Bob Marley - Real Situation ukulele chords

Today we'll tackle one of my favorite Bob Marley songs - Real Situation. It transfers very well to the ukulele. Here's a video of me jammin' on it with my daughter chatting it up in the background!





The chord formations that I'm using throughout the song are all bar chords. If you want to use standard chords with open strings, that's fine too. For this song, I like the bar chords though. Feel like it gives me better control over muting the chord. But whatever works for you is just fine! Like I always say, the beauty of music is that it's open to individual interpretation - what sounds good to me might sound awful to you. Have fun with it!
If you need help finding the few chords in this song, check out EZ folk's ukulele chord chart or one of my favorite ukulele resources, the online ukulele chord finder. Both of these will give you several variations of each chord so you can find the ones that are most comfortable for you. Here we go....


Bob Marley - Real Situation for the ukulele

Intro chords: G, C, G, D

G...................................C
Check out the real situation
G.................................C
Nation war against nation.
G................................D......................Em
Where did it all begin?
.........................C
When will it end?
..................G............................D........................G.........................D
Well, it seems like total destruction the only solution
................................G...........C...........................G
And there ain't no use: no one can stop them now.
D.................G.........C.........................G
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now.

See! Pretty simple! Just repeat for the rest of the verses and have fun jammin' on this one.