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Ukulele Song Collection Assignment
Lava:
C

G7

A long long time ago there was a volcano

F
C
G7
living all alone in the middle of the sea
C
G7
He sat high above his bed watching all the couples play
F
C
G7
And wishing that he had someone, too.
C
G7
And from his lava came this song of hope that he sang
F
C
G7
out loud everyday for years and years.
Chorus
F
C
I have a dream I hope will come true
G7
C
That you're here with me and I'm here with you
F
C
I wish that the earth, sea, the sky up above-a
G7
C
will send me someone to lava.
The song Lava is from the short film that played before Disney Pixars
Inside Out. It premiered in May 2015 at the Cannes Film Festival in
France. This short is Pixars first musical short they have ever done.

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Hickory Dickory Dock:
C
Hickory Dickory dock,
C
The mouse ran up the clock,
C
The clock struck one
C
The mouse ran down,
C
Hickory Dickory dock
Hickory Dickory Dock is a popular folk song that originated in England.
The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty
Song Book, published in London in about 1744. The next recorded
version is in Mother Goose's Melody recorded in 1765.

Tea Pot Song:

C
C
F
C
Im a little teapot short and stout
F
G7
C
Here is my handle here is my spout
C
C
F
C
When I get all steamed up hear me shout
F
G7
G7
C
Tip me over and pour me out
"The Teapot Song", commonly known, as I'm a Little Teapot", is an
American song describing the heating and pouring of a teapot or a
whistling teakettle. Clarence Kelley, the composer of the song, and his
wife ran a dance school for children, which taught the "Waltz Clog", a
popular and easy-to-learn tap dance routine. This routine, however,
proved too difficult for the younger students to master. To solve this
problem, George Sanders wrote The Teapot Song, which required
minimal skill and encouraged natural movement. Both the song and
its accompanying dance, the "Teapot Tip", became enormously popular
in America and overseas.

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Mary had a Little Lamb:

C
C
Mary had a Little lamb,
G7
C
Little lamb, little lamb
C
C
Mary had a little lamb
G7
C
Its fleece was white as snow:
C
C
And everywhere that Mary went,
G7
C
Mary went Mary went
C
C
Everywhere that Mary went
G7
C
The lamb was sure to go
The words of the American nursery rhyme Mary had a Little Lamb were
inspired by an actual story. Young Mary Sawyer decided to take her
lamb to school one day at the suggestion of her brother. Visiting
Marys school that day was a young man that was very taken by the
presence of the lamb. The next day he returned to the little
schoolhouse and handed Mary a piece of paper with three original
stanzas written upon it.

Puff the Magic Dragon:

C
G7
F
C
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
F
G7
G7
C
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
C
G7
C
Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff,
F
G7
G7
C
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

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Puff the Magic Dragon is a childrens song about a little boy and his
imaginary friend Puff, the dragon. This shows how children will grow
and leave their imaginary friends behind, and to stay young while you
can and enjoy your time being a child.
Old Macdonald:
C
C
Old MacDonald had a farm,
F
C
Ee i ee i oh!
C
C
And on his farm he had some chicks,
F
C
Ee i ee i oh!
C
With a cluck-cluck here,
C
And a cluck-cluck there
C
C
Here a cluck, there a cluck,
C
C
Everywhere a cluck-cluck
C
C
Old MacDonald had a farm
F
C
Ee i ee i oh!
The first versions of this song appeared in 1917 and was originally
called Old MacDougalThe song Old MacDougal went something like
this:
Old MacDougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o,
And on that farm he had some dogs in Ohio-i-o,
With a bow-wow here, and a bow-wow there,
Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow-wow.
There were several versions of this song for many different American
states. Eventually the sate names were removed and we created the
version that we all know and love today.

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London Bridge:
C
C
London Bridge is falling down,
C
Falling down, falling down.
C
C
London Bridge is falling down,
C
My fair lady
London Bridge Is Falling Down is a traditional English nursery
rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over
the world. It deals with the damages of London Bridge and attempts,
realistic or fanciful, to repair it. It may date back to bridge rhymes and
games of the late middle Ages, but the earliest records of the rhyme in
English are from the seventeenth century. The lyrics were first printed
in close to its modern form in the mid-eighteenth century and became
popular, particularly in Britain and the United States in the nineteenth
century.

Yankee Doddle:
C
C
Yankee Doodle went to town
C
A-riding on a pony
C
C
Stuck a feather in his hat
G7
C
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle is a well knowing English-American folk song, the origin
of which dates back to the Seven Years War. It is often sung
patriotically in the United States and is the state anthem of
Connecticut.

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Alouette:
C
C
Alouette, gentille Alouette
C
C
Alouette je te plumerai
C
C
Alouette, gentille Alouette
C
C
Alouette je te plumerai
C
Je te plumerai la tete
C
Je te plumerai la tete
C
Et la tte, et la tete
C
O-o-o-o-oh
C
C
Alouette, gentille Alouette
C
C
Alouette je te plumerai
Alouette is a popular French-Canadian children's song about plucking
the feathers from a lark, in retribution for being woken up by its song.
Although it is in French, it is well known among speakers of other
languages. Many American soldiers learned the song while serving in
France during World War I and took it home with them, passing it on to
their children and grandchildren.

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Jingle Bells:
C
F
Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh
G7
C
Over fields we go, laughing all the way
F
Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright
G7
C
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song to-night , oh!
C
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
F
C
G7
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, hey!
C
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
F
C
G7
C
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh
A Medford Massachusetts resident named James Pierpont wrote jingle
Bells in 1850. The annual one-horse open-sleigh races on Salem and
Pleasant Streets between Medford Square and Malden Square inspired
this song. Pierpont wrote the tune in Simpson's Tavern, a boarding
house that had only one piano in town.

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Sources:
All Nursery Rhyme lyrics taken from:
http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm
Facts about songs from:
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/