Favorite songs to strum and sing
 

Do you have favorite songs to just pick up an acoustic and sing and strum? Something simple where you can just think about clean chords instead of fancy finger work?

Currently I'm partial to:

He'll Have to Go (Gentleman Jim Reeves)
Waterloo Sunset (the Kinks)
Jamaica Farewell (Harry Belafonte)

So what brings instant joy to you? Could be any era, any flavor.

Jim

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
John Prine - Paradise

Plus one of my own songs:

I like the first song my wife ever heard me sing in 1980. We were in a car pool and she came to my house to pick me up. I didn't hear her knock and the door was open, so she came in and I was singing Paul Siebel's Louise. She tells folks that I won her heart with a song about a dead hooker.

It's still a favourite of mine. Five chords in G. Think I'll go and play it now.

Well they all said Louise was not half bad,
It was written on the walls and window shades,
And how she's act the little girl,
A deceiver, don't believe her, that's her trade.

Sometimes a bottle of perfume,
Flowers or maybe some lace.
Men bought Louise ten cent trinkets,
The intentions were easily traced. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjNR-Vn9JF8

Louise is a fine tune. I’ve sung it for years.

Redemption Song by Bob Marley

Snuff by Slipknot. Yes really. https://youtu.be/QBK6xymmKHM
Nothing else matters by Metallica
Let her go by passenger - normally skipping the intro and jumping into verse 1 if I just want to strum

Sister Golden Hair - America
Small Town - John Mellencamp
Peaceful Easy Feeling -Eagles

"Aimee" - Pure Prairie League
"Into The Great Wide Open" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Things We Said Today" - The Beatles
"Harvest Moon" - Neil Young

Desperados Under The Eaves - Warren Zevon

I'm going through a period of 1960s LA country rock...

Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
America - Simon & Garfunkel
I'll Be Back - Beatles
Holly Holy - Neil Diamond
Portland Town - Schooner Fare
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Yesterday's Gone - Chad & Jeremy
Railroads & Riverboats - Jim Croce
Light One Candle - Peter, Paul & Mary
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano

Melissa is a good strummer :)

House Of The Rising Sun
Don’t Think Twice

"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down". Such a terrific "sour grapes" love song.

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