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I would say it might have been Mary Had a Little Lamb or Sparkling Stella from Mel Bay's lesson book #1 then it was on to Malaquenia and Grenada which my grandmother taught me by pointing to the notes - she couldn't read music but she could play nearly any string instrument -her father made guitars, mandolins, harps etc. back in Southern Italy.
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Like someone else in this thread, my first was "Greensleeves" in early 1973. It was the only song I recognized in an old Mel Bay book that was lying around the house that day I was home sick from school. I can still recall the bitter struggle wrangling that B7 chord.
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That was the first song I learned on bass. Did I mention I could play it while simultaneously jumping on a pogo stick and reciting the national anthem backwards after three days of practice ? >:P~ I think my first song was "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio. I had a Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine with the tab in it. I was so ecstatic that it actually sounded like the song, I was beside myself. However, if I could have sang the vocals half as good as Ronnie Dio, I would have done the best Pete Townsend impression ever and turned the guitar into splinters. Man Ronnie Dio could sing RIP !!! Bryant
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Tom Dooley by the Kingston Trio
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Pity how it seems like current country is consumed with produicing stereotypical, pop teen female angst, Party Hardy, or I'm so country fried, I drive to town on my tractor wrapped in the flag. " It's a strange strange world we live in Master Jack" The song I first learned was a smash it in 1964, again the prototypical first for many babyboomers "House of the Rising Sun" considered as the launch song of Folk Rock.
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Stand By Me - Oasis (acoustic version) First one I learned start to finish.
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Can't recall exactly, but it was probably from Pete Seeger's "America's Favorite Ballads," maybe Careless Love.
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When I was about 10 I picked out the Pink Panther theme, (poorly), but many years later, I think the first song I could play and sing was "Dear Abby", by John Prine, or it might have been "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", by Hank Williams.
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Smoke on the Water. No open chords. No chords that started on anything other than low E. It still took me a day or two to get it right.
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My first song was "Daytripper"
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The theme from "Bonanza".
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Eleanor Rigby. It only takes C and Em... I played keyboards in a band that wanted to do a Beatles medley and swap instruments during the songs. Eleanor Rigby became my guitar part because it was the easiest to teach me, the only non guitar player of the 5 of us.
I got hooked and bought my first guitar about a month later.
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"Teach Your Children" by CSN was the first song I remember playing. The 2nd song was, I think, was Peaceful Easy Feeling by Jackson Browne (and the Eagles)
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