Friday Night Share and Strum Music

6th Annual 2019 Alabama Uke Fest

https://alabamaukefest.weebly.com/music.html

October 10, 2019

Keith Fukumitsu has shared the sheet music that he collected for the Friday night "Share & Strum." It's been added to the song sheets previously collected from the UkeFest home page to create the final song list songbook: Friday Night Share and Strum UF19 - Final Song List.pdf. A Zip file of all the songs is also available: Friday Night Share and Strum-UF19-Final.zip

September 6, 2019, 4 pm Update:

Keith has provided us with lyrics and chords in the two-line format:

Five new songs have been added as of this morning, bringing us to a total of 24 songs (so far). The new songs are:

There was one other new song that I had missed: "Come Go With Me" (written by C. E. Quick of the American doo-wop vocal group The Del-Vikings, recorded by them in 1956)

Here is a PDF containing all six of these songs: Friday Night Song Update-Sept 6 2019.  And, here is a zip file of those songs: Friday Night Share and Strum-Sept 6 2019.zip

Already on the list:

Here is a a PDF containing all 24 of the songs: Friday Night Share and Strum-UF19-All_2019-09-06, plus a zip file of all 24 songs: Friday Night Share & Strum-All_2019-09-06.zip

We are cautioned to download and print music for Friday night as it becomes available,  and to check back at their Music page often for new additions!

Below are links to the songs (except for the Sept 6 additions), plus a link to YouTube and a little blurb on each song. Enjoy!

Best of My Love (The Eagles, 1974)
First Line: Every night, I'm lying in bed, holding you close in my dreams
YouTube: Best of My Love

"Best of My Love" is a song written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and J. D. Souther. It was originally recorded by the Eagles (with Henley singing lead vocals), and included on their 1974 album "On the Border." The song was released as the third single from the album, and it became the band's first Billboard Hot 100 number 1 single in March 1975.

Source: Wikipedia, Best of My Love (Eagles song)

Breakfast in America (Supertramp, 1979)
First Line: Take a look at my girlfriend, She's the only one I got
YouTube: Breakfast in America

"Breakfast in America" is the title track from Supertramp's 1979 album of the same name. It was a minor hit on the singles charts in the US, but was a Top 10 hit in the UK. The lyrics tell about a person who has never been to the United States, and fantasizes about it.

Source: Wikipedia, Breakfast in America (song)

Can’t You See (The Marshall Tucker Band, 1973)
First Line: I'm gonna take a freight train, Down at the station
YouTube: Can't You See 

"Can't You See" is a song written by Toy Caldwell of The Marshall Tucker Band. The song was originally recorded by the band on their 1973 debut album, "The Marshall Tucker Band," and released as the album's first single. It was re-released in 1977 and peaked at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100. Cover versions have charted for Waylon Jennings (in 1976) and the Zac Brown Band with Kid Rock (2010).

Source: Wikipedia, Can't You See (The Marshall Tucker Band song)

Car Wash Blues (Jim Croce, 1974)
First Line: Well, I just got out from the county prison
YouTube: Car Wash Blues

"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" is a 1974 single written and recorded by Jim Croce. It was the third single released from his album "I Got a Name." It reached a peak of #32 in July 1974 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also the fourth single released after Jim Croce was killed, along with five others, in a plane crash on September 20, 1973, at the height of his popularity. Croce described this song as having a "funky street feel". During a performance, he explained the song as "a story about a guy who thinks he thinks he should be ruling the universe somewhere, but he is really working at a car wash". Croce explained he came up with the idea for the song while in the military at Fort Jackson running telephone cables on poles and thinking he should be doing something else.

Source: Wikipedia, Workin' at the Car Wash Blues

Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes (Jimmy Buffet, 1977)
First Line: I took off for a weekend last month
YouTube: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes 

"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" is a song written and recorded by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was released as a single (b/w "Landfall") on ABC Dunhill 12305 in August 1977. It was first released on his 1977 album "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes." It reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 24 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and number 11 on the Easy Listening chart.

Source: Wikipedia, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (song)

City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman, 1971; Arlo Guthrie, 1972)
First Line: Riding on the City of New Orleans
YouTube: City of New Orleans 

"City of New Orleans" is a country folk song written by Steve Goodman (and first recorded for Goodman's self-titled 1971 album), describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans on the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the Illinois Central line for a visit to his wife's family. The song has been recorded by numerous artists both in the US and Europe, including two major hit versions: first by Arlo Guthrie in 1972, and later by Willie Nelson in 1984.

Source: Wikipedia, City of New Orleans (song)

Country Roads (John Denver, 1971)
First Line: Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
YouTube: Country Roads 

"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known as "Take Me Home" or "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver about the state of West Virginia. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number 2 on Billboard's US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971. The song was a success on its initial release and was certified Gold by the RIAA on August 18, 1971, and Platinum on April 10, 2017. The song became one of John Denver's most popular and beloved songs. It has continued to sell, with over 1.5 million digital copies sold in the United States. It is considered to be Denver's signature song.

Source: Wikipedia, Take Me Home, Country Roads

Dance With Me (Orleans, 1975)
First Line: Dance with me, I want to be your partner.
YouTube: Dance With Me - Orleans

"Dance with Me" is a 1975 hit single by American soft rock band Orleans from their second studio album, Orleans II (1974). Featuring a melodica solo by Larry Hoppen, "Dance With Me" was introduced on the band's third studio album "Let There Be Music" (1975) and was issued as that album's second single July 19, 1975 to become Orleans' first Top 40 single, reaching a Billboard Hot 100 peak of #6 that October.

