A Compilation of Sing-Along, Folk, & Rock Guitar Songs
(with chords and lyrics)

Background: My mom has been transcribing and collecting songs for her guitar longer than I've been around. In recent years, I've started adding to these my own transcriptions of songs I enjoy. To me, many of these songs mean something about being a kid, singing with my mom, and being home with my family. Now, with a little one on the way, I am hoping to pass the same songs on to another generation.
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Some of the songs I have transcribed use a slightly nonstandard notation convention, whereby 'somewhat' I mean to say that I invented it and am surely the only person who uses it. So you could complain, or you could read about it and understand my brilliance ;)

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For your convenience, there are versions of this page with songs ordered by title and by artist.

The Songs

1.A child arrived just the other day 64.I've been working on the railroad all the livelong day. 127.Soal, soal, soal cake, please good missus a soal cake.
2.A dragon stalked the hills and the glens of Dunkirk long ago. 65.If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, 128.Start tearing the old man down
3.A long time ago when the earth was green 66.If I listened long enough to you, 129.Suzanne takes you down the her place near the river,
4.A personal friend of the Czar was I, 67.If I were free to speak my mind, 130.Sweet Sir Galahad came in through the window
5.A winter's day, in a deep and dark December. 68.If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone. 131.Swing low, sweet chariot,
6.All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go. 69.In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine 132.Take me to the night I'm tipping topsy turvy turning upside down.
7.Almost heaven, West Virginia, 70.In my mind, I'm goin' to Caro-lina 133.Tell me why you're crying my son,
8.And here's to you . . . (chorus) 71.In the early mornin' rain, with a dollar in my hand 134.Tell ya' little story and it won't take long,
9.And when I die, and when I'm dead, dead, and gone 72.In the land of Oden, there stands a mountain, 135.Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
10.April, come she will. 73.In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, 136.That's what you get for loving me.
11.Are you going to Scarborough Fair? 74.Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight 137.The countryside was cold and still,
12.As I sat down one evening 'twas in a small cafe, 75.It ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe, if you don't know by now. 138.The cruel war is raging, Johnny has to fight.
13.As I walked out in the streets of Laredo, 76.It takes a worried man to sing a worried song. 139.The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
14.As I walked out over London's bridge, one misty morning early, 77.It's a lesson too late for the learning, 140.The old home town looks the same as I step down from the train,
15.As I've travelled through this land 78.It's cold here in the city, it always seems that way 141.The police in New York City,
16.As we marched down to Fennario, 79.It's five o'clock this morning and the sun is on the rise. 142.There is a house in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun.
17.Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots, and 80.It's so nice to meet an old friend and pass the time of day, 143.There is a ship, and she sails the sea.
18.Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, 81.Jesse James was a lad, he killed many a man, 144.There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range. . . His
19.Busted flat in Baton Rouge waitin' for a train 82.Jesus met the woman at the well, 145.There was a ship that sailed along the lowland sea,
20.Cecilia, you're breaking my heart, 83.Just a little rain, falling all around. 146.There was a time when I was so broken-hearted
21.Clouds so swift, rain fallin' in 84.Just got home from Illinois 147.There were three ravens sat on a tree,
22.Come gather 'round people wherever you roam, 85.Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone. 148.There's a new world somewhere, they call the promised land,
23.Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, 86.Know me by the light of a fire shinin' bright, 149.There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in.
24.Desper-ado, why don't you come to your senses? 87.Last night I had the strangest dream 150.There's a young man that I know,
25.Erev shel shoshanem 88.Let me tell you of a story 'bout a man named Charlie 151.This land is your land, this land is my land,
26.Every mornin' 'bout seven o'clock, 89.Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky, 152.Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well,
27.Four strong winds that blow lonely, 90.Living on sponge cake, watching the sun bake 153.Through the woodland through the valley comes a horseman wild and free
28.Frankie and Johnnie were lovers, oh Lordy how they could love. 91.Lo yisa goy el goy cherev, Lo yilmedu od milchama. 154.Times have changed.
29.Get you a copper kettle, 92.Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day 155.To everything - turn, turn, turn,
