After endlessly playing the Hawaiian turnaround this week, it was inevitable I’d end up playing Ukulele Lady at some point and drag out Petty Booka’s version. I went over to Alligator Boogaloo to check their tab for the intro and found I was playing it differently to the way they have it tabbed. I reckon this is how it goes:
Their variation on the Hawaiian turnaround starts at bar 7.
You can download an mp3 of the introduction of Ukulele Lady on this page.
Barbara: You’re welcome. Good luck getting it together.
Uh… I can’t read notes.
Arianna: There’s a guide to reading tab here.
Hi I just started playing the uke and I was wondering what kind of strumming does this song use. Is it down up down up?
This sucks theres no letters to learn on so how are you going to learn ?? ;p
Lataire: It’s tab. There’s a guide to reading tab here.
where is the rest of the song?
Thought it was a good bit of tab, listened to the muppets play it on YouTube for the rhythm etc and just played this simple intro. Think your sites great, never picked up a uke before and I’m learning loads of little tunes. Thank You.
Tracy: Thanks very much. Glad you liked it.
Take no notice of detractors. You do a wonderful job. Rumpole x
Can you give some tips on strumming for this song?? I’m just learning to play!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I was searching for ukulele chords for John Prine songs and you know how it is, stumbled upon your site and ukulele lady. It is very exciting to have audio align with written chords as well as -oh joy, having notation- and words. Now I might actually learn a couple of songs. Thanks again.