Good-bye nursing school.<\/p>\n
I cobble together a music career, playing piano and guitar, but never forget that sweet little ukulele. It has called to me over the years.\u00a0Come back lady\u2026come back.<\/em><\/p>\n Then one day my husband Craig adopts one and brings it home. Like a new puppy or something. Soon enough I get my own, strap on a leash and take it to my gigs. Just like that, Craig and I fall madly in love with the ukulele. What was once a curiosity, a passing fling, has become the\u00a0hot spot<\/em>\u00a0in our lives.<\/p>\n What is it about the ukulele that makes it SO friendly, SO joyful to play? This humble little thing, with it\u2019s plastic strings–only four of them–that can snap you out of a bad mood or give you a second wind when it feels like your life is grinding into the dirt. What is it about the ukulele that gets big people singing along and little people discovering\u00a0they can sing along?<\/em>\u00a0Maybe for the first time.<\/p>\n \u201cOO-KOO-LAY-LAY”<\/p>\n This tune is from my first ukulele album \u201cAre You Having Any Fun?<\/a>\u201d A couple months ago I did an arrangement for my ukulele class, The CC Strummers. Thank God they liked it (I mean, you never know\u2026) and we gleefully learned it together. Then I started getting reports from the grandmoms and granddads in our classes how they are singing the song and teaching it to their little ones\u2026and big ones. Then they show me the home videos on their smart phones, the spontaneous duets, and my heart just goes \u201cahhh.\u201d<\/p>\n The CC Strummers and I debuted \u201cOO-KOO-LAY-LAY\u201d at The Santa Monica Ukulele Festival last month. My husband Craig shot the video and I had more fun than is legal adding the lyrics so you can sing along, kind of like watching the bouncing ball.\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0to see the whole spectacle and to \u201cput a smiley, smiley, smiley in your day-ay.\u201d<\/p>\n I want you to learn this song and take it to the streets! So I\u2019ve attached the ukulele chart below. It\u2019s a gift that I hope will keep on giving.<\/p>\n Of course I\u2019d love for you to download the song from\u00a0iTunes<\/a>, Amazon<\/a> or CD Baby<\/a>\u00a0so I can make a whopping 70 cents! You know the old joke: How do you make a million dollars playing the ukulele? You start with two million dollars.<\/p>\n You may want to check out my album \u201cAre You Having Any Fun?<\/a>\u201d too. Listening to it will make you feel mighty fine!<\/p>\n And a little of THAT goes a long way!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Way back when, I remember mastering three chords on the ukulele–in the blessed key of C–so I could sing and play a few songs for the injured veterans at my local VA Hospital. I am in nursing school and my fellow students and I are doing our first semester clinical rotation, learning all we can about giving sponge baths to naked men\u2026 During our lunch break I grab my little soprano\u00a0what-ever-it-is\u00a0ukulele and serenade a ward of guys, imprisoned in their … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogentry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"blog entry"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cali Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/author\/crbauthor\/"},"comment_info":2,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"blog entry","slug":"blogentry","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":139,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":139,"category_description":"","cat_name":"blog entry","category_nicename":"blogentry","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"funcover\"](\"http:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/funcover.jpg\")
<\/a>I have asked myself this question over and over and finally decided the ukulele is\u00a0a mystery to be played, not solved!<\/em>\u00a0So why not write a song about it? Put those feelings of \u201cahhh\u201d into words and music. And here it is:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"