Christmas Ukulele: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

December 16, 2007

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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Chords)

This is one of my all time favourite Christmas songs. A huge number of people have done this song but my favourites are Coldplay’s (in the video) and Patsy Monteleone’s version on MUD.

The chords in my version are loosely based on Patsy’s version – and, gosh, there are a lot of chords in it.

Some of the chord changes in this song are gorgeous. The change between C and Am7 is a fairly common one. You could play Am7 with all open strings but this one is much more effective. The chord is just the Gm shape moved up two frets (with the open G string giving the 7th note). It just goes to show what a huge difference the chord inversion you use can make.

The other stand-out chord changes come from very small changes in chords like the Em – Em maj7 – G progression. There’s only a difference between each chord of one fret of one note but it’s very effective.

EXPECTING TO FIND CHORDS/TABS? Try clicking where it says the name of the song in red under the video.
Written by Woodshed · Filed Under Chords, Christmas 
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11 Responses to “Christmas Ukulele: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”

  1. Flukie Uke on December 19th, 2007 12:55 pm

    This one was great. Thanks. A little challenging for my level for it keeps sounding better all the time.

  2. Woodshed on December 19th, 2007 8:46 pm

    Keep practicing, Flukie. You’ll get there eventually.

  3. Cheerful One (Emma) on December 20th, 2007 6:35 pm

    Ooh, that’s lovely. Thanks :)

  4. Woodshed on December 21st, 2007 6:44 pm

    Glad you like it, Emma.

  5. DanV on October 20th, 2008 1:18 pm

    Video is no longer available :o(

  6. Vincent on November 20th, 2008 3:16 pm

    I have a Christmas request Woodshed, Dan Fogelbergs Same Old Lang Syne

  7. Woodshed on November 20th, 2008 11:05 pm

    Vincent: Any link?

  8. Vincent on November 21st, 2008 3:14 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYIWeow6W14&feature=related

    Its a piano but i think it would sound good on a uke

  9. Woodshed on November 21st, 2008 8:07 pm

    Vincent: There are chords for it on Chordie.

  10. dahlia on December 1st, 2008 5:08 am

    is this for the standar GCEA tuning?

  11. Woodshed on December 3rd, 2008 8:40 pm

    dahlia: Sure is.

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