Chords for ON MOONLIGHT BAY (revisited) - Ukulele video tutorial by UKULELE MIKE LYNCH

[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[F] We _ [G] were sailing [D] _ along _ [G] _ _ on [D] moonlight bay.
_ _ We could hear the [A] voices ringing.
_ _ [C#] They seemed [D] to say,
[A] _ You have broken [D] my heart.
_ [G] _ Now don't [D] go away.
_ [B] _ _ As [Em] we sing love's old [A] sweet song on [D] moonlight [G] bay.
_ [D] _ We were sailing _ along _ [G] _ _ on [D] moonlight _ bay.
_ We could hear [A] the voices _ [C#]
ringing.
They _ [D] seemed to say,
[C#] _ You have [D] broken my _ [G] heart.
Now [Bm] don't go away.
[D#] _ _ _ [Em] As we sing love's [C#] old sweet song on moonlight [Bm] bay.
[C#] [A] On moonlight [Bm] _ bay. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] Hi, I'm Moonlight Bay.
Written by Edward Madden and Percy Winnrick in 1912,
and done by me as a tutorial several years ago on YouTube,
I decided to revisit this song and present it in a little different way
with some I think really interesting chord changes
to give it a little bit more taste, a little bit more interest to it.
I'm basically using [D] a shuffle, a down up, down up,
_ _ _ the D chord, and [Em] generally when I play a D,
I bar the second fret, little pikies up on [D] the fifth fret
_ to give it a little brighter tone.
You can play your D _ like that as well.
[C#] Either way is fine.
Okay, now the little intro on this song is really, really kind of cool, I think.
Starts with a D, and I just play these [D] notes separately.
_ _ _ [D#] Then I go to an E flat diminished, _ [C] _ or more accurately [B] called a diminished seventh.
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ [Em] _
Then it goes to a G sixth.
Now a G sixth, you take a G chord and just release the ring [G] finger
so the second string is open. _
_ Then it goes to an A [F] seventh _ plus five.
[C#] Take an A seventh chord, add the middle finger to the first fret of the second [F] string.
_ So once again, it [D] goes D, _ _ [B] E flat diminished,
[C] _ _
[Em] then G sixth, _ _ A seventh plus five, [G] _ [F] _ _ [G] and we're into the song.
We were sailing _ alone.
Then we got a G chord.
_ On moonlight [G#] bay.
Back to D.
[Em] We could hear the voices ringing.
A [A] seventh. _
[D] They seem to say.
[A] Back to a D, A seventh.
_ _ You have broken [D] my heart.
D.
Then we go to a [G] G. _
[D] Now don't go away.
D.
Then it changes to an E flat [Cm] diminished.
[B] E flat diminished seventh. _
As we sing, E minor.
Love's old sweet [A] song.
A seventh.
_ _ [D] On moonlight bay.
D.
[G] Then it goes to a G. _
[D] Then back to D.
Then we repeat it.
[N] Now at the very end, it goes, on moonlight bay.
[D] _ [C#] _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ On moonlight bay.
Typical barbershop thing.
You can just soak it for what it's worth with all the harmonies you can get out of it.
So you start with a D chord.
[C#] Now here's where using the bar D is really important.
[D] Because you take it and you just slide it down one fret.
Because it's a movable chord.
It's a bar chord.
It's movable.
Move it down a half [C#] step.
That makes it into a D flat or C sharp.
_ Then it [Em] goes to an A seventh.
[D] So it goes, [C#] on _
[A] moonlight _ [Bm] _ bay. _ _
_ _ And all I'm doing [D] there is barring the second fret [Bm] to make the D sixth.
_ [N] And I do a little tremolo for some dramatic ending to it.
[D] [C#] On [A] _
moonlight [Bm] _ bay. _ _ _
Slow it down and brush it.
_ [N] So there's lots of cool little elements that I think I've added to it this time around.
And it's a good key.
It's a good singing key in D.
So have fun with it.
And happy strumming.
By the way, this is included in my book, The Songs of Yesteryear, Volume 1.
There's many more songs in that book.
And when my wife and I did the ukulele cruise here in February and March,
_ _ _ we uploaded many of these songs for the class to learn.
And I would say maybe a third of the class, they weren't even printing their music out.
They were just using it on their iPads.
It was a very, very cool, high-tech way of doing it.
So if you were to get this book, you can just _ download it into your iPad or whatever you've got on your tablet.
You can use that as your book.
You don't even have to print out the song sheets.
Now for me, with my aging eyes, this is what I end up using nowadays. _
Large print edition on Moonlight Bay.
_ All right.
Have fun with it.
And once again, happy strumming. _ _ _
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