Sing-Along Guitar Songs: Folk & Rock Guitar Songs
(with transposable chords and lyrics)

This simple, elegant, printable online songbook, with chords and lyrics for many of my favorite songs, began as a binder of typewritten songs that my mom assembled before I was born. When I left for college, I taught myself guitar from these songs and began adding transcriptions of more songs that I enjoy.

To me, this music means something about family. To others, it's about summer camp, or the '60s, or maybe it's just about good songs. In any case, I thought I'd carry on the legacy of what my mom began and make these songs freely available to

others who want to learn guitar, or are looking for easy songs to play, or who want to host a sing-along, or are heading to a jam session and need the chords to some old favorites.
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  • For your convenience, there are versions of this page with songs ordered by title, artist, and first line.

The Songs

1.A child arrived just the other day 68.I've been working on the railroad all the livelong day 135.Sit by my side, come as close as the air
2.A dragon stalked the hills and the glens of Dunkirk long ago 69.If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning 136.Soal, soal, soal cake, please good missus a soal cake
3.A long time ago when the earth was green 70.If I listened long enough to you 137.Somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota
4.A long, long time ago 71.If I were free to speak my mind 138.Start tearing the old man down
5.A personal friend of the Czar was I 72.If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone 139.Suzanne takes you down the her place near the river
6.A winter's day, in a deep and dark December 73.In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine 140.Sweet Sir Galahad came in through the window
7.All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go 74.In my mind, I'm goin' to Carolina 141.Swing low, sweet chariot
8.Almost heaven, West Virginia 75.In the early mornin' rain, with a dollar in my hand 142.Take me to the night I'm tipping
9.And here's to you\dots 76.In the land of Oden, there stands a mountain 143.Tell me why you're crying my son
10.And when I die, and when I'm dead, dead, and gone 77.In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia 144.Tell ya' little story and it won't take long
11.April, come she will 78.Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight 145.Ten years ago on a cold dark night
12.Are you going to Scarborough Fair 79.It ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe, if you don't know by now 146.That's what you get for loving me
13.As I sat down one evening 'twas in a small cafe 80.It takes a worried man to sing a worried song 147.The police in New York City
14.As I walked out in the streets of Laredo 81.It's a lesson too late for the learning 148.The countryside was cold and still
15.As I walked out over London's bridge 82.It's cold here in the city, it always seems that way 149.The cruel war is raging, Johnny has to fight
16.As I've travelled through this land 83.It's five o'clock this morning and the sun is on the rise 150.The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
17.As we marched down to Fennario 84.It's so nice to meet an old friend and pass the time of day 151.The old home town looks the same as I step down from the train
18.Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots, and 85.Jesse James was a lad, he killed many a man 152.There must be some way out of here
19.Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine 86.Jesus met the woman at the well 153.There is a house in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun
20.Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train 87.Just a little rain, falling all around 154.There is a ship, and she sails the sea
21.Cecilia, you're breaking my heart 88.Just got home from Illinois 155.There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range
22.Clouds so swift, rain fallin' in 89.Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone 156.There was a ship that sailed along the lowland sea
23.Come gather 'round people wherever you roam 90.Know me by the light of a fire shinin' bright 