Obama Ukulele Songs
October 23, 2008
I’ve been officially disengaged from politics since February 2003, so I wasn’t going to mention the election. But the trend of ukulele Obama songs is impossible to ignore.
As far as I’m aware, the first uke Obama song was Barak Obama Caucas Carol back in December but really took off with the formation of Ukes for Obama. You can find the chords for the Ukes for Obama songs on this page. Ukes for Obama are part of CNN’s competition to find the best short film of the campaign. You can vote for it here.
And here are a couple more Obama songs:
Ukelilli – Vote for Obama (Chords)(PDF)
You can buy Ukelilli stuff on her website.
Sylvie Simmons – Million Ukulele March
The Million Ukulele March is, British writer, Sylvie Simmons’ attempt to get a million ukuleles to pledge their support for Obama. You can sign up for the march (it’s virtual – you don’t have to get off your arse) on MySpace.
Listen to the song on MillionUkuleleMarch.com and
In the interests of balance: the only pro-Republican uke featuring video.
[...] to ukulelehunt, the web is now crawling with people strumming the ukulele to show their support for his [...]
Hah can’t believe i’ve never come across ukes for Obama. Dig the idea and the vote for Obama song is catchy. I’ll need to learn it before election night. Though i’m gonna be pretty freaking drunk no matter which way it goes so probably won’t be able to pull it off.
Just for the record, Some of us Ukers like McCain too.
Scott you should make a McCain uke vid. The market’s wide open, i couldn’t find a single pro-McCain vid on youtube. Maybe call it “Drill, baby drill”?
That makes 2 of us Scott.
I’m with you Scott . We could make one together and call it N0bama.
That was great. Even Zach Condon was strumming for Obama.
Chris: Good luck with the drunken strumming.
Scott, Zak and Rob: Sounds like time for a McCain uke trio. Rhyme suggestions: Joe the plumber/ukulele strummer.
Jeff: Thanks for the link.
And then, of course, there’s some of us ukers who’re voting the Barr/Root ticket.
But I’m not going to sing about them. Just vote for them.
The more votes that can be garnered for third parties (a misnomer, really, since there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicrats and Democans and so it should be “second parties”) the more likely it is for the MSM and such to actually pay attention to the fact that there’s a lot of folks out here who’re tired of the same old same old.
In New Hampshire, I met this guy with a ukulele campaigning for Ron Paul . . . he was mediocre, but here’s the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9U4gLDTJ2U
go to 2:11 . . . he was jammin outside the office and someone stuck a camera in his face and told him to sing a ron paul song
Marty: Thanks for the clip. That guy can’t be sober.
Hobbit: Good idea to refrain from singing. Good political songs are very rare.
This post could have gone south quickly, but thankfully the level headed American uke players out there aren’t as vicious as the politicians themselves!
Go Obama!!!!!
Uketube darling Molly also supports Barack, even if it is for jokes about his name:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5glQhNF9X0k
its towards the end
Jason: I had my finger hovering over the ‘Delete’ button, but everyone’s been civil.
Andrew: Thanks for the link. And I thought I knew how to drill a pun into the ground!
Darn…I wanted to form Ukes for Ron Paul. She’s cute but politically mistaken. Our president shouldn’t “take care of us”. But that aside, this was great.
Ayrton: I agree with you on that. But I think a lot of people voted for him with that intention. Which does worry me.
I thought it’s a mockery.
..And I can sleep tighter
Obama’s my fighter
Vote for Obama
And for his mama
He turns us around
And fixes my playground
etc.