Colbie Caillat

Cat’s Ukulele Songbook #4

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Sorry, this one took a bit longer to put together. I usually spend the time over the Christmas break compiling all the songs and formatting them but this year I was busier than usual.

Last year, we compiled a huge file of 80’s songs for a theme song night we held in Delhi at the Music Cafe. I also compiled Legion jam songs into two formats: one set of just lyrics with chord letters (so guitar players would feel comfortable) and an original set of song sheets with ukulele chords. I ALSO compiled a binder of Christmas songs of sheet music so my sister and her friend could play along with me for a “sing along” party that she held at her house. Co-ordinating their sheet music in the same key as my ukulele songs was a nightmare. I finally had to concede on some and just re-write mine in the same key as the sheet music. Sheet music, by the way, is hard to find on the internet for free. So remember that the next time you’re surfing around trying to find a song in a particular key: just get off yer duff and transpose it yourself, lazybones!

So the influence for this year’s songbook comes from the 80’s theme song night and the Legion jam songs. I posted hardly any contemporary or modern ukulele songs this year. I had gone back and revisited 2 songs that I had promised to the Colbie Callait category, so that’s what I contributed to that genre.

Cat’s Ukulele Songbook 4

The traditional Christmas ukulele songbook is still in the works. I think I have 7 songs out of 18 formatted. It will be coming out in the fall.

You can find all the other songbooks I compiled on the Songs tab. Scroll down to the bottom to the Songbooks section.

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Fallin’ For You by Colbie Callait

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Be careful what you wish for! I started this new category and let it sit there. So now I want to fill it up with some good songs by Colbie Callait.

Here is Bubbly

With Official Vevo vid:

The original song is in the Key of A, sorry.

And Fallin For You with the appropriate Youtube vid from the colbiecallait channel:

I hope you enjoy it. (That’s my goal)

Colbie Caillat

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I am going to add a new category, since I already have a separate category for Elvis, and dedicate it to songs by Colbie Caillat.

This is a singer/songwriter from Malibu, California. Her first hit was Bubbly in 2007 at the tender age of 21. Her duet with Jason Mraz, Lucky, earned her a Grammy award. According to her website bio, her father Ken Caillat was a sound engineer who had helped produce two Fleetwood Mac albums: Rumours and Tusk. So it’s safe to say that her family’s involvement in the music industry influenced her early on. It’s no surprise to learn that she often performs Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way during her concerts.

Recently, Colbie has been romantically linked to Hawaiian musician Jason Kawika Young, the lead guitarist in her band. She is a self-professed sufferer of stage fright. And she appeared in her video for her newest released hit song, Try, completely stripped of make-up. Since the video has gone “viral” as they say, she has become the unofficial spokesperson for inner beauty.

On Friday, May 8 Colbie Caillat will be playing in Toronto at the Sherton Center Toronto Hotel – Grand Ballroom. You can order tickets from here: MTV Artists.

Here are the words to the song Try:

TRY ~ Colbie Callait

Intro:  picking patterns 4 times each [Am]  [F]  [C]  [G]

[Am] Put your make-up on, get your nails done, curl your hair

[F] Run the extra mile, keep it slim, so they like [C] you.  Do they like [G] you?

[Am] Get your sexy on, don’t be shy girl, take it off

[F] This is what you want, to belong, so they like [C] you.  Do they like [G] you?

You don’t have to [Am] try so hard, you don’t have to, [F] give it all away

You just have to [C] get up, get up, get up, get up

You don’t have to [G] change a single thing

You don’t have to [Am] try, try, try, try-iy,  You don’t have to [F] try, try, try, try-iy

You don’t have to [C] try, try, try, try-iy,  You don’t have to [G] try

You-oo-oo-oo don’t have to [Am] try [F] [C] [G] mmm

~

[Am] Get your shopping on, at the mall, max your credit cards

[F] You don’t have to choose, buy it all, so they like [C] you. Do they like [G] you?

[Am] Wait a second, why, should you care, what they think of you

[F] When you’re all alone, by yourself, do you like [C] you? Do you like [G] you?

You don’t have to [Am] try so hard, you don’t have to, [F] give it all away

You just have to [C] get up, get up, get up, get up

You don’t have to [G] change a single thing

–

You don’t have to [Am] try so hard, you don’t have to [F] bend until you break

You just have to [C] get up, get up, get up, get up

You don’t have to [G] change a single thing

You don’t have to [Am] try, try, try, try-iy,  You don’t have to [F] try, try, try, try-iy

You don’t have to [C] try, try, try, try-iy,  You don’t have to [G] try

–

You don’t have to [Am] try, try, try, try-iy,  You don’t have to [F] try, try, try, try-iy

You don’t have to [C] try, try, try, try-iy,  You don’t have to [G] try

You-oo-oo-oo don’t have to [Am] try [F] [C] Oh [G] mmm

You don’t have to [Am] try so hard, you don’t have to, [F] give it all away

You just have to [C] get up, get up, get up, get up

You don’t have to [G] change a single thing

You don’t have to [Am] try, try, try, try,  You don’t have to [F] try, try, try, try

You don’t have to [C] try,  You don’t have to [G] try

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[Am] Take your make-up off, let your hair down, take a deep breath

[F] Look into the mirror, at yourself, don’t you like [C] you?

Cause I like [G] you….!