I'm also member of a German ukulele forum, and lately they started a "Theme of the month"-section, where you choose songs according to a given topic.
This month's topic is "City-Country-River", that is, songs with references to Cities, Countries and Rivers.
I decided to limit myself to river tunes, record an instrumental version with uke and mandolin and let the others guess what river the tune is about.
So far, I came up with 6 tunes:
-"Mississppi": a big 70s hit in Europe for the band "Pussycat" from the Netherlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5r9UQNKXqM&t=42s
-The murder ballad "Banks of thr Ohio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9m25IaNZGA
-"Volga Boatmen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxU1tyCv1qw
-"Bald gras ich am Neckar, bald gras ich am Rhein": German folk song including two rivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc0hXe0TUYg
"Flow gently sweet Afton" based on a poem by Robert Burns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlSx0dcDP8
-"Waves of the Danube" Waltz by the Romanian composer Ion Ivanovici
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F954UecspQY
But now, I'm running out of ideas. Ten river tunes would be nice.
Do you have any ideas?
-The river's name should be in the tune's title (unlike "Take me home..., where the Shenendoah river is mentionedI)
-It should be an existing river, not something like "Moon River".
-It would be nice if the song or tune had a melody, that, played on the mandolin, was easily recognizable and the tune was rather easy to reproduce.
-Free sheet music for public domain tunes would be ideal.
-Language doesn't matter, since I don't plan to sing, but will stay true to my uke and mando. (and a little tenor guitar...)
I'm sure, you know some great river tunes, that simply do not come to my mind.
Thanks in advance for the ideas!
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