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Thread #92993   Message #1783861
Posted By: Songster Bob
14-Jul-06 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Lap-Style Ukulele?
Subject: RE: Lap-Style Ukulele?
In Honolulu town,
A man known miles around
Has turned things upside down,
They call him Old Bill Bailey.
Bill Bailey won his fame
On his steel guitar.
Ukulele was his fame
In that land afar.
The ships way out at sea
All hear his melody.

Chorus:

When Old Bill Bailey
Plays the ukulele
Down in Honolulu
They dance the hula-hulu
Every evening, there they are,
Swaying while he's playing his Hawaiian guitar.
His ragtime motion
Even has the ocean
Bobbing up and down.
Sometimes a whale gets to feeling flip,
Wags his tail and sinks a battleship.
When Old Bill Bailey
Plays the ukulele
Down in Honolulu town.

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This old pop song mixes the two instruments up freely, and I think it's a case of your Number two suggestion up there. I thin it's number two and three, intermixed, that results in this confusion of playing styles.


SongBob