Dirty Old Town 4 Easy Chords Ukulele Tutorial and Play Along
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Learn this 1949 song by Ewan MacColl based on Salford, England.
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Thank you Lisa for a great tutorial . The original lyric written by MacColl contained the line, "smelled the smoke on the Salford Wind." This displeased the Salford council to the point where they pressured MacColl to change it to "smelled the spring on the smoky wind."
Glad you enjoyed it. My inner history nerd loves hearing more about these fabulous songs.
@@TheUkuleleFool 10 out of 10.......no many people research these sangs and jist assume they are irish because they are popular in ireland. it's sangs like this that made the dubliners. the fledgling irish bands in the late 50s/early 60s adopted many english and scottish sangs.
Thanks!!! I love learning the history of songs.@@brucecollins641
MacColl was a literary genius. He lead the UK Theater revivle (This song came from a MacColl play scene change), the UK Folk revivle (see "River Thames Flow Sweetly" and "My Old Man" ) He drove the invention of the UK radio play/ documentary featuring real, working class people with music written to accompany ( see "Sholes Of Herring", "North Sea Holes," "The Big Hewer", "Freeborn Man", "Moving On Song"), and he was also prominent in the "Right To Roam" protests which took common land back off the rich (see "The Manchester Rambler") He was a political activist, He was a lyricist extraordinaire to his dying days, penning many beautiful songs including "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" made famous by Roberta Flack and the beautiful end of life song "The Joy Of Living" He was father to the late Kirsty MacColl who was a brilliant artist in her own right and was famous for the female lead in the Pogues mega Xmas hit "The Fairytale Of New York"
I'm taking notes. Thanks for indulging my history nerd!!!! I am working on The Fairytale of New York right now. Got the strums figured out for this week's tutorial.
@@TheUkuleleFool There's been many covers of MacColls songs, most of which he passionately hated. This is a sweet take on Shoales Of Herring from a movie. Would maybe work on Uke for something more thought provoking? ruclips.net/video/NWJz_-hseJQ/видео.html
Love the song, and. Love the history you showed. Really brings the old working class area alive. Thank you
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Thank you so much. If it hadn't been for the pandemic and the work of uke players in the UK and Germany to keep the ukulele community going, I never would have encountered this song.
Great song. Loved playing imperfectly along with you. Finally got that cowboy strum working. You are the best!
Awesome! Thank you!
Loved this song as I bought the Pogues debut album back in the 80's. Your tutorial has made it fairly easy for me to have a go at but I'll need to practice my strumming. I'll also change the lyrics so I can play the 'Virgil Van Dyke' song (Liverpool FC captain) which is sung by Liverpool supporters to their hero.
So glad I could help you on your ukulele journey. I'll have to look of Virgil Van Dyke. I don't watch sports - I'm too busy running with my dogs.
Just listened to your Superheroes Pandemic Pluckers video and remembered this song. Great stuff. I’ve joined the FB page for the Pluckers.
Great folks. I need to drop in for a jam again soon.
A favorite song for sure. (You are one of my favorites too) Thanks for all that you do for us.
That’s so sweet of you to say. I am grateful to the opportunity to learn songs from folks across the globe through Zoom. I learned this song from Jeff in the UK.
You’ve done it again, Lisa! Marvelous tutorial and performance. I sure hope everyone appreciates all your hard work that goes into these videos!!!
Thank you so much! I am glad you appreciate it. I joke that I really am a video editor these days.
Just found this -thanks so much for putting this up, really enjoyed the post and "Play Along".
This song is one of the gifts from the Pandemic. I joined ukulele players in the UK and learned this song.
Just found this. It’s great!
It's a fantastic song.
Really enjoyed this. I’m in Manchester, just across the river from Salford. And to be honest both were still very dirty when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. More Ewan McColl songs please.
I hear you about dirty towns in the 70's and 80's. I grew up in a dirty town - but it wasn't as old as Salford, and it didn't get bombed during WW2 either.
Great tutorial - just found this and will keep as a favourite. Keep up the good work!!
Thanks, will do! This was one of the great songs I learned because of the pandemic. I now have wonderful uke friends in the UK.
I am even older to the party on this song than you.
I heard it for 1st time pre St Patrick's Day 2024.
I did not especially like it. I listened to it again 3 days after St Patrick's Day.
Suddenly it captured me. I fell in love with it. I especially enjoy
songs that I can play using the Cowboy Strum with accessible
chords.
Thank you thank you for the tip
on how to make playing the Em chord easier.
Stopping as part of the play to allow time to get fingers in place.
Brilliant.
Will that work on other songs
like Mr Bojangles?
