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Old MacDonald Had a Farm Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
1917
Key
G
Time
4/4
Tempo
108 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
G4

Old MacDonald Had a Farm 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 DU

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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 — Old MacDonald had a farm

Bar 3 — E-I-E-I-O!

Bar 4 — And on that farm he had a cow

Bar 7 — E-I-E-I-O!

Trad. American, 1917 collection — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Old MacDonald Had a Farm is in G and opens on G4. 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 108 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 25 notes across 8 bars, from D4 up to B4 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Old MacDonald Had a Farm cross-instrument hub.

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Soloist Ukulele reads this four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) under the notation and grades your take on-device, note by note — free on iPhone, no ads, no account.

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