Take the A Train on Ukulele (Fingerstyle) 

Here’s the ukulele chords progression for the song “Take the A Train” by Billy Strayhorn, popularized by Duke Ellington in 1939. The song quickly became the Ellington band’s signature tune, referring to the A line on the subway going from Brooklyn into Harlem and northern Manhattan. The song has since become a standard, covered by everyone from Bob Wills to Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Joe Henderson, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Earl Hines, Henry Mancini, Joe Pass, Joe Venuti, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, and many, many more.
This video is filmed on a tenor ukulele, though you could also play this arrangement on a concert or soprano ukulele. I developed this fingerstyle arrangement using different inversions, or voicings, which I use to move the melody up the neck. This way I can still maintain chord shapes, giving the tune a chord-melody feel. If you’ve been looking to get started playing acoustic arrangements or jazz standards on your ukulele, give my channel a follow! I offer both cover videos and tutorials at different levels.