Hal Leonard The Ukulele 3 Chord Songbook Ukulele Songbook

Aimee Cowles

June 2, 2025

Why hide additional lyrics? Makes learning difficult

I have some knowledge of music through choir, but I'm new at the ukulele. With this book, I can pick up the ukulele and just make music and have a good time. I'm so glad I bought it. I really like that it gives you the first note so that you can start out on tune. I like that the chord diagrams are printed as needed throughout the music so you always see the diagram when you need to play it. (Some books only print the chord diagrams the at the top of the page.)

What I don't like is in some (but not all) of the songs, the second and successive versus are referred to with the phrase "See additional lyrics", and then printed at after the music. When you're new and playing a song that sometimes changes chords every measure or more than once a measure, you don't have time to go looking for the lyrics. The whole idea of this book is to make it easy to make music and have a good time. That's what makes it special. It essentially means I can play all the songs right away that have all the verses printed with the music, but I have to hold off to play some of songs that I really like until after I have a good grasp on how to play the chords and after I have memorized the music and/or lyrics (because I can't look at both places at the same time). That means about half the book is off limits to me right now.

Happy about this great find, bummed about its limitations.

This is a great songbook

The book is bigger than I expected. I thought it would be a small kinda like a pocketbook of songs but it's a big paperbound book. 8 1/2"x11" at least so its large and easy to read... It's not a chord learning book but rather it has all the songs, all the words and lyrics and all the Ukulele chords. You can see from the screenshot that this could most likely be used as a piano book as well for vocals.

If you can play the C,F, and G chords on the Uku then I would recommend this book... Keep in mind however that many of these songs need to be played in other chords as a lot of the music sounds "weird" and off-key.