goes click, click, click….. 6th - The driver on the bus says “move on back”…..

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

/ /    / /  /   /  /   / /   / Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb

/ /    / /  /   /    /      / / / Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow

  / /    / /  /    /   / /    / /Everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went

/ /     / /  /    /    /       / / / Everywhere that Mary went, that lamb was sure to go

2nd - It followed her to school one day… which was against the rules

3rd - It made the children laugh and play… to see a lamb at school

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Row Row Row Your Boat

/ /     / /   /       /  Row row row your-boat gently down-the stream

      /           /       / / Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream

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Itsy Bitsy Spider

    /      /     /    /             /      /The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout

   /      /     /     /                /           /Down came the rain and washed the spider out

   /      /     /      /               /       /Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

    /      /     /    /             /      /So the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

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I'm a little teapot

                                  I'm a little teapot, short and stout

                               Here is my handle, here is my spout

                                              When I get all steamed up, hear me shout

                       Just tip me over and pour me out!

                                 I'm a clever teapot, yes it's true

                                 Here's an example of what I can do

                                       I can change my handle to my spout

                            Just tip me over and pour me out

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Baa baa black sheep

                                             Baa baa black sheep have you any wool

                        Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full

                                      One for my master and one for my dame

                                           One for the little boy who lives down the lane

                                             Baa baa black sheep have you any wool

                        Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star  

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are

Up a-bove the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky,

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are

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If You Are Happy

                                                          If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap clap)

                                                         If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap clap)

                                                                          If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it

                                                   If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap clap)

2nd- If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

3rd - If you’re happy and you know it shout hooray, (Hooray!)

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Happy B____day

Happy B____day to you,

Happy B____day to you,

Happy B____day dear __ ___,

Happy B____day to you,

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Oh! Susanna

I- come from A-labama with-

a banjo on my knee,

I'm going to Louisi-a-na,

my true love for to see.

Oh! Susanna, Oh don't you cry for me,

For I come from A-labama

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with- my banjo on my knee.

This old Man

This old man, he played one,

He played knick-knack on my drum

With a knick-knack paddy-whack,

Give the dog a bone

This old man came rolling home.

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KEEPCalm

And

Uke On

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