Sweet, Sweet Music

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

I have played five instruments in my life, none exceptionally well but enough to get by. One instrument close to my heart was the ukulele, mainly because it was the instrument of choice around the campfire at both girl scout and church functions. It was the 1960s and we sang songs like Kumbaya* before it became the butt of jokes.

I finally bought a soprano ukulele and have played it until the pads of my fingers are sore and my arthritic fingers won't move (growing older is a bitch). My goal is to learn to play Tonight You Belong To Me as played on the ukulele by Steve Martin in The Jerk.

Jules and Vincent spent a good part of their usual evening nap time circling the instrument and smelling the new arrival. Jumping two feet off the floor was also involved.

* Kumbaya (meaning Come To Me)  is an African-American spiritual song from the 1930s. It enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s and became a standard campfire song in scouting and nature-oriented organizations. The song was originally associated with human and spiritual unity, closeness and compassion (source).  I can certainly understand why lyrics like those would make me a leftist socialist commie tree-hugging hippie.

I recorded a song on my iPhone voice memo and converted it to a mp3. Maybe I can figure out how to post it when it isn't so late.