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We Wish You a Merry Christmas Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
—
Key
G
Time
3/4
Tempo
100 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D4

We Wish You a Merry Christmas 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

AECgG2C00002A7000D700200D7222AECgEm22320C0022D7002G02G000AECgD722G020D720GEm200D75222CD7002AECgG0

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 — We wish you a merry Christmas

Bar 3 — we wish you a merry Christmas

Bar 5 — we wish you a merry Christmas

Bar 7 — and a happy new year!

Bar 9 — Good tidings we bring to you and your kin

Bar 13 — Good tidings for Christmas and a happy new year

Trad. English, 16th c. — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

We Wish You a Merry Christmas is in G and opens on D4. 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 100 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 52 notes across 17 bars, from D4 up to D5 in 3/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 5 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the We Wish You a Merry Christmas cross-instrument hub.

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