Where was YouTab back when I was busking and needed to not just look up song chords and lyrics, but also practice regularly?
Point your browser at YouTab.me and enter the name of a song. In this case, I picked a relatively popular, relatively simple little ditty: I Wanna Be Sedated by The Ramones…
A quick search later, I got this screen. YouTab had the song, so I clicked on it…
YouTab then displays a player for the song that shows the chords as the song plays. If it has the lyrics in its database, it also displays them:
Click the screenshot to see it at full size.
There’s also a facility for users to enter and correct chords and lyrics for songs.
This is still a pretty new site, so it’s not going to have every song you might want to look up. The more popular a song is, the more likely it’ll appear in YouTab’s database, and the more likely that data will be correct and complete.
Give it a try, and if you can, help complete its database, which has many gaps. For starters, as of this writing, the karaoke ’80s favorite Jessie’s Girl by Rick Springfield is missing lyrics!
Help fix this. Do it for Rick Springfield. Do it for the common good. Do it for “Dang” (Ken Leung) from the movie Keeping the Faith:
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