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For He's a Jolly Good Fellow Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
—
Key
G
Time
6/8
Tempo
132 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D5

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow on ukulele

The full melody, rendered as four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: g C E A (re-entrant High G) · Strum: D - - D - -

AECgVerseG7G77707CG877D700000GD7700AECgG77707C877D7777870G07AECgBridgeD777777D777GC77788G700AECgRepriseG77707CG877D700000GD7700AECgG77707C8777D777780G0

Arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G (gCEA) ukulele. On Low G, Baritone or D tuning the app re-fingers the same melody live. Left-handed? The app can mirror the whole tab.

Lyrics

Bar 1 — For he's a jolly good fellow

Bar 3 — for he's a jolly good fellow

Bar 5 — for he's a jolly good fellow

Bar 7 — which nobody can deny

Bar 9 — Which nobody can deny

Bar 11 — which nobody can deny

Bar 13 — For he's a jolly good fellow

Bar 15 — for he's a jolly good fellow

Bar 17 — for he's a jolly good fellow

Bar 19 — which nobody can deny

Trad. (Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, 18th c.) — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow is in G and opens on D5. This tab is arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G ukulele: the fourth string (the top of the written tab, marked g) is tuned above the two strings under it, which is why a melody can dip onto the open g and come out sounding high — that's the instrument's signature, not a misprint. If you play Low G, the app re-fingers the same melody for your tuning live.

Pick the melody with alternating thumb and index, or the index alone on slower pieces, and keep your fretting fingers curled so open strings ring clear. Set the metronome under around 132 BPM, watch the tab rather than your hands, and loop the bar your take review grades worst until it comes back clean twice in a row. By the numbers, this setting runs 79 notes across 21 bars, from G4 up to E5 in 6/8 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the For He's a Jolly Good Fellow cross-instrument hub.

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