My Original Music
UKULELE SONGS
These songs were written for my fanfiction projects, but even taken out of context I think they still work as fun ditties to sing! Over the lyrics I put the chords approximately where you should play them. Sorry for the dashes, I still need to figure out how to put in large blank spaces, apparently. I don't really have a super solid strum pattern for these.
If you see a chord with "x#" next to it and no lyrics underneath, that's meant to be played for the specified number of measures. All my songs are in 4/4 time signature, so that's 4 quarter notes in one measure. So "x1" just means you strum that chord 4 times to complete 1 measure.
Chords grouped in parenthesis are meant to be played in order, then repeated. I'll put next to it in brackets how many times. The chorus will be marked off with a header and be between {}. If you see chorus again later in the song, just repeat what was in the curly brackets.
Listen to the songs on Soundcloud, too!
COMING SOON: Expect to see more lyrics! I have a few blues and fantasy songs to share (Though without audio, sadly)
INDEX
Eerie Lantern
Gm---------------------C7
Gave up on the herds
-------------------------------Gm
Can't help giving in to flight
This troubled world
--------------------C7
Will never confiscate
-------------------Gm
What's left of my mind
C7
Bladed gazes
D
Hungry faces
Am
Crowded places
Gm
I avoid
C7--------------------------Dm
They can't see what I see
C7----------------------------Dm
They can't hear what I hear
Am
When the dead call
Gm
I run to the only solace
--------C7
I can find
Gm
A cold smoke bastion
---------------C7
They can't take
Gm----------------------------C7
No violation that I'll suffer
For the living's sake
Gm----------------C7
Let me mind my own
Gm
Don't want to mix
-------------------------C7
Just keep your distance
---------------------Gm
And leave me alone
----------C7
I'm just fine
D
Don't want your rainbow
Am
Touching my black line
Gm x1
C7 x1
D
Got an eerie
Am
Mind~
(Gm, C7 x1) [repeat 3 times]
D x1
Gm x1
To Hope
G------------------F
I want to be more
----------------Em---------C
Than these sideways glances
G----------F
Little sighs
----------Em------C
And wasted chances
G---------------F
Lonely bus routes
Em----------C
Part-time shifts
G--------------F
Whispered Words
------Em----------C
And weak slim wrists
G------------------F
I want to be there
-----------------Em----------C
When you're tired and small
G---------------F
When lights fade
--------------Em-------C
And the curtains fall
G------------------------F
The well-wisheres leave
Em----------C
The fear grows
G------------F
Costumes slough
-----------Em-------C
And the doubt shows
CHORUS
{B♭
It's true
F
It's true
C---------------G
You never know
B♭--------------F
The sum of us
C---------------G
May never show
B♭-----------------F
The things we chased
C-----------------G
But couldn't see
B♭--------F
But to hope is to
C-------------G
Sometimes breathe}
G, C, F, Em x1
G------------F
I want to be what
-------Em-----------------C
You always know to find
G-------F
On standby
-------------Em-------C
And with answers primed
G-----------F
Ready, waiting
Em-------C
Ever real
G---------F
Not a ghost
------------Em------C
you cannot feel
G-------------------F
I want to be bright
--------------------Em------C
When I'm usually dull
G-------------F
Blast away
-----------Em---C
The despicable
G--------------F
Be your beacon
--------Em---------C
When fog gets dense
G----------F
Lose my mask
Em---------------C
But keep my sense
Repeat CHORUS 3 times
Cut Like Diamonds
F
Stand up little you
Am
Pick up little me
Dm
Smile and show them all
-------Am
What love really means
CHORUS
{------------------G7
Cuz we can shine like diamonds
------------C7
We can cut like diamonds
------------G7
We can shine like diamonds
-----------C7
We can cut}
F
I feel the magic in you
Am
Come touch the magic in me
Dm--------------------Am
Let it go, let it come
CHORUS
F
I dream of you
Am
Please wake to me
Dm
Don't leave me alone in this
Am
Sleepless sea
CHORUS
Dm
We're somehwere in the rough
F
Yeah, yeah
Am
We're somewhere hanging tough
Dm
We're diamonds in the rough
Yeah
Am (strum once)
Cuz we're hard, and shine, and cut
Chase the Rain
GMaj------G7
Hey, it's ok
CMaj7
Don't give up
---------F
Don't shy away
-------Em-----------------CMaj7
My cloud is soft and comfy
-------------GMaj
Won't you drift with me today?
---------------GMaj----------------G7
I know it's hard, an uphill fight
----------------CMaj7
Sometimes it seems your might
---------F
Will give tonight
-------Em----------------CMaj7
I'll hold you up with my two arms
-----GMaj
And guide you back to flight
-----------------GMaj-----------------G7
Just think of me out in the stands
-------------CMaj7-------------F
Surrounded by all your adoring fans
-------E--------------CMaj7
A whisper in the chaos
------------------------GMaj
That cheers your victory at hand
----------------GMaj-------------------G7
My heart is there under your wing
------------CMaj7------------F
I'ts both scary and thrilling
--------E----------------CMaj7
Your prism lights what I won't say
GMaj (5x Downstroke only)
Moving me to sing
----------------------GMaj
Let's chase the rain
--------------------------E
Oh let's chase the rain
-----------------------GMaj
Let's chase the rain
-----------------------------E
Yeah, let's chase the rain
--------------------------GMaj (strum once)
Oh, let's chase the rain
Look Ye Braves
Original lyrics written to the tune of Greensleeves. I wrote this for my fantasy novel series. It was featured in chapter 20, and was sung by ghost dwarves as they led a trio of heroes to cleanse their home and be laid to rest.
O’ look, ye braves!
The sun has gone.
The heavens blood,
Has rained so long,
So painted our souls
And belayed our song,
O’ braves, assay, assay.
The wicked snag
Of Night’s long smile
Has shrouded us in
Our sad exile.
Take up your arms,
We rise or sile!
O’ braves, assay, assay.
We’ll sow our rest,
With spent of mercy.
Our graves shall
Gleam in red.
But for those tots,
Whose eyes still shine,
We’d do it all again!
Braves, assay, assay, you lot!
Time hath withered,
We miss it not.
Braves, assay, assay, you lot,
For the darkness
Grows heavier still!
