Riotous Uke Ladies
Breakaway - Kelly clarkson
Am G C Fadd9 Am G Fadd9
Am G C Fadd9
Am G Fadd9
Verse 1
Am G
Grew up in a small town
C Fadd9
And when the rain would fall down
Am G Fadd9
I'd just stare out my window
Am G
Dreaming of what could be
C Fadd9
And if I'd end up happy
Am G Fadd9
I would pray
[Verse 2]
Am G
Trying hard to reach out
C Fadd9
But when I tried to speak out
Am G Fadd9
Felt like no one could hear me
Am G
Wanted to belong here
C Fadd9
But something felt so wrong here
Am G Fadd9
So I prayed
[Pre-Chorus]
Am G D F G
I could break away
[Chorus]
C G
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
Am F
I'll do what it takes 'til I touch the sky
C G
And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change
Am G Fadd9
And breakaway
C G
Out of the darkness and into the sun
Am F
But I won't forget all the ones that I love
C G
I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change
Am G Fadd9
And breakaway
Am G C Fadd9
Am G Fadd9
[Verse 3]
Am G
Wanna feel the warm breeze
C Fadd9
Sleep under a palm tree
Am G Fadd9
Feel the rush of the ocean
Am G
Get onboard a fast train
C Fadd9 Am G Fadd9
Travel on a jet plane, far a__way__
Am G D F G
And breakaway
[Chorus]
(Bridge)
G
Buildings with a hundred floors
Csus4
Swinging around revolving doors
G Csus4
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me, but
G Csus4
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
D F G
Fly away, breakaway
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Am G Fadd9
Breakaway
Am G Fadd9
Breakaway
Down is my Home by Claire Thompson
(A rewrite of Cornwall my home by Fisherman’s Friends)
Verse 1]
F C
I've stood on the Floodgates in the sun's evening glow
G Gsus2
Took the coastal pathway, where the ferries come and go
F C
Saw the coastguard scramble and the waves beat them back
G C Csus2 C
Hear seagulls squawking, as the North Sea wind blows
[Chorus]harmonies
Fadd9 C
And no one will ever move me from this land
G
Until my last days I will, roam this pleasant land
Gsus2 Fadd9 C
For this is my Eden, I’m never alone
G C Csus2 C
For this is my county, and Down is my home
[Verse 2]
Fadd9 C
I've left childish footsteps in the Ballyholme sands
G Gsus2 G
Swam sea waves at Groomsport, and settled my scorns
Fadd9 C
I've climbed Scrabo’s hillside, ascended the tower
G C Csus2 C
And gazed on lough waters as the planes get airbourne
[Chorus] harmonies
Fadd9 C
And no one will ever move me from this land
G
Until my last days I will, roam this pleasant land
Gsus2 Fadd9 C
For this is my Eden, I’m never alone
G C Csus2 C
For this is my County and Down is my home
[Verse 3]
Fadd9 C
Masts clink down in Bangor, may the town rise again
G Gsus2 G
Get a Guinness in fealties, and join in the song
Fadd9 C
For Down is my County, and I'll tell you why
G C Csus2 C
Because I was born here and here I shall die
[Chorus]harmonies
Fadd9 C
And no one will ever move me from this land
C G
Until my last days I will, roam this pleasant land
Gsus2 Fadd9 C
For this is my Eden, I'm never alone
G C Csus2 C
For this is my County and Down is my home
[Outro] just voices
For this is our County and this is our home
Dream
Everly Brothers
Intro:
[C] [Am] [F] [G7]
[C] [Am] [F] [G7]
[C] Drea-ea-ea-ea- [Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[C] Drea-ea-ea-ea- [Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[Verse 1]
When [C] I want [Am] you [Dm] in my [G7] arms
When [C] I want [Am] you [Dm] and all your [G7] charms
When [C] ever I [Am] want you [F] all I have to [G7] do
Is [C] drea-ea-ea-ea- [Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[Verse 2]
When [C] I feel [Am] blue [Dm] in the [G7] night
And [C] I need [Am] you [Dm] to hold me [G7] tight
When [C] ever I [Am] want you [F] all I have to [G7] do
Is [C] drea-ea-[F]ea-[C]eam [C7]
[Bridge]
[F] I can make you mine [Em] taste your lips of wine
[Dm] Anytime [G7] night or [C] day [C7]
[F] Only trouble is [Em] gee whiz
I’m [D7] dreaming my life [G7] away
[Verse 4]
I [C] need you [Am] so [Dm] that I could [G7] die
I [C] love you [Am] so [Dm] and that is [G7] why
When [C] ever I [Am] want you [F] all I have to [G7] do is
[C] Drea-ea-ea-ea- [Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[C] Drea-ea- [F] ea- [C] eam [C7]
[Bridge]
[F] I can make you mine [Em] taste your lips of wine
[Dm] Anytime [G7] night or [C] day [C7]
[F] Only trouble is [Em] gee whiz
I’m [D7] dreaming my life [G7] away
Outro:
I [C] need you [Am] so [Dm] that I could [G7] die
I [C] love you [Am] so [Dm] and that is [G7] why
When [C] ever I [Am] want you [F] all I have to [G7] do is
[C] Drea-ea-ea-ea-[Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[C] Drea-ea-ea-ea-[Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[C] Drea-ea-ea-ea-[Am] eam [F] dream dream [G7] dream
[C*] Dream
Facing West by The Staves
Capo: 4 (on uke, as well)
[Verse 1]
C Em C
A room with a window facing west
C
Towards the sea
C Em C
You, with your hands across your chest
C
Facing me
[Chorus]
Dm G
Sing me a song, your voice is like silver and
Dm G C Em C
I don’t think that I can do this anymore
[Verse 2]
C Em C
I’ll take the high road that he walked
C
Once before
C Em C
You sit and watch me as I come
C
Through the door
[Chorus]
Dm G
Sing me a song, your voice is like silver and
Dm G
I don't think that I can do this anymore.
