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Ukulele Update: Songs I Can Play Without Looking at Chords

Playing for Gomi in Seoul.

Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
Beirut – Elephant Gun
Benny Bell – Shaving Cream
Bright Eyes – First Day of My Life
Cake – Sad Songs & Waltzes
Cole Porter – Every Time We Say Goodbye
Danielle Ate the Sandwich – Public Property
Harry and the Potters – I am a Wizard
Jonathan Coulton – Still Alive
Maroon 5 – Sunday Morning
Monty Python – Decomposing Composers
Nellie McKay – Mother of Pearl
Noah and the Whale – Five Years Time
Norah Jones – Turn Me On
Peter Pan the Musical – Distant Melody
The Proclaimers – Then I Met You
Radiohead – Creep
The Troggs – With a Girl Like You

Eighteen’s not bad. I can play others with 2-5 chords, but I need a paper with those chords in front of me to do it.

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October 16, 2011

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The Story of Failte

Boarding a flight from PDX to SJC, I sat in the window seat, waiting for the plane to fill. A man buckled in and settled into the aisle seat and then I realized- I was missing something important. I felt terrible, but asked the man to let me get by. I opened the overhead compartment, unzipped my backpack, and grabbed one little green thing. I closed everything up, swung back into my row, and felt relieved. What the man thought, I’ll never know. What I grabbed was Failte.

[and then suddenly…]

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July 29, 2011

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#2 2011

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January 11, 2011

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