A new song for Sunday April 14th
Wouldn’t it be good if we could play some songs without staring at bits of paper. We’ll try and find some songs suitably simple to make this possible and introduce them into our playing…
So here is the first one, it’s called: Mama Don’t Like It by Smiley Lewis
You can hear it and play along on Youtube or buy it on Itunes etc.
The chords are a simple 12 bar blues variation:
| C | | | |
| F | | C | |
| G7 | tacet | C | |
We’ll change the words in the verses (the types of music ‘they don’t like’) to:
Jump, blues, bop, uke
So now you need to memorise all of that – no cheating, no bits of paper!
Let’s see how it goes on Sunday…
Steve,
Apart from the alternate version of ‘Mama don’t allow’, as ‘Back in the USSR’
goes down a storm; I think ‘I saw her standing there’ would be a really good rocker to follow up with. It always gets everyone singing at weddings etc.
Cheers,
Jim Lad
I have to agree that “i saw her standing there” would be a good one
Steve Williams
Oh very well – it’s the next one I do,
but I think we’ll have to take it down to key of C at least for the high bit…
F7 Well my heart went boom
As I crossed the room
And I held her hand in G7 mine F7
How about “I’m the Urban Spaceman” by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band?
could throw in a few kazoos?
Steve Williams
Yup, it’s on the big list, I’ll move it up a few places!