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• The Aikido Songbook
  • 50 ways to throw your Uke (50 ways to leave your lover)
  • Rawhide (Rawhide)
  • Keiko (The banana boat song)
  • The Power of Aikido (The power of love)
  • Ikkyo (Let it be)
  • There's no Budo (There's no business)
  • Killing me softly with nikkyo (Killing me softly with music)
  • Oh sensei (Oh Carol)
  • Another one bites the dust (Another one bites the dust)
  • Passionate Kisses (Passionate kisses)
  • Cheek to Cheek (Cheek to cheek)
  • Nikkyo for nothing (Money for nothing)
  • I got dem A.M. Aiki Blues after drinking dat P.M. Booze
  • Lay Your Head On My Shoulder (Lay your hand on my shoulder)
  • Aikido (Bicycle race)
• Songbook (part 2)
  • Maria (Maria)
  • Men in Skirts (Men in tights)
  • Hanbo no. 5 (Mambo no. 5)
  • Tenkan (Time warp)
  • Sweet Aikidoka (Sweet transvestite)
  • The Only Shodan (Under the bridge)
  • Does your belt hang low (Do your ears hang low)
  • Bad, Bad Aiki Brown (Bad, bad, Leroy Brown)
  • McAllisters (Margaritaville)
  • I love Aikido (I love rock and roll)
  • It's time for keiko (Deck the halls)
  • Breakfallin' is hard to do (Breaking up is hard to do)
  • The Aikidoka's Throwing Song (The Philosophers Drinking Song)
  • Ai-Ki-Do-L (YMCA)
  • Beautiful Uke (Beautiful loser)
  • Cover of AJ (Cover of Rollin' Stone)
  • In the dojo (In the Navy)
  • Iriminage boy (Rapid boy)
• Songbook (part 3)
  • I put a pin on you (I put a spell on you)
  • Wham! I feel like an uke (Man, I feel like a woman)
  • Just an Aikidoka (Just a gigolo)
  • Just like Hombu (Just like Heaven)
  • Let's call the whole thing off-balance (Let's call the whole thing off)
  • Grandma got atemi-ed by a reindeer (Grandma got run over by a reindeer)
  • Mr. Shodan Aikido (Mr. Touchdown USA)
  • Here boy, drink this
  • The Dojo (Love shack)
  • Aikidoka (Lumberjack)
  • Cover of AJ (Cover of Rollin' Stone)
  • In the dojo (In the Navy)
  • Iriminage boy (Rapid boy)

Ikkyo

sung to the tune of "let it be" by the Beatles

When I find myself in times of trouble
Ueshiba sensei comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom: "Ikkyo"
And in my hour of darkness
He is standing right beside of me
Speaking words of wisdom: "ikkyo"
Ikkyo - nikkyo - sankyo - yonkyo
Wisper words of wisdom: "Ikkyo"

And when you've broken arms on people
unable to take ukemi,
There will be an answer, ikkyo.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, ikkyo.
Ikkyo - nikkyo - sankyo - yonkyo. Yeah
There will be an answer, ikkyo

And when I am exhausted
There is still a thing that comforts me.
Practice is tomorrow, ikkyo.
I wake up to the sound of sensei
Screaming in my ear to me
Let's go out and practice, ikkyo.
Ikkyo - nikkyo - sankyo - yonkyo
There's the Aikido answer: Ikkyo.
Ikkyo - nikkyo - sankyo - yonkyo.
Let's go out and practice: ikkyo.