Holly Jukebox 2020 - #14 - Soldier Blue (Buffy St Marie acoustic cover)

Welcome to Holly Jukebox 2020! Today's song is 'Soldier Blue' by Buffy St Marie,and it's from the ever wonderful Ian Hughes, to all his American hippy Facebook friends 🙂 Thank you for the request Ian! Goodness me - what a lot of key changes! This was one of the most difficult Jukebox tunes to work out, as there are SO many chords it made my head spin! This also took me 11 TAKES to get right... The original song is so full of passion though, it's impossible not to love it. Hopefully I've done it justice 💙 For the guitarists - This is in standard tuning and, as I said, there's just a million chords in it - please feel free to follow my fingers shapes if you want to play along 🙂 WHAT'S HOLLY JUKEBOX? Now somewhat of a Christmas tradition in my house, the Holly Jukebox Challenge is a self-imposed charity song marathon between 1st - 25th December. The deal: In exchange for a donation to York Mind, I take song requests from my family & friends & supporters in the month leading up to the challenge, then upload a request every day in December to my YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/hollytaymar) and Facebook & Instagram (@hollytaymar) The reason I do this is to: 1. Keep me out of mischief in the big bad Winter 2. Spread some festive cheer and hopefully a few laughs as I try and get to grips with all manner of requests 3. Raise some much needed cash for awesome local charity York Mind! I think we can all agree that 2020 has tried it's best to batter our collective mental (and physical) health, and I'm super-excited to kick this year where it hurts by doing something good and raising as much as I can to help folks who are really struggling. You can find out how my incredible colleagues at York Mind are supporting people in York, find info and self-refer for help, here: http://www.yorkmind.org.uk If you'd like to make a donation towards my fundraising, please do so here: http://www.justgiving.com/HollyJukebox2020 The song request calendar is now FULL for December 2020 - so if you haven't got a request in, sadly I'm not taking any more - but please feel free to follow my progress on YouTube if you like! Thanks everyone!

Added 9 Oct 2026