I Don't Know (Original ukulele song)

(G)I don't know why questions fill my (D)mind
(G)I don't know why questions fill my (D)mind
(C)Answers always (G)seem to bide their (D)time
(C)Answers always (D)seem to bide their (G)time

I don't know why some some birds just don't sing
Silence is a cold and lonely thing

(G)I don't know what I should do to (Am)bring the spring again
(C)Plant a garden, (D)harvest what (G)I grow
(G)Go up in the mountains, (Am)watch the snowmelt flow
(C)Down clean granite (D)to the land of (G)man

I don't know why evil has no name
'Cause I know his face and see the pain

I don't know how long I've got to live
Time to find out what I've gotta give

I don't know too many things but one thing that I do
Is that I'm grateful for those few fine years
Gathered up my happiness, held back all the tears
For the day when I knew I'd lose you

I don't know the answer or the way
'Till I do all I can do is play

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There's an extra "chord" following the first G, which is just a matter of dropping a pinky on the fifth fret of the A string. The chordfinder has no answer to what it is. Free mp3s of most songs at http://www.mediafire.com/uke5417

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[fourteentwelve]

Lovely song Bruce! I love your originals. Great solo with this one too, and harmonising vocals. You've mixed it really nicely.

[uke5417]

Thanks, Michelle. Meeting russbuss and watching him play really inspired me to try more solo bits. He's amazingly good.

[uke5417]

Coming at you in 3-D in the new one.

(But you're right, in this one I look sort of like the WW of the W in "Oz":

"I'm melting, I'm melting! What a world, what a world!)

[alanfromdarwen]

love this, well done,

[uke5417]

Thanks, Alan. Looking forward to your next, funny or no.

[irvingjohn]

Awesome. Loved the solo parts, and the lyrics are just great.

[uke5417]

Thanks, King of the Forest. (Dang that was good)

[mctrmt]

Bruce, you seem to be getting smaller and smaller, and the background blacker and blacker.

Nice song.

[DonfromMT]

That's good to hear, Bruce, but you've already got this route dialled.

[uke5417]

Thanks, Todd. Happy one comin' down the pike.

[uke5417]

Too true