“Pearly Shells” . . . . Classic old Hawaiian song now available in as a Chord/Melody arrangement by Ukulele Mike Lynch . . . . Contained in the Chord/Melody eBook THREE
Burl Ives performance of Pearly Shells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCA4Kskmjc
Pearly Shells (Pupu A `O `Ewa) is an old Hawaiian song. The English lyrics were written by Webley Edwards and Leon Pober
This arrangement is on the fairly easy end . . . there is not so much barring and when we do have barring it is not too difficult . . . Below is an excerpt from the opening few measure .
Here is yet another short excerpt to give you an idea of the difficulty of the piece . .
At measure 11 we merely barre the index finger across the 5th fret and then place the little finger on the 8th fret. . . . Same goes for measure 12. . .
Here is a clip from the Bridge of the song . . . Notice the chromatic shifts between the G chord. Simply shifting the G chord…
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