Kokomo Ukulele Chords

Song: Kokomo
Artist: Adam Green
Tabbed by: Pautu
 
Standard tuning
 
 
n/chord:
 
Aruba, Jamaica, uh I wanna take ya, Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go to Jamaica...
 
 
Verse 1:
                C    Cmaj7
Off the Florida Keys
 
C7                       F      Fm
  There's a place called Kokomo
 
                 C                 Dm              G7
That's where you wanna go to get away from it all
 
C                Cmaj7
Bodies in the sand
 
C7                       F            Fm
  Tropical drink melting in your hand
 
                    C                       Dm
We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band
 
G
  Way down in Kokomo
 
 
 
Chorus:
 
C                                         F
Aruba, Jamaica, uh I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
 
      C                                           F
Key Largo, Montego...Baby why don't we go down to Kokomo,
 
       Fm                           C               (*fill-> A sting: 3-2-0
We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow       last note hits at the
                                                        following Am chord)
Am               Dm         G
That's where we want to go
 
                 (C)
Way down in Kokomo
 
End-fill:
 
e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------|
A|--3---2h3---2h3-2h3-2h3------|
E|-------------------------3\--|
 
 
Verse 2:
 
C                 Cmaj7
We'll go out to sea
 
C7                  F        Fm
  And perfect our chemistry
 
                   C                  Dm       G7
By and by we'll defy a little bit of gravity (uoho)
 
C             Cmaj7
Afternoon delights
 
C7                 F             Fm
  Cocktails and moonlit nights
 
                          C                       Dm          G
That dreamy look in your eye gives me a tropical contact high
 
 
Way down in Kokomo
 
 
 
-->(Chorus w/ both fills)
 
 
-->(saxo solo) over verse chords (C Cmaj7 C7 F Fm C Dm G)
 
 
 
Verse 3:
 
C            Cmaj7
Everybody knows   (everybody knows)
 
C7                     F      Fm
  A little place like Kokomo
 
            C                Dm              G
Now if you wanna go to get away from it all
 
 
go down to Kokomo
 
 
 
-->Chorus x2 (first time acapella, till 'Way down in Kokomo' where guitar comes
in again (no end-fill in here) and continues for the second time):
 
  G
...Way down in Kokomo
 
C                                         F
Aruba, Jamaica, uh I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
 
      C                                           F
Key Largo, Montego...Baby why don't we go down to Kokomo,
 
       Fm                           C              (*fill)
We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow
 
Am               Dm
That's where we want to go
 
G              C  C  C
  Way down in Ko-ko-mo
 
 
 
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 \ : slide down
 H : hammer-on
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