Ukulele Part 2

ABC Wednesday
May 31, 2017
The letter is U for Ukulele (part 2)

Well, I'm still having fun!

Loving the Ukulele......

It keeps me company at Breakfast time

when we practice a few chords

and sometimes sing

"Five Foot Two"

which I can play now without having

to look at the music.

Here's a little poem from Sandra Beasley

that has a few words to say about the tranquility

of the Ukulele.

"The vessel is simple - a rowboat among yachts.

No one hides a Tommy gun in its case.

No bluesman runs over his uke in a whiskey rage.

The last of the Hawaiian queens translated the name

gift that came here

while the Portuguese historians translate jumping flea

the way a player's fingers pick and fly.

If you have a cigar box, it'll do.

If you have a fishing line, it'll sing.

If there is to be one instrument of love,

not love vanished or imagined, 

but love, it's this one.

Fit a melody in the crook of your arm and strum."

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