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Adam's Year of Uke: Will the Circle

10/29/2020

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.Here is a fun song that I like very much but is sometimes confused with a church song.  We have certainly played it in church!  That said, it's not a hymn, really.  It just has a kickin' hymn-like chorus.  The chords are simple (G, C, G, D G).  It is a fun song to chunk on, too.

This is also one of those old songs that people sometimes msitake for a realtively new one.  People like Johnny Cash, for example, are sometimes credited as the composer.  He isn't.  Wikipedia lets us know that it was written in 1907 by Ada Habershon and Charles Gabriel.

Here are the words!


Will the Circle Be Unbroken
(A. Habershon and C. Gabriel)


I was standing by my window

On a cold and cloudy day
When I saw that hearse come rolling
For to carry my mother away

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky

Well I told that undertaker
Undertaker please drive slow
For that body you are hauling
Lord I hate to see her go

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky

Oh, I followed close behind her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky

I went home and my home was lonely
Since my mother, she had gone
All my brothers, sisters crying
Oh what a home so sad and alone

​Will the circle be unbroken

By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky
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WhiteHouse Blues

10/22/2020

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McKinley Hollered/McKinley squalled/the docter said "McKinley, I can't find the ball"/You're bound to die/You're bound to die

I do dimply recall a time before I knew I needed a song bout the assassination of President McKinley but, thankfully, that time is gone.  I had surgery on my right arm this week and am unable to record another uke vid, so I am stealing one from the vault.  I hope you like it!  

If you are at all interested in learning more about this precious piece of Americana you can check out a longer piece I wrote about it a while ago.
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Over My Head

10/16/2020

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Here is a classic old tune that has been popular with kids, around campfires, and church.  I used only two chords (yay!). I started out on G and then went to D and back again so on until the end.  Whatever variation you hear was simply done by lifting and lowering my fingers on some of the strings.  It is a super-easy thing to do!  I suspect the words are intuitive but just in case, the first verse goes like this:

Over my head I hear trouble in the air (3x)
There must be a God somewhere


The enxt verses just change one word!  Yay folk music!  The next verse substitutes "music" for "trouble" then "music" then "singing" then "glory".  As happens to me from time to time, my chord progression is slightly wonky between the verses.  I will work on that.
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    I play a number of musical instruments.  In addition to the ukulele I play the mandolin, guitar, rhythm bones, and a few other things.  This page, though, is about my uke project.  I recently decided to post once a week on a uke-themed topic. Most of these posts will be simple songs you can sing along to.  Maybe later I will do more informational videos as well.

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