Guacamole Ukulele Song (Chords)
June 26, 2008
Lauren and Lena – Guacamole Ukulele Song (Chords)
YouTube’s little ukulele video feature made me reassess this song. I’d skipped over it fairly quickly the first time round – there are a lot of ukulele videos to watch – but I shouldn’t have, it’s a damn fine song (no such change of heart over Where Your Scar Is though) and it’s already inspired its own ukulele tribute parody.
For this song Lauren and Lena are tuned to DGBE: baritone/guitar tuning – five frets lower than the standard ukulele tuning. Other than that, the chords are pretty easy. Much easier than they make them look.
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I think it’s pretty obvious, Woodshed.
You got’s a hankerin’ for some guac’.
Hi there. Let’s say I don’t want to restring my uke to DGBE, should I just play the same chords but with GCEA uke fingerings or do I have to transpose? And if I just play the same chords on my GCAE, what is a D-5? I’ve looked around online and I can’t find it.
Nelson: That might be it.
tuscadero: You can play the same chords. D-5 is a D chord with a flattened fifth. You can play it 1220.
wow…..its a nice song but everything else about this video is both annoying and irritating.
its nice to see people getting excited about their ukes though :)
Al-
mostly I defer to your superior musical taste(Ukulady -Beirut etc) however the Guacomole song is merely twee-with great voices-
“Where Your Scar Is”-is superb and reminds me of a girl version of Boo Hewerdine-poignant and it appeals to this sentimental middle aged old uker
Brian
If there’s one thing that annoys me more than Guitar Center, it’s teenage girls. The song was alright, but I think I’ll cleanse my palette with some Patti Plinko.
thanks, Woodshed. Much obliged.
This song doesn’t do it for me I’m afraid, I find them rather irritating.
Wow, this one is nearly as controversial as Julia Nunes.
i remember my first song then i bought ukulele it was about pussy in the chimney and about her ears. But guacamole ukulele is better
Its impressive that they composed that in the car but they get on my nerves. The song is good though. Wait, no its not.
Hey, there was a bit of an error in the lyrics. Instead of one beat, it is Whompy….yeah. They were on a Wrock tour….which you probably don’t even know what that is. But yeah one beat = Whompy …
Haha! I think you did a good job.
:)
Auty: Thanks. And I’ve just checked out your music – excellent stuff.