On Thursday 30th March 2023, we will share songs about birds. To prepare for our third anniversary on 6th April, the opening warm-up lesson will cover how to play Happy Birthday in four different keys. Don’t miss it! We start at 3 PM EDT (8 PM BST) and end an hour later. 3 Chord Thursday, the thematic song session in Zoom, founded at the beginning of the pandemic, is open to anyone anywhere in the world, recorded on YouTube video for review and reflection.
The Line-Up
- The Cry of the Wild Goose in Gm [3] – Rose Marie [KS] (3-page PDF)
- Pretty Flamingo in G [4] – Anne (MA), Rose Marie (KS) (1-page PDF) (video)
- Birds and Bees in D [7] – Bruce (MI) (2 page PDF)
Song Suggestions
- Bird Set Free
- Birds (Imagine Dragons)
- Birds and the Bees (2-page PDF)
- Blackbird (The Beatles)
- Bluebird (Electric Light Orchestra)
- Bye, Bye Blackbird
- Canary in a Coal Mine
- Disco Duck (Rick Dees)
- Eagle (ABBA)
- Eagle and the Hawk, The (John Denver)
- Eagle When She Flies (Dolly Parton)
- Feed the Birds (Mary Poppins)
- Fly Like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
- Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- Hummingbird (Seals & Croft)
- I’ll Fly Away
- Little Bird (Annie Lennox)
- Mockingbird (James Taylor & Carly Simon)
- Pretty Flamingo in G [4] – Anne (MA), Rose Marie (KS) (1-page PDF)
- Red, Red Robin, The (Doris Day)
- Rockin’ Robin (Bobby Day)
- Skylark (Linda Ronstadt)
- Skyline Pigeon
- Snowbird (Anne Murray)
- Three Little Birds [3] (Bob Marley)
- Time for Me to Fly
- When Doves Cry (Prince)
- When the Red, Red Robin …
- Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler)
- Wings of a Dove (Hal Ketchum)
- Yellow Bird [3]
To participate, be sure you have subscribed to 3 Chord Thursday to receive the new Zoom link. Request a song you’d like to perform via the Song Request Form. We always start promptly at 3 PM EST (8 PM GMT) with a warm-up lesson.
- Register in Zoom for the Zoom link – you only need to do it once to get access to the remaining sessions in Winter 2023. You can register as many times as you’d like, whenever you like, if you forget the Zoom link meeting ID or password.
- Register via Google Form to choose your subscription and pay accordingly. Otherwise you won’t get admitted from the Waiting Room.
All sessions will be livestreamed and recorded for review purposes. You can switch off your webcam if you don’t want to be seen. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel to get e-mail notification of the livesream recording. After the session ends, the livestream video will get UNLISTED. Only session participants and YouTube Channel subscribers will have the video link in their e-mails.