30.Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, 93.Love, oh love, oh careless love. 156.Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine,
31.Go away from my window, go at your own chosen speed. 94.Ma, take this badge off of me 157.Tonight you're mine completely,
32.Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, hang down your head and cry. 95.Messieurs qu'on nomme grands, je vous fais une lettre, 158.Took my fam'ly away from my . Carolina home
33.He came from his palace grand, 96.Michael row your boat ashore, Hallelujah, 159.Twas eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
34.He is now to be among you at the calling of your hearts 97.Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter 160.Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train,
35.He was a most peculiar man. 98.My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing." 161.We come on the sloop John B., my grandfather and me.
36.He was born in the summer of his 27th year, 99.My name it means nothing, my age it means less. 162.We had some chickens, no eggs would they lay.
37.He's five foot two, and he's six foot four, 100.My seed is sown now, my field is plowed. 163.We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band.
38.Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk to you again. 101.Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na, 164.Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he.
39.Hey Jude, don't make it bad 102.Nights in white satin, never reaching the end. 165.What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine,
40.Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the window. 103.No use crying, talking to a stranger 166.What will you do when you get lonely,
41.Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me, 104.O the time will come up when the wind will stop, 167.What's that I hear now, ringin' in my ear?
42.How many roads must a man walk down, 105.Oh sinner man, where you gonna run to? 168.When I first came to this land, I was not a wealthy man.
43.I am a man of constant sorrow, 106.Oh, I marched to the battle of New Orleans 169.When I think of heaven
44.I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told. 107.Oh, the bullets of the false revenge have struck us once again, 170.When I wake up early in the morning,
45.I close my eyes, only for a moment and the moment's gone. 108.Oh, the fox went out on a chilly night 171.When I was a bachelor, I lived all alone,
46.I had an uncle name of Matthew, was his father's only boy. 109.Oh, the prairie lights are burnin' bright, the chinook wind is movin' in 172.When I was a little lad, my mother always told me,
47.I have good news to bring, and that is why I sing, 110.Old Mr. Johnson, he had troubles all his own, 173.When I was a young man and never been kissed,
48.I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds. 111.Old Stewball was a race horse, 174.When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
49.I met a boy called Frank Mills 112.On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair 175.When I was just a wee little lad, full of health and joy,
50.I pulled in to Nazareth, I was feeling about half past dead. 113.On a wagon bound for market, 176.When I was young I used to wait
51.I should have known you'd bid me farewell. There's a 114.On a warm summer's evening, on a train bound for nowhere 177.When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town
52.I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl 115.Once I had a little dog, his color it was brown. 178.When your weary, feelin' small,
53.I was standing by my window, 116.Once I had a sweetheart, and now I have none. 179.Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
54.I was twenty and she was eigh-teen, we were 117.Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong 180.Wherever you go, wherever you may wander in your life.
55.I will never love you, the cost of love's too dear. 118.Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat 181.While riding on a train goin' west, I fell asleep for to take some rest.
56.I wouldn't want to be a chimney sweep all black from head to foot 119.Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment, 182.Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night, sailed off in a wooden shoe,
57.I'll walk in the rain by your side, 120.Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea, 183.You fill up my senses like a night in a forest,
58.I'm in love with a big blue frog, a big blue frog loves me. 121.Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central, Monday morning rail 184.You get a shiver in the dark, it's raining in the park but
59.I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town. 122.Risin' up, back on the street 185.You may think that I'm talking foolish,
60.I'm not sayin' that I love you, 123.Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham 186.You read about Samson and you read about his birth.
61.I'm ridin' along this track, I got tears in me eyes, 124.She grew up in an Indiana town 187.You take a stick of bamboo,
62.I'm sitting in the railway station, 125.Show me the prison, show me the jail, 188.You, who are on the road
63.I've been thinking about our fortune 126.Sit by my side, come as close as the air.