About
Uke Skywalker is Andy Stein’s collection of ukulele songs: lyrics with chords, and for many songs the melody written as numbers. It is free, shows no ads and earns nothing. It is mainly for learning and for playing with friends.
Reading a song page
Chords are in square brackets just before the syllable where they change: [G] Abigail, can you feel my [C] heart. The Chords buttons at the top switch between Inline, Above (chords over the lyrics) and Off (lyrics only).
The key menu at the top of each song changes the key. The song’s own key and any other keys Andy plays it in come first.
Andy’s Voice is the lowest and highest note Andy sings in the song, in scientific pitch notation, where C4 is middle C.
The melody numbers
Many songs have the melody in a column on the right, written as numbers. Each number is a note of the song’s key: in the key of G, 1 is G, 3 is B and 5 is D. Because the numbers are relative to the key, they stay the same when you change key.
| Written | Meaning |
|---|---|
1 to 7 |
A note of the scale, in the middle octave |
6. |
One octave lower; two dots for two octaves |
1' |
One octave higher |
7m |
The note lowered a half step (here, a flat 7) |
1-2 |
Two notes sung on one syllable |
| a wider space | A break between words or phrases |
The melody switch at the top of each song hides or shows the column. The site remembers your choice.
Source
The site is built with Quarto from plain text files in github.com/iamstein/ukeskywalker. Each song is one file in the songs/ folder.
Andy’s other website
Andy also has a pharmacometrics website, TrinityMetrics.com.