Campfire Songs!

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  • Jam10
    Jam10 Posts: 654
    Some campfire songs that I like to play are:

    Yellow Ledbetter
    Betterman
    Elderly Woman behind the counter in a small town
    Man of the Hour
    Immortatilty
    Rockin in the Free World
    State of Love and Trust
    Porch
    Release
    Thumbing My Way
    Nutshell
    Got Me Wrong
    Heaven Beside You
    Down In A Hole
    Everlong
    Times Like These
    River of Deceit
    One (U2)

    I'm trying to learn.....Over the Hills and Far Away, by Zeppelin. I think that would be a great campfire acoustic song.
  • IGotShit76
    IGotShit76 Posts: 768
    IGotSh#t-76 wrote:
    Nice thread as it gave me some ideas about new songs to learn.

    A few more choices
    - Foo Fighters : Times Like These
    - U2 : One
    - Radiohead : Karma Police, Lucky
    - Led Zeppelin : Thank You (Chris Cornell unplugged version is cool)
    - Red Hot Chili Peppers : Desecration Smile

    I forgot to mention Hey Ya from Outkast ... really fun to play.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Jam10 wrote:

    I'm trying to learn.....Over the Hills and Far Away, by Zeppelin. I think that would be a great campfire acoustic song.

    I can play the acoustic intro to taht, but hten it gets weird during the verses. The timing is hard, and I haven't worked it out yet. Haven't looked at it for a while though, and I'm a better player than last tiem I looked. Thanx for teh push to looka t aht again.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • Jam10
    Jam10 Posts: 654
    lucylespian wrote:
    I can play the acoustic intro to taht, but hten it gets weird during the verses. The timing is hard, and I haven't worked it out yet. Haven't looked at it for a while though, and I'm a better player than last tiem I looked. Thanx for teh push to looka t aht again.
    Yeh I can play the intro too. You're right about the verses being tricky to play. That's where I'm stuck. I learned the intro awhile ago and haven't looked at the song lately. I'll have to look at finishing it soon.
  • savman
    savman Posts: 230
    Some classics already!!!!
    how about 'I walk the line'- Johnny Cash
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Parting Ways
    Creep
    Somebody's Crying
    Wicked Game
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Gotta add some more:

    Yellow Ledbetter
    Little GTO (oh, this is a great one)
    You Don't Know-JJ Jackson
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
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  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    Some David Bowie:

    Space Oddity - is a cool acoustic song and you can get everyone to countdown “ten to one- Liftoff” starting at the 2nd verse if no one knows the words. Easy song , just get the B#maj 7th - Am - G -F chords at "Planet Earth is blue".

    Life on Mars - may be a little harder to play and sing, but everyone will yell IS THERE LIFE ON MAAAAARS.

    Hey Jude - always gets everyone singing DAA DAA DAA DADADA DAA at the end and you can milk that if for like 10 minutes of drunken out of tune singing by everyone.

    Wild Thing,,,,, you make my heart sing. And if you’re really close to the campfire you can do the official Jimi Hendrix Monterey Pop ending and burn that guitar.
    Or maybe someone else will be throwing it in for you! ;)

    Louie Louie - is a great party song.

    La Bamba

    If you remember the song “Wipe Out”. Fun riff to play and you get everyone to bang out that drum beat on whatever they’re near. Great fun.

    Kinks - Lola
    Rod Stewart - “Do you think I’m sexy” is pretty funny.

    Talking Heads - Burning Down the House. At least people join in with the burning down the house part. Easy to play.
    I just played “Once in a Lifetime” the other night. Everyone likes to yell “Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was”

    Those are pretty easy. If you want to try some out of the box stuff, I don't know what your picking level is but: -

    Sail to the Moon - Radiohead
    Try fingerpicking Like Spinning Plates. Everyone seems to like that one but it's hard to play.

    Also - Roxanne by the Police


    Haha,,, why do I think of these now but I never remember them at a party! :D
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