This is a screen-capture video from a TuneLing for "Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)" from the album "Can't Buy A Thrill", by Steely Dan.

This song is also available in a separate TuneLing video for guitar!

Notes:

This a deep but wonderful cut, from Steely Dan's first album, with a gorgeous lead vocal by David Palmer - who only ever recorded a few songs with the band - before they kinda stopped being a band at all, and just became studio creatures.

It's not really difficult, despite having a lot of chords, including a few unusual ones - this is Steely Dan, after all.

It's also surprising effective and playable on ukulele! On both guitar and uke, the song is pretty straightforward, but there are a couple of things to watch out for:

1) In bars 55 and 56 of the instrumental section, there are a couple of chords that only occur there! On guitar, we show that single Am7 chord with an added G on the first string, just because it sounds better with the record than the normal two-finger open Am7 - but you can use the normal shape if you like.

2) On the uke, the Am7 chord really is all four strings played OPEN - that's not an error!

3) Most importantly, the B-flat/C ("B flat over C") chord (the very first chord) really establishes the harmonic magic of the song, simple though it might be. On guitar, yes, it really is a plain barre over the middle four strings, but it's critical to NOT play the first and sixth strings! You can simply mute them with the same finger that plays the barre. So it's unusual, but not at difficult.

This one is a gem, and really fun to play, so ENJOY!

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