Glad you enjoyed it. I started working on Angel from Montgomery. It will come out in late April. Hope you enjoy the strum I picked.
@@TheUkuleleFool Yes, I need help
on "Angel from Montgomery"
I tried learning to play "Angel from
Montgomery" about 4 months ago.
I could not play it adequately &
stopped trying. I couldn't do a strum
pattern, so I was using single strums.
The two main chords D & G were
so slow for me.
@@TheUkuleleFool One more excellent song, I just learned to play
is "Sounds of Silence"
It has the four easy chords. But
I can't work in a strumming pattern
Except down strums.
Also, there is a great simple finger-picking pattern that some people use. I can't finger pick.
But, I am trying to use the simple
finger-pick just on the intro or
intro & 1st verse. Help me to play it.
Play using thumb & Index finger
Play strings pattern 3. 1 . 2. 1
repeat quickly over & over
Simple but I am not adept at it
Thank you so much, you're amazing! Hugs from Brazil ;)
You're welcome! There are some fabulous ukulele players in Brazil. I took a group lesson with Aline Kelly. It was fantastic.
Loved this tutorial. Found you on Beginner Hints and Helps :D I didn't realize this song was so old :O
Good to hear from you Sharla Rae - I have run across you before on social media. Thanks for stopping by. I love doing my history nerd stuff. My day job is at a university.
I used my index finger for the Am chord, then fingers 2, 3 and pinky for the Em, giving me a swift change to G early in the next verse . I really love your hacks and cheats and seeing if I can adapt them to make the next change easier still.
So glad I can help.
Love this song and your tips for spicing it up. Thanks!
You're so welcome!
I love the dramatic pause before Em. No need to rush. BTW Sheffield is the dirty old town featured in the movie The Full Monty.
Cool! I haven't watched that movie in forever. That would be a good one to see again.
Salford is in Manchester and its were d.s
Lowery painted his pictures of matchstick men .there is also a song from the late seventies called matchstick men it's about lowery and Salfords smokey tops.take a look and listen to the song and enjoy lowerys paintings
Thanks! I will look that up!
It's news to me that Salford is in Manchester. They are 2 separate cities.
Salford is a towen in the greater Manchester Borough eg part of Manchester that's why giggs Scholes nevil and becks brought Salford City f.c
Thas probably were the confusion comes from 😇😇😇
Brilliant lesson Lisa.
Thank you so very much Sheila, and thank you for leaving a comment.
Wow...I liked the history part a lot in this :) Thank you..
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved kissed my girl by the gasworks wall.
Isn't that a great phrase!?!? The reference "Spring's a girl from the streets at night" even makes spring something not quite so fresh.
Love this song, gonna try for sure. Thank you so much
Have fun with it. My husband is playing it non-stop.
Loved this 😊
Thank you!! 😊
I used to work in Salford
Was Salford dirty then? Or had it cleaned up? From photos I found on the web I saw that it had been bombed during WW2. When I was going to school in London in the early 80s I would see during my wanderings evidence of the bombings. I am sure that in 1949 that contributed to the dirty old town aspect.
Really nice 👍
Thanks 😊
I've been to Galway ...Wonderful town ... And as a cat person my favorite line is : "Cats are prowling on their beat" :)
Good to hear from you. I haven't been to Galway. Closest I ever got was Shannon airport.
"i subscribed" and am glad i did great vids
Welcome aboard!
Lisa... DANKE for providing time stamps! They are helpful!
The "History Nerd"-section totally flies w/ me... really interesting! I just don't understand what the year span 1940 - 1980 refers to. And what exactly is an MI-5 file?
Secret Service
MI 5 is British Intelligence. Glad you like my history nerd section. The 1940-80 were the years that Pete Seeger (I referenced his sister) was active on the American Music scene. He is a huge icon in American folk music, and like Ewan McColl had ties to the Communist Party.
@@TheUkuleleFool much obliged!
This was fun!
It is super popular across the pond.
Very fun!
I was trying to see what kind of ukulele you were playing. What is it?
It is a concert Koa Wood Hricane. A great instrument. This spring they were offering it on sale for $63 on their website.
There’s a bit of controversy regarding your claiming the Pouges are an English band as three of the members were born in Ireland and others have had Irish roots. Irish Americans have long considered them Irish despite what some Brit may write on Wikipedia.
Nice job on the song, I’m going to try that strum.
Good to know. I can do corrections on Wikipedia - I should do that, huh? Thanks!
Better (5 chords): G, Em, C, Am, D. x
I'm sure that would be better for my voice. Trying to keep the chords super beginner friendly.
A Republican likes this?
Working class republicans!!
@@TheUkuleleFool was that before the 8hr day or after it ?