A couple of song suggestions to help developing the co-ordination of singing and playing:
Blowing In The Wind
Lean On Me
In each of the first verses for these songs, the vocal starts on the downbeat (Beat 1) so off you go to a good start. However, things change when it's chorus time - Blowin' In The Wind's 'The answer my friend' has 'answer' on beat 1 where the chord changes - look out for that. Sing it without playing and see how that feels. In a similar way with 'Lean On Me' the strong downbeat is on 'Me'.
Hope this helps.
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