Belle and Sebastian - Allie: Ukulele Chords

Learn to play "Allie" on your ukulele with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to play this song on the ukulele, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

Learn Allie ukulele chords and lyrics

This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the ukulele chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform "Allie" smoothly on your ukulele.

Em   G                 D F#m
Allie, what would you do?
              C
When there's bombs in the middle east,
            Em
you want to hurt yourself
               A
When there's knives in the city streets,
            Em
you want to end yourself
              D
When there's fun in your mother's house,
              C     Am        B
you want to cry yourself to sleep

Em       G             D F#m
Allie, what would you do?
            C                          Em
With your fears, because they're adding one by one
          A                        Em
And your mountains are obscured behind the sun
         D
And the person that you could be is
 Em       G     C
crumbling into dust

       G                        C
You're in the mess 'cause you thought
       G
You'd be someone else

Chorus:
            Am                       Em
'Cause the tricks in your head are a lie
            Am                       Em
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie
            D
Yeah, the tricks in your head are
   Am                      Em
Tricks in your head are a lie

Allie, hand on your head
And a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library
And if you looked from here, you would surely see
There's a softness in your heart,
there's a poetry to come

You bought that gun cause you thought
You'd be someone else

Chorus

     D                       C
You made a list of all your heroes
          D                             C
And you thought about what they went through
            Am                            G
Yeah, you thought about what they went through
           F
It's much darker, much harder,
      C                         D
than anything that happened to you

Allie, what would you do?
When your seven-year plan happens to someone else
And the people in your life you would happily shelf
When day falls night, you are truly on your own?

You're in this place cause you thought
You'd be someone else

Chorus

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie
Yeah, the tricks in your head are a
Tricks in your head are a lie

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Ukulele Chord Diagrams

A

Ukulele chord A

Am

Ukulele chord Am

B

Ukulele chord B

C

Ukulele chord C

D

Ukulele chord D

E

Ukulele chord E

Em

Ukulele chord Em

F

Ukulele chord F

F#m

Ukulele chord F#m

G

Ukulele chord G

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each ukulele chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Allie" on the guitar, check out the chords on our sister site: Guitar Chords for "Allie" by Belle and Sebastian.

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