Here’s the song I brought to the last Wednesday meeting. With a tuning in F, it is a very easy song for the ukulele, even if it may take time to figure out the chords changes. The version I presented was the one from Roy Orbison:
The version from Cyndi Lauper was made later but published earlier. Who knows whether Roy Orbison’s late recording would have ever found an audience without it?
As bonus, here’s a cover from The Maccabees. They played it slowly, however preserving the melancholic nature of the song.