Source: Wikipedia, Dance With Me (Orleans song)

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, (Bob Dylan, 1963)
First Line: It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
YouTube: Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan

"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" was written and recorded by Bob Dylan in 1962, and released on the 1963 album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," and as a single. In the liner notes to the original release, Nat Hentoff calls the song "a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better ... as if you were talking to yourself." There have been a huge number of covers, but the Peter, Paul & Mary cover was the definitive single, reaching #9 on Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Easy Listening chart.

Source: Wikipedia, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

I’ll Never Find Another You (The Seekers, 1964)
First Line: There's a new world somewhere they call the Promised Land
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMZePE7SQk

"I'll Never Find Another You" is a 1964 single by The Seekers which reached No. 1 in the UK in February 1965. It was The Seekers' first UK-released single, and was the second-best selling single of 1965 in the UK. The song was also popular in the US, reaching peaks of No. 4 pop and No. 2 easy listening on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The track was written and produced by Tom Springfield, who was also responsible for most of The Seekers' subsequent hits. The tune received a 1967 US revival as a country music No. 1 by Sonny James.

Source: Wikipedia, I’ll Never Find Another You

Losing My Religion (R.E.M., 1991)
First Line: Oh, life is bigger It's bigger than you
YouTube: Losing My Religion

"Losing My Religion" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. The song was released as the first single from the group's 1991 album Out of Time. Built on a mandolin riff, "Losing My Religion" was an unlikely hit for the group, garnering extensive airplay on radio as well as on MTV and VH1 due to its critically acclaimed music video. The song became R.E.M.'s highest-charting hit in the United States, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and expanding the group's popularity beyond its original fanbase.

Source: Wikipedia, Losing My Religion

Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens, 1971)
First Line: Morning has broken, like the first morning
YouTube: Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

"Morning Has Broken" is a Christian hymn first published in 1931 with words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". English pop musician and folk singer Cat Stevens included a version on his 1971 album "Teaser and the Firecat." The song became identified with Stevens due to the popularity of this recording. It reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1972.

Source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Has_Broken

Pink Cadillac (Bruce Springsteen, 1984)
First Line: You may think I'm fooling, for the foolish things I do
YouTube: Pink Cadillac

"Pink Cadillac" is a song by Bruce Springsteen released as the non-album B-side of "Dancing in the Dark" in 1984. The song received moderate airplay on album-oriented rock radio, appearing on the Billboard Top Tracks chart for 14 weeks, peaking at number 27. The song was also a prominent concert number during Springsteen's 1984-85 Born in the U.S.A. Tour. Like Prince's "Little Red Corvette", "Pink Cadillac" follows the tradition of the Wilson Pickett R&B song "Mustang Sally" in using automobile travel as a metaphor.

Source: Wikipedia, Pink Cadillac (song)

Ripple (The Grateful Dead, 1970)
First Line: If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
YouTube: Ripple 

"Ripple" is the sixth song on the Grateful Dead album "American Beauty." It was released as the B-side to the single "Truckin'". Robert Hunter wrote this song in 1970 in London in the same afternoon he wrote "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" (reputedly also drinking half a bottle of retsina [a Greek white or rosé resinated wine] in the process. The song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco. Jerry Garcia wrote the music to this song. Several lines throughout the song have been compared to the 23rd Psalm of the Bible.

Source: Wikipedia, Ripple (song)

Take It Easy (The Eagles, 1972)
First Line: Well I'm a runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
YouTube: Take It Easy 

"Take It Easy" is a song written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles with Frey singing lead vocals. It was the band's first single, released on May 1, 1972. It peaked at No. 12 on the July 22, 1972, Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also was the opening track on the band's debut album Eagles and it has become one of their signature songs, included on all of their live and compilation albums. It is listed as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Source: Wikipedia, Take It Easy.

Tequila Sunrise (Eagles, 1973)
First Line: It's another tequila sunrise, Starin' slowly cross the sky - I said good-bye
YouTube: Tequila Sunrise - Eagles

"Tequila Sunrise" is a 1973 song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles. It was the first single from the band's second album "Desperado." Although the song only peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100, it has become among the Eagle's most popular hits, included in four of their compilation sets from 1975 through 2003 including "Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)" and "The Very Best of the Eagles (1994)."

Source: Wikipedia, Tequila Sunrise (song)

That's What You Get for Loving Me (Gordon Lightfoot, 1966)
First Line: That's what you get for lovin' me.
YouTube: That's What You Get for Loving Me - Gordon Lightfoot

One of Canada's premier song writers and performers who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, Gordon Lightfoot wrote this song about relationships in the early 1960s, first recording it in late 1964 and releasing it in early 1965; it was also included in the 1966 album, "Lightfoot!" It has been a popular song since it was first released. Notable covers include versions by Peter, Paul and Mary (January 1965), Waylon Jennings (August 2, 1966), and Johnny Cash (October 1966), among many others. Lightfoot began topping the US Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts in the early 1970s with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974), "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared within the top 40s. Robbie Robertson of the Band described him as "a national treasure", and Bob Dylan observed that when he heard a Lightfoot song he wished "it would last forever."

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Those Were The Days (Mary Hopkin, 1968)
First Line: Once upon a time there was a tavern, Where we used to raise a glass or two
YouTube: Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin

"Those Were the Days" is Gene Raskin's English language translation of a Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu", composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. Mary Hopkin's 1968 debut single of "Those Were the Days" (producer, Paul McCartney) became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart. The song also reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "Hey Jude" by McCartney's band "The Beatles."

Source: Wikipedia, Those Were The Days (song)

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