UkeTunes Songbooks – Edition 3

August 20, 2017 by Ian 4 Comments

I thought it was probably about time that I updated the songbooks to include all the new songs that I’ve posted on here over the last 18 months or so. And here they are. These songbooks are by far the most downloaded things on this site, and hopefully that means they get used as well. Please feel free to onward share as well as use yourself

As with the last update, I’ve taken the opportunity to include a whole batch of songs that I’d worked on that never made onto this site as individual blog posts. So by my reckoning there are 39 new songs in here since the last edition, making a total of 152 songs in the new book. Eclectic as ever, that includes some synth classics, pop-punk by way of the 60s, a fair smattering of contemporary country-and-folk tinged songs, disco, and even a few contemporary pop hits. But more importantly just good songs (in my opinion, at least!).

These are now compiled into three books:

• UkeTunes Songbook, Edition 3. This is the full song book, with all the songs in.
• UkeTunes 80s Songbook, Edition 3. An update to the previous edition, containing all of the 1980s songs that have been published here.
• UkeTunes 60s and 70s Songbook, Edition 2. An update to the previous edition, containing all of the 1960s and 1970s songs that have been published here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For reference, here’s the list of all the new songs that are included in the books (those that haven’t previously published on the site are shown with a (*):

• Autobahn (Kraftwerk)
• Beautiful Day (U2)
• Big Log (Robert Plant) *
• Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order)
• Bonny (Prefab Sprout)
• Cheap Thrills (Sia) *
• Easy (Commodores) *
• Forest Fire (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
• Homecoming Queen (Brandy Clark)
• How Sweet It Is (James Taylor)
• It’s Too Late (Carole King)
• Joan Of Arc (OMD)
• Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer)
• Life Is A Rollercoaster (Ronan Keating)
• Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan / Adele)
• Message In The Box (World Party)
• Mulder and Scully (Catatonia)
• Never Can Say Goodbye (The Communards / Gloria Gaynor)
• Night Cafe (OMD)
• Old England (The Waterboys)
• One Little Song (Gillian Welch)
• Private Emotion (Ricky Martin / The Hooters) *
• Rent (Pet Shop Boys)
• Robot Man (The Gymslips / Connie Frances)
• Rockin’ In The Free World (Neil Young)
• Send My Love (Adele) *
• Short Haired Woman Blues (Dave Rawling Machine)
• Since Yesterday (Strawberry Switchblade) *
• Spacer (Sheila B. Devotion)
• Stop! (Erasure)
• Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)
• Tempted (Squeeze) *
• The Mighty Ship (The Housemartins) *
• The Town I Loved So Well (The Dubliners)
• The Way Old Friends Do (Abba)
• Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran) *
• When Will You Make My Telephone Ring (Deacon Blue)
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder)
• You’ve Got A Friend (Carole King)