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Sumo’s Song

If there’s Leo’s Song, of course, there’ll be one for my Sumo.

The two are really night and day. As I often say (apparently, I like to repeat myself) one is like an Express Stream dog, the other is in Normal Stream with a future in beauty school.

But although Sumo is faster, he gets too excited, too eager, too fast and that makes him rash and behave aggressively.

I did want to record this last week, but over enthusiastically cut nails and equally over enthusiastic strumming gave me a blister on the edge of my finger.

So here I go again, embarrassing myself with an off-key rendition of Sumo’s Song.

The chords are G, D (with a high D), C, D

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Leo’s Song

Guess who I found in my ukulele case after I recorded Leo's Song?
Guess who I found in my ukulele case after I recorded Leo’s Song?

This is a song that I thought up after looking into the blank eyes of Leo, who, after 6 months of training, still isn’t paper trained.

It took me 6 weeks to teach Leo how to shake hands. Now that Leo knows how to shake hands, when I command “down”, he offers his paw.

I did this song in GarageBand, starting by laying down the drum track, then played out the bass track on the computer keyboard.

Then I played the ukulele, sang the song and added the barks.

The chords are F, C5? (CGCG), Am, G

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