Chords for Little Dog Blues-Del Rey plays and teaches an original ukulele blues

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Greetings from Seattle!
Hey there!
_ It's Del Rey.
I'm home in Seattle just like
everybody else in Seattle.
All my gigs are canceled for both March and April.
[Eb] Who
knows about May?
_ And of course my reaction to any kind of trouble,
including COVID-19, is to just stay at home and play your ukulele.
Now's the
time, you know?
Don't be anxious, don't be worried.
[Em] Use some alcohol on your
ukulele strings and then let's get to work and learn a new song.
I'm gonna play
you a song that I wrote years ago for my dog, Coffee Boy.
He was a good little dog
and I wrote this song off a riff that Memphis Minnie used singing about her
horse, Frankie Jean.
One time my papa had a [C] horse. _ _
And we're gonna play it in the
key of C. _ _
And if you like this lesson and you have a little extra money, hit the
PayPal button because, man, we're out of money out here because all the
musicians, we don't have any backup.
But if there's no gigs, there's no rent.
So if
you have some money, send some along.
If you don't, enjoy yourself and here's a
[Em] ukulele song you can learn to cheer yourself up a little bit.
So we're gonna
play in the key of C.
The chords are [C] gonna be _ C down to C7 _ [Em] and we're also
gonna play an F7 and [A] we're gonna do it _ in an [Em] open position.
So it's gonna be the
F7, that's the four chord, is gonna be [Am] [A] 5 _ 6 and we're gonna play it with three and four on our fingers and then we're gonna lift that little finger off to get to the _ _ _ third fret. _ And then the G7 is gonna be just [G] normal, plain old regular G7. Then we're gonna have a [Cm] turnaround _ _ _ [C] that's gonna be in the third fret. I'll explain it all in detail after we hear the song. _ _ _ _ _ _
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You know I had a little dog, he was just right, he stayed home with me, Lord, quiet at night. He was a [A] short-haired dog, he didn't have no [C] fleas, didn't like to ramble, always try to please. [G] Little [C] dog, please stay with me. _ _ _ Well next I got a poodle, was a beauty queen, that was a lioness dog I ever have seen. [A] I bought her dinner on a silver [C] plate, she turned her back, Lord, she make me wait now. [G] Little _ [C] dog, please stay with me. _ _ _ Well next I got a dog that wouldn't stay home from dusk till dawn, he was leaving to roam. I [A] could hear him in the alley, starting to [C] fight. I lay there worrying all through the night. Now [G] little dog, _ [C] please stay with me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Listen, if you get a good dog, keep it by your side. Give it all your love and honey, but don't try to hide, [A] don't listen to what other people may [C] say. How a different kind of dog would be better some way. [G] Now little dog, come [C] back to me. _ _ _ You know I had a little dog, he was just right, he stayed home with me, Lord, quiet at night. He [A] was a short-haired dog, he didn't have no [C] fleas, didn't like to ramble, always try to [B] please. Little [Cm] dog, come [C] back to me. _ _ _ I [G] said little dog, where [C] can you be? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Alright, so we're playing it. Our thumb, _ this is the most important thing. We're gonna try, no matter what's happening, your thumb is one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and give yourself a little feeling of falling when you're playing that. See how it's kind of your, _ gravity is really your friend on that. Then we're _ _ _ _ _ _
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gonna pinch, _ _ _ _ and notice that's starting on the two, so one. _ _ Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
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_ we're going to change up to that [Em] four chord, zero, zero, five, six, and we're gonna start on the _ two again. [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Cm] we've got G [C] and then into a G7 [G] chord, _ _ _ _ _
and then we're gonna go to the turnaround, [C] which is three, three, _ [G] three on the second, [Eb] three on the third, _ _ open, [Em] second. _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] Okay, [C] _ _ _ that's the only [B] time that your thumb kind of stops, so when you get to [G] here, _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [C] I'm _ gonna do it all really slow. And so over here, _ we're gonna maintain this number of notes. Here's just the melody. _ _ [Ebm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ Here's with both. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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It's really just at the very end, the _ [A] _ _ [C] thumb _ drops out a little bit. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Little [F] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Dog Blues! All right then, stay safe, wash your hands, disinfect your ukulele, and I hope to see you sooner rather than later in person. But we'll all be practicing, we'll be really good, we'll have lots of fun and play lots of music. All right, goodbye from Seattle for now! [N] _ _