Chords for Three Little Birds - Reggae ukulele - tutorial

_ _ _ _ Hi everybody, we're going to do a little reggae, yuca reggae, _ and _ we're going to use the song
Three Little Birds, very simple.
I'm going to show it to you in the key of C and then I'll show it to you in two other
keys in case C's not a good singing key for you.
_ Let me play it for you in [G#] C and then we'll talk about the strum and then we'll show you
the other keys as [C] well.
Okay, _ _ _ _ _ woke up this morning, _ _ ain't gonna get [G] no rest.
_ _ The light of [C] the moon, _ _ _ _ [F] I'm just _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [D#] feeling these pills.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ Don't worry _ _ about a thing, _ _ _ [F] every little thing's gonna be [C] alright. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Okay, so first of all, here's the chords.
Woke up this morning, C, _ waking with the [G] rising sun, G.
_ _ Three little _ [C]
seabirds _ [F] on my F doorstep, [C] _ singing C sweet songs, [G]
melodies pure and true, G.
[F] _ F is the [C] message to you, the chorus is don't C, _ about a thing, [F] F every little thing's [C] gonna be alright.
What about a C?
Okay, and then repeats [N] that.
So let's talk about _ the reggae strum.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ One, two, three, four.
So [B] what am I doing?
Well on the one and the three, one, [F#] two, three, four, one, two, three, four, there's kind
of a space, [C] a rest.
One, two, [Am] three, _ one, two, three.
Now you can _ pat the strings like this, slap them, stop them from vibrating.
One, _ three. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You can just ignore them. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
One, two, three.
_ But that hole on the three really makes the reggae sound like reggae. _ _ _
_ _ _ You can do it with your thumb, _ _ finger.
What I like to do is fingers, _ up, _ one, so one, two, three, _ _ one, _ _ _ _ _ slap. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ so that's it in the key of C.
In the key of [G] G, _ it would be, G woke up this morning, _ _ _ _ D7, G, [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#]
etc.,
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ _ etc.
Okay, and the chorus [G] would be, don't worry about a thing, [C] C, every little thing's gonna
be to [G] G. _ _ _ _
So the chorus is G and C.
And _ then there's a lot of easy keys, but the other nice [D] easy one on the uke is the key
of _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
D, which is these three in a row, second, third, and fourth. _
You have the D, then [A] A. _
If you don't know these chords, you go, _ steady [D] up, [G] and then the G.
_ _ _ [D] G, don't worry, _ _ _ about a thing, _ _ _ _ G, [G] every little _ _ thing's gonna [D] be alright. _ _ _
_ _ Alright, so that's the chorus, and the verse is, woke up this morning, _ _ _ [A] A, rising sun, _ _ _ _ G,
_ _ _ [G] G, _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
A, and then to A. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay, so that's your basic [B] reggae, you know, no crying, [C] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [G] _ fast, slow.
Good all-purpose.