On Thursday 7th December 2023 we acknowledge history and pay our respects to the fallen with patriotic songs as well as songs about our love for America. On this day in 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor changed the course of the second world war.
How many days in a calendar year can you play these songs? The following list is not yet exhaustive.
- Martin Luther King Jr (3rd Monday in January)
- Inauguration Day (January 20th in each 4th year)
- President’s Day (February)
- National Vietnam War Veterans Day (March 29th)
- Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts and Maine only (3rd Monday in April)
- Loyalty Day (May 1st)
- Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday in May)
- Memorial Day (last Monday in May)
- Flag Day (June 14th)
- Juneteenth (June 19th)
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day (first Monday in September)
- Patriot Day 9/11 remembrance (September 11th)
- Constitution Day (September 17th)
- Columbus Day – Discoverer’s Day (2nd Monday in October)
- Election Day (November, Tuesday next after the first Monday)
- Veterans Day (November 11th)
- Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November)
- Pearl Harbor Day (Dec 7th)
Join us in Zoom or in person at the Walter Baker Building in Boston, Massachusetts. After this one hour song session, we will have a break and set up for Holiday Songs Workshop at 4:30 PM. Get your copy of “Fun with Uke” Book to join us in the hybrid workshop.
The warm-up lesson at 3:00 PM EST will be “Listen and Guess the Chords and Chord Progression.“
The Line-Up
- My Daddy’s Uncle Sam in G [3] – Paul (GA) (2-page PDF) play along to video
- This Land is Your Land in C [3] – Maureen (MA) – open for tagging
- Anchors Aweigh in G [5] & Grand Old Flag C [5] – Boni-esther (MA) (1-page PDF)
- Medley Yankee Doodle Girl in C [5] & Grand Old Flag in D [6] – Susan (MD)
- America the Beautiful in A [7] – Debbie (HI) (2-page PDF)
- Star Spangled Banner in C [7] – Bruce (IT) (1-page PDF)
Song Suggestions
- America – Neil Diamond
- America from West Side Story
- American Tune – Simon & Garfunkel
- America (My Country Tis of Thee)
- America the Beautiful
- American Pie – Don McLean
- Back in the USA
- Blue Sky
- Born in the USA – Bruce Springsteen
- Free Bird
- God Bless America
- God Bless the USA
- I Want to Live in America
- I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Kids in America
- Red, White and Blue
- Star Spangled Banner
- Surfin’ USA
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- This Land is Your Land
- Wagon Wheel
- When the Saints Go Marching In (in F [4] 1-page PDF landscape)
- Yankee Doodle
- You’re a Grand Old Flag
There are many three chord songs but 3 Chord Thursday is not limited to 3 chords!! We always start with a warm up at 3 pm EST followed by two poses for a group photo with our sunglasses and ukuleles. Then we announce our line-up. If there’s no request beforehand, we take impromptu requests and line them up. We aim to end an hour later at 4 pm EST.
What time do we meet?
- 21:00 CET (Venice, Italy)
- 20:00 GMT (UK)
- 3:00 PM EST (East Coast USA)
- Noon PST (West Coast USA)
- 10:00 AM HST (Hawaii) – there’s no daylight savings in Hawai’i
Don’t forget your sunglasses!
- Register in Zoom for the Zoom link.
- Request a song to perform in advance to get in the line-up.
- Sign up for the FREE Ukulele Enthusiast e-Blast
