About the Song List

The songs posted here are public-domain, released under a Creative Commons license, or ones I've secured permission to use. A few are from the book, most are just favourites I wanted to share with folks.

Jacob Borshard

Brains, Brains

Vincent and Theo

Jonathan Coulton

Internet-famous for his comic songs, Coulton is a Uke Friend, and had a ukulele army onstage in a recent tour.

Better

Betty and Me

Christmas is Interesting

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

The Presidents

Isham Jones and Gus Kahn

It Had To Be You

Harry McClintock

Big Rock Candy Mountains

(and John Hodgman's variant)

Rabbit Muse

Darkness on the Delta

Traditional

Good King Wenceslas

Craig Robertson

This is a simplified version of Craig’s catchy song, which you can watch and download from his website (along with much more).

Houdini Never Hung Around in Bars

J. Robinson

A modified version of the only song I know about CSS, tweaked for Wordcamp New Zealand 2011.

Curly Bracket Blues

Rod Thomas

Winner of the Ukulele Video of the Year 2008: watch it at Rod's site .

Same Old Lines

Henare Waitoa

Hoki Mai

The Verlaines

Death and the Maiden