Author Archives: Sage Harrington

This is one of them golden oldies. I had forgotten that it was from 1911, as the versions I know of so many of these jazz tunes were recorded by Ella and her cohorts in the 1930s or later. I’d also like to add — if you’re feeling melancholy right now, that’s totally okay and […]

This song breaks my heart in a way that it can only be broken when I realize that another artist has recognized some truths about my experience and put it down in a song decades before I was even born. I love this song by Molly Drake. I have been so preoccupied with it that […]

Oh, I could let the world go byIts loud new wonders and its warsBut how could I give up the skyWhen winter dusk is set with stars?And I could let the cities goTheir changing customs and their creedsBut, oh, the summer rains that blowIn silver on the jewel-weeds! This is a poem by Sara Teasdale […]

Today I am proud to present my arrangement of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps! I love this tune. The first time I remember hearing it was in the hit 1990s Baz Luhrmann classic (in my mind anyway) film Strictly Ballroom where Doris Day’s version provided the soundtrack to a sexy secret tango. Thank you to the patrons […]

Nature Boy! What a cool, weird song. I grabbed the chords online and came up with the little ukulele figure that opens and closes the tune. I love the ukulele and I love jazz tunes <3 Would you be interested in tabs for this sort of thing (the intro/outro)? I would consider making them if […]

Now what is that cute little instrument featured here, you may ask? It is my friend charango and she is so sweet. A Bolivian/Andean instrument also known as the super ukulele. She is loud. She is brash. She is here to be heard and she is not kidding around. And I love her! She has […]

This song was written by Bob Nelson, and my arrangement is loosely based on Ukulelezaza’s excellent one. I love this song. It’s one of the very few hawaiian songs I have in my repertoire. Gotta remedy that situation. In other news, patrons paid my rent this month! I am so excited and grateful for that. […]

After approximately 42 takes yesterday to then push, push all the furniture in my apartment around and continue on to do what felt like 37 more takes, here is my offering to you today. It took a pandemic to get me here, folks, because, it’s not like I have anything else on the agenda so […]

A song I wrote in December 2012. It’s funny coming back to these old songs and looking at them again through today’s lens nearly a decade later. This song is sort of speaks to climate change and it is sort of a cartoonish and whimsical fantasy story. It’s easy to make the jump from flood […]

I was intimidated to record this one today but once I got going I didn’t stop. I learned about this wonderful singer songwriter Yumi Arai because of the Miyazaki films her songs are featured in. I have the biggest artist’s crush on her! This melody! It is so beautiful and sad! I can’t handle singing […]