Toy Story is one of my favorite films. I wouldn’t be afraid to say it’s probably one of the best movies in the past 20 years. Randy Newman wrote “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” as a theme song for the movie. It’s a great song and I’ve always wanted to cover this song on the ukulele. Here is a video of my go at it. Scroll down for the chord chart.

I will say there are a lot of weird chords and changes in this song. There are also a lot of chords that use some different inversions and slash chords, meaning, their is some movement in the bass line.

For example, in the intro, you’ll see chords like “B/G” or “Bb/G.” All this chord means is that you play a B or a Bb major chord and you have a G note in the bass. The chord to the right of the slash is what chord is going to be in the bass. A bass guitar would hit these bass notes.

Because the ukulele doesn’t naturally carry a lot of low end notes, it’s hard to perfectly replicate that sound, so I adjusted as necessary. We just want to worry about playing the chord to the left of the slash.

“You’ve Got a Friend In Me” Chords by Randy Newman

This song has a lot of chords in it, and probably some that we don’t normally use. So you’ll want to refresh yourself on these chord positions. To see the finger positions for the different chords used in this song, scroll down or click here.

Chords Used in “You’ve Got a Friend In Me”

Here are the finger positions of the chords used in “You’ve Got a Friend In Me.” You can look up other variations of these chords using my ukulele chord library.

Once you’ve figured it all out, let me know you think! I’d love to hear how it’s going for you. Post a comment below.

C major

F major

A major

Bb major

B major

Cmaj7

C7

D7

E7

G7

G#7

A7

B7

C#min7b5

Am

Em

F#dim7

Bdim7

Gaug7