Chords for MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME for the UKULELE - UKULELE LESSON / TUTORIAL by "UKULELE MIKE"

[A] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] The sun shines bright in [F] the old Kentucky [C] _ home
_ Tis summer _ [Am] the people _ [G] are gay
_ _ The _ _ [C] _ corn tops ripe _ [Am] and the [F] meadows in the [C] blue
_ While the birds
[Am] Make [G] music [C] all the [F] day _ _
[C] _ The _ young _ folks roll _ [F] on the little cabin [C] floor
_ All merry _
[Am] all happy _ [G] and bright
_ _ _ By [C] and by Hard _ times
[Am] Comes a-knockin at [C] the door
_ Then my old [C#] Kentucky [D] home
[G] _ Good [C] _ [F] _ [C] night _ _ _ _
_ _ Weep [F] no more My [C] _ lady _ _ _ Oh
[F] _ _ Weep no more _ [C] Today
_ _ _ _ We will _ sing one song _ [Am] for the old [F] Kentucky _ [C]
home
_ For the old [C#] Kentucky [F#] home [G] _ far [C] _ [F] away
_ _ [C] The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sun shines bright _ [F] in the old [C] Kentucky _ home Tis summer
the [F#] people _ [G] are gay
_ _ _ The [C] _ corn tops ripe [F] and the meadows [C] in the blue
_ While the birds
[Am] Make [G] music [C] all the [F] _
[C] day
_ The _ young folks roll _ [F] on the little _ [C] cabin floor
_ All merry [F#] all happy _ [G] and _ bright
_ _ By [C] and by Hard times
[F] Comes a-knockin at [C] the door
Then my [A] old [D] Kentucky [Bm] home
[C] Good _ [F] _
[C] night _ _ _ _ _
Weep [F] no more My [C] _ lady _ _ _ _ [F] Oh _
Weep no _ more
[C] Today _ _
_ We will sing one song
[F] For the old [C] Kentucky home
For the old [A]
Kentucky [D] _ [G] home
[C] far [F] away
_ [C] Hi, _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
my old Kentucky home a classic Stephen Foster song written in
1853 _ it is now the state song of Kentucky and since _
1921 it has been sung at every Kentucky Derby
coming up May 1st 2010 the
136 run once again everybody will be singing my old Kentucky home as the horses are led to the post parade _
I've done it in two ways in this video lesson one is a finger picking version and the second one is a strumming [C] version
Let me show you how the picking version goes take a C chord _ _ _
I'm playing thumb on the fourth string
_ Then thumb on the third string
_ Then index finger on [E] the second _ and middle finger [G#] middle finger on the first _
simply fourth [C] string third string second and first so it sounds
_ Is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ what we call an arpeggio?
Then we have a C seventh
We _ _ [F]
have an F chord
_ We _ _ _ have a D [F#] seventh _ _ _ _
[G] We have a G seventh _ _ _
Little later on we have [A] an a seventh _
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[C] _ _ _ Now as I've [N] mentioned in other lessons.
It's a good idea to practice hands separately
So just take your left hand dead in the strings and just do this _
_ _ _ Until you get your right hand memorizes that arpeggio
_ Pattern remember the thumb goes from the fourth string to the third string so thumbs got kind of double duty there fourth string third string
index fingers on the second and middle fingers on the first
_ And you have your arpeggio now for the strumming [C] pattern
_ _ _ down down up
_ It's _ kind of like a version of what we call church lick
_ _ Down _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] down up [N] down down up down down up back of the nail going down flesh of the finger coming up
I've had people
_ Ask me about the problem of having their fingernail
Hooking and catching on the string and that will happen if your fingernail has a jagged or a sharp edge to it
So you might want to round it off
Make sure it's not too long
But mostly that it's that it's evenly rounded with a file or an emery board to get it nice and nice and smooth
[C] Then you'll have that
_ _ It'll just glide across the [F] strings [C] and don't dig into the into the strings with your finger.
Just
Graze it across the top
Another way of doing this would be [N] like with a felt pick
You can get those little ukulele felt picks or very thin plastic pick
All right, my old Kentucky home.
I'm gonna be doing more Stephen Foster tunes coming up.
So stay tuned and
Also, I will mention again go over to my [E] Beatles ukulele mic channel subscribe to that and I've got three new
[D#] Beatles lessons that I just posted this week and I've got more to come so check it out.
Have [D] fun and happy strumming
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