So I published a version of Love Yourself by Justin Bieber with full ukulele chords, and afterwards I realized I was playing it in the original Key, which sounds fantastic, but it had a lot of E chords in it.
If you’ve been playing ukulele for a minute, I’m sure you know that the E chord is difficult to play as a beginner, and you’ve probably been trying to come up with ways to avoid it. That’s okay in the beginning, but we’ll get that chord mastered as part of our Basic Chord Mastery program in the future, for now…
Focusing on that nasty E chord does not make for a great beginner ukulele song, so I transposed the key and changed it to the key of C. This allows for much easier playing of this great song.
First Verse
C G Am
All the times that you rain on my parade
F C G
And all the clubs you get in using my name
C G Am
You think you broke my heart oh girl for goodness sake
F C G
You think I’m crying on my own, well no I ain’t
C G Am
And I didn’t wanna write a song cause I didn’t want anyone thinking I still care
F C G
I don’t but you still hit my phone up
C G Am
And baby I be movin’ on and I think you should be somethin’
F C G
I don’t wanna hold back maybe you should know that
1st Pre-chorus
Am F C
My mama don’t like you and she likes everyone
Am F C
And I never like to admit that I was wrong
Am F C G
And I’ve been so caught up in my job I didn’t see what’s going on
Am F G
And now I know I’m better sleeping on my own
1st Chorus
C G Am F
Cause if you like the way you look that much
C G C
Oh baby you should go and love yourself
C G Am F
And if you think that I’m still holdin’ on to somethin’
C G C
You should go and love yourself
2nd Verse
C G Am
But when you told me that you hated my friends
F C G
The only problem was with you and not them
C G Am
And every time you told my opinion was wrong
F C G
And tried to make me forget where I came from
C G Am
And I didn’t wanna write a song cause I didn’t want anyone thinking I still care
F c G
I don’t but you still hit my phone up
C G Am
And baby I be movin’ on and I think you should be somethin’
F C G
I don’t wanna hold back maybe you should know that
2nd Pre-chorus
Am F C
My mama don’t like you and she likes everyone
Am F c
And I never like to admit that I was wrong
Am F C G
And I’ve been so caught up in my job didn’t see what’s going on
Am F C G
And now I know I’m better sleeping on my own
2nd Chorus
C G Am F
Cause if you like the way you look that much
C G C
Oh baby you should go and love yourself
C G Am F
And if you think that I’m still holdin’ on to somethin’
C G C
You should go and love yourself
3rd Verse
C G Am
For all the times you made me feel small
F C G
I fell in love now I feel nothin’ at all
C G Am
I never felt so low when I was vulnerable
F C G
Was I a fool to let you break down my walls
Last Chorus
C G Am F
Cause if you like the way you look that much
C G C
Oh baby you should go and love yourself
C G Am F
And if you think that I’m still holdin’ on to somethin’
C G C
You should go and love yourself
C G Am F
Cause if you like the way you look that much
C G C
Oh baby you should go and love yourself
C G Am F
And if you think that I’m still holdin’ on to somethin’
C G C
You should go and love yourself