[Bridge] Whistle and add ooo’s on 3rd line
C Em C
C
C Em C
C
[Chorus]
Dm G
Sing me a song, your voice is like silver and
Dm G
I don’t think that I can do this anymore
Dm G Dm
Show me the path down to the shoreline ‘cause
Dm G C Em C
I don’t know if I can do this anymore
[Outro]
C Em C
A room with a window facing west.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Intro + Kazoo:
[C] [C] [Am] [Am] [F] [G]
Verse 1:
[C] I come home in the morning light
My [Am] mother says "When you gonna live your life right?"
[F] Oh mother dear, we're not the fortunate ones
And [Am] Girls, they [G] wanna have [F] fun
Oh [Am] Girls just [G] wanna have [C] fun
Instrumental + Kazoo:
[C] [C] [Am] [Am] [F] [G]
Verse 2:
[C] The phone rings in the middle of the night
My [Am] father yells "What you gonna do with your life?"
[F] Oh, daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But [Am] Girls, they [G] wanna have [F] fun
Oh [Am] Girls just [G] wanna have
|Chorus:
|[C] That's all they really want, [Am] some fun
|[C] When the working day is done
|Oh [Am] Girls they [G] wanna have [F] fun
|Oh [Am] Girls just [G] wanna have [C]
Instrumental + Kazoo:
[C] [C] [Am] [Am] [F] [G]
Verse 3:
[C] Some boys take a beautiful girl
And [Am] hide her away from the rest of the world
[F] I wanna be the one to walk in the sun
Oh [Am] Girls they [G] wanna have [F] fun
Oh [Am] Girls just [G] wanna have
|Chorus:
|[C] That's all they really want, [Am] some fun [Am]
|[C] When the working day is done
|Oh [Am] Girls they [G] wanna have [F] fun
|Oh [Am] Girls just [G] wanna have
Outro:
[C] Girls they wanna have [Am] fun...girls... they wanna have [C] fun
[C] Girls they wanna have [Am] fun...girls...
[C] They just wanna [Am] they just wanna, [C] they just want [Am] they just wanna
[C] They just wanna [Am] they just wanna, [C] they just want [Am] they just wanna
[Slowing]
[Am] Ohhhh girls, just [G] wanna have fun [C]
I am my mothers savage daughter - Wyndreth Berginsdottirs
2/3 Ukes and Strong Voices
Helen
Am C G Am
I am my mother’s savage daughter,
Am C G Am
The one who runs barefoot, cursing sharp stones.
Am C G Am
I am my mother’s savage daughter,
Am E G Am
I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice.
Altogether
Am C G Am
My mother’s child is a savage
Am C G Am
She looks for her omens in the colors of stones,
Am C G Am
In the faces of cats, In the fall of feathers,
Am E G Am
In the dancing of fire and the curve of old bones.
Altogether
Am C G Am
My mother’s child dances in darkness,
Am C G Am
she sings heathen songs by the light of the moon,
Am C G Am
And watches the stars, and renames the planets,
Am E G Am
And dreams she can reach them with a song and a broom.
No Ukes just drum/tap
Altogether
Am C G Am
I am my mother’s savage daughter,
Am C G Am
The one who runs barefoot, cursing sharp stones.
Am C G Am
I am my mother’s savage daughter,
Am E G Am
I will not cut my hair, I will not lower my voice.
Sing in rounds
Am C G Am
We are our mother’s savage daughters,
Am C G Am
The ones who run barefoot, cursing sharp stones.
Am C G Am
We are our mother’s savage daughter,
Am E G Am
We will not cut our hair, we will not lower our voice.
