“Any time you use more than three chords, you’re just showing off!”
– Woody Guthrie
If you have a few chords under your fingers, here are over a hundred songs you can already play! I’d love to teach you or your group just how much fun you can have as a beginner. You can contact me, here.
| With Only One Chord (Tonic) |
| Frere Jaques 4/4 |
| Where is Thumbkin? 4/4 |
| Row Row Row 6/8 |
| Three Blind Mice 6/8 |
| Honkey Tonkin’ 4/4 |
| I & V Chords Only (Tonic & Dominant) |
| EASIEST | |
| Ain’t Gonna Rain 4/4 | Do Your Ears Hang Low 4/4 |
| Apples & Bananas 4/4 | Down At The Station 4/4 |
| Doggie In The Window | Eensy Weensy Spider 6/8 |
| Down In The Valley 3/4 | Found A Peanut 3/4 |
| Dreidl Song 4/4 | Go Tell Aunt Rhody 4/4 |
| Go Eat Worms 4/4 | I Know An Old Lady 6/8 |
| Hokey Pokey 4/4 | Mama Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird |
| Iko Iko 4/4 | Memphis Tennessee 4/4 |
| Jambalaya 4/4 | Ms Murphy’s Chowder 4/4 |
| Mexican Hat Dance | My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mntns 4/4 |
| Tom Dooley 4/4 | Oh Tannenbaum 3/4 |
| A LITTLE HARDER | Rock O’ My Soul 4/4 |
| Allouette 4/4 | Skip To My Lou 4/4 |
| Beans In My Ears 3/4 | That’s Amore 3/4 |
| Bought (Got, Had) Me A Cat 4/4 | They All Asked For You 4/4 |
| Buffalo Gals 4/4 | Tom The Toad 3/4 |
| Clementine 3/4 | Wheels On The Bus 4/4 |
| Did You Ever See a Lassie? 3/4 | Whole World 4/4 |
|
I, IV and V Chords (Tonic, Subdominant & Dominant) |
| EASIEST | |
| La Bamba 4/4 | I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow 4/4 |
| On Top Of Old Smokey/Spaghetti 3/4 | I’ll Fly Away 4/4 |
| Pack Up Your Sorrows 4/4 | I’m A Little Teapot 6/8 |
| Paradise 3/4 | I Never Will Marry 3/4 |
| Rock Around Clock 4/4 | I Still Miss Someone 4/4 |
| This Land Is Your Land 4/4 | If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus 4/4 |
| Twist And Shout 4/4 | If You’re Happy And You Know It 4/4 |
| A LITTLE HARDER | Jamaica Farewell Calypso |
| Ain’t No Cure Summertime Blues 4/4 | John B. Sails Calypso |
| All God’s Critters 4/4 | Johnny B Goode 4/4 |
| Amazing Grace 3/4 | King Of The Road 4/4 |
| Banks Of The Ohio 4/4 * | Lean On Me 4/4 |
| Boom Boom 4/4 | Leaning On The Everlasting Arms 4/4 |
| Brahms’ Lullaby 3/4 | Little Boxes 3/4 |
| Bringing In Sheaves 4/4 | Long Black Veil 4/4 |
| Bye Bye Love 4/4 | Long Tall Texan 4/4 |
| Camptown Races 4/4 | Mama Don’t Allow 4/4 * |
| Careless Love 4/4 * | Me And Bobby McGee 4/4 |
| Charlie & The MTA 4/4 | Midnight Special 4/4 |
| Cindy 4/4 | New River Train 4/4 * |
| Coming Thru The Rye 4/4 | Oh Suzannah 4/4 |
| Crawdad 4/4 * | Old MacDonald 4/4 |
| Cripple Creek 4/4 | Old Time Religion 4/4 * |
| Dark as a Dungeon 4/4 | Old Texas 6/8 |
| Deportee 3/4 | Purple People Eater 4/4 |
| Down By The Bay 4/4 | Put Your Finger In The Air 4/4 * |
| Erica Levine 4/4 | Red River Valley 4/4 * |
| Everybody Loves Saturday Night 4/4 | Riding In The Car 4/4 * |
| Feelin’ Groovy 4/4 | Rivers / Babylon Calypso |
| The Fox 4/4 | Study War No More 4/4 |
| Frankie And Johnny 4/4 | Tis A Gift To Be Simple 4/4 |
| Frozen Logger 3/4 | Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 4/4 |
| Going To The Zoo 4/4 | Unicorn Song 4/4 * |
| Goodnight Irene 3/4 * | When The Saints 4/4 * |
| Hallelujah, I’m A Bum 3/4 | Wildwood Flower 4/4 |
| Hills Of Isle Au Haut 4/4 | Will The Circle Be Unbroken 4/4 |
| Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea 4/4 | Yellow Is The Color 4/4 |
| Home On The Range 3/4 | Yakkety Yak 4/4 |
| You Are My Sunshine 4/4 |
* Contains I I7 IV and maybe iv or iv∞ (diminished) sequence in the third line.
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