Zee Avi – Kantoi (Chords)
September 10, 2009
I love this sort of thing. I wish people would sing in their own languages more often. So full credit to Zee Avi for writing a song in a language I didn’t even know existed: Manglish (a cross between Malay and English). I would have thought this was a sure thing for Ukulele & Languages, but apparently not. Anyhoo, given that there are Zee Avi makeup tutorials online, her uke playing deserves some more attention.
Suggested Strumming
The main pattern you’ll need is:
d – d u – u d -
The intro: once for each chord.
First line: two for C, two for G7.
Second line: two more for G7, Two for C.
Third line: once for each chord.
Fourth line: one down strum for each chord.
Middle section: once for every chord except C (which is twice)
loving this song and really starting to lie zee avi, i think its not been featured as ukulele and language song because i beleive that manglish would count as a creole and not a language in its own right as its made up of various languages, but perhaps i’m wrong.
Zee Avi is still in my list of links for Ukulele and Languages, Al, only you are faster than I am ;)
Glad you did the chords for this song.
cardboardfrog : thanks for trying to find me excuses, but I am featuring languages and dialects on U&L so Manglish will definitely be featured at some stage.
cbf and Armelle: Perhaps the name of the blog should be Ukulele & Languages & Creoles & Dialects ;)
Oh my gosh. A lot of Malays use Manglish from last time. Even I use it. And you say you never it existed? People use them because they either not good in English or not good in Malay. I didnt mean to offend anybody okay. By the way, love this song(:
haha manglish is actually mandarin + english usually spoken in malaysia and singapore. what zee avi was singing is malay and english mixed together in a sentence. :) love her songs btw.