Mary’s Pub - Amble
Intro]
G C D G C D
G
She put it right between my lips
C
And I bit down with the light
G
And I asked her had she anything
D
She handed me a light
G
And with that light I took a drag
C
And I watched the world go by
G
You were mine and I was yours
D G
And our limit was the sky
[Chorus]
C G
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
D
She asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
G
Well we cantered on by the statue
C
Where once Phil Lynott stood
G D
Met by his scobie being hoisted outside Mary's Pub
G
He'd never seen the like before
C
Rare seemed so daft
G D G
And the cobbles were lit up by the enchantment of your laugh
[Repeat Chorus]
G C
Well we watched the buskers play a tune in lower Grafton Street
G D
And I tried to grab your finger but I wasn't so discreet
G C
You smiled and braced my hand and pulled me into some old bar
G D G
And we drank a drop and we twirled and talked about our lives so far
[Repeat Chorus]
G
Well he swallowed down his last drop
C
And began to feel the heat
G D
And he gestured to the bar man that it was his time to leave
G C
With a cap upon his head he thought of home in Skibbereen
G D G
Said we were the finest couple that his eyes had ever seen
[Repeat Chorus]
[Bridge]
G C G D G C G D G
G C
And as she boards her plane back to her home in Amsterdam
G D
She'll study for the year, before turning to her land
G C
She said she loves a man and he is stationed far away
G D G
With him her precious love, she says, forever it will stay
[Chorus]
C G
And we watched time go by
Well I told her ask me anything
D
She asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Octopus’s Garden - The Beatles
Intro:
[C] [C] [C] [C]
Verse 1:
[C] I'd like to be... [Am] under the sea
In an [F] octopus’ garden in the [G7] shade
[C] He'd let us in... [Am] knows where we've been
In his [F] octopus’s garden in the [G7] shade
Verse 2:
[Am] I'd ask my frie-e-ends to come and seeeeeee...
[F] An octopus’ [G7] garden with me! [stop]
[C] I'd like to be... [Am] under the sea,
In an [F] octopus’s [G7] garden in the [C] shade
Verse 3:
[C] We would be warm... [Am] below the storm
In our [F] little hideaway beneath the [G7] waves
[C] Resting our head... [Am] on the sea bed
In an [F] octopus’s garden near a [G7] cave
Verse 4:
[Am] We would sing and dance around
[F] Because we know... we [G7] can't be found! [stop]
[C] I'd like to be... [Am] under the sea...
In an [F] octopus’s [G7] garden... in the [C] shade
Verse 5:
[C] We would shout... [Am] and swim about
The [F] coral... that lies beneath the [G7] waves
[C] Oh what joy... [Am] for every girl and boy
[F] Knowing... they're happy and they're [G7] safe
Outro:
[Am] We would be so happy, you and me!
[F] No one there to tell us [G7] what to do... [stop]
[C] I'd like to be... [Am] under the sea
In an [F] octopus’s [G7] garden... with [C] you
In an [F] octopus’s [G7] garden... with [C] you
In an [F] octopus’s [G7] garden... with [C] you
Outro:
[C - Double Strum] plus cymbals
Riotous 1 by Rose Betts
C
I never got the invites to parties at the pool
C G
Nobody sent me a valentine, When they were going 'round at school
Am F C G
I didn’t have a prom date Wasn’t skinny wasn’t cool
C G C
So I never got the invites to the pool
C F C
I never got the invites To the common after class
C G
The girls the boys called pretty Tore my confidence apart
Am F C G
They didn’t like my clothes They used to point at them and laugh
C F C
So I was never at the common after class
[Chorus]
C
They have their hot girl summer
F C
With their hot girl friends
Am
Drinking hot girl wine
F C
With their hot girl men
C F C
And though I might not be hot enough for hot girl things
Am F G C
Turns out I wrote a song that the hot girls sing
F C G Am
Da da da da, da da da-da da
F C G
Da da da da, da da
F C G Am
Da da da da, da da da-da da
F G C
Da da da da-da da da
C F C
And I never get the invites To parties in the hills
C G
The girls who peaked in high school Decorate the window sills
Am F C G
But everybody lives inside a world The outcasts build
C F C
Though we’re never at the parties in the hills
[Chorus]
(Acapella with clapping on the off beat)
Outro
N.C.
They have their hot girl summer
N.C.
With their hot girl friends
N.C.
Drinking hot girl wine
N.C.
With their hot girl men
C F C
And though I might not be hot enough for hot girl things
Am F G C
Turns out I wrote a song that the hot girls sing
The Swimming Song [G] - Loudon Wainwright
[intro]
G
D Em
Em C
D Em
D7 G
[G]This summer I went swimming
D Em
This summer I might have drowned
C
But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
D Em
And I moved my arms around.
D7 G
I moved my arms around.
G
This summer I swam in the ocean
D Em
Swam in the swimming pool
C
Salt in my wounds, chlorine in my eyes,
D Em
I'm a self-destructive fool,
D7 G
Self-destructive fool.
|[Break]
|G
|D Em
|Em C
|D Em
|D7 G
G
This summer I did the backstroke,
D Em
And you know that thats not all.
C
I did the breast stroke and the butterfly,
D Em
And the old Australian crawl,
D7 G
The old Australian crawl.
G
This summer I swam in a public place
D Em
and a reservoir to boot,
C
At the latter I was informal,
D Em
At the former I wore my suit,
D7 G
I wore my swimming suit.
[Break]
G
This summer I did swan dives and
D Em
Jack knives for you all.
C
And once when you weren't looking
D Em
I did a cannonball
D7 G
I did a cannonball.
[G]This summer I went swimming
D Em
This summer I might have drowned
C
But I held my breath and I kicked my feet
D Em
And I moved my arms around.
D7 G
I moved my arms around.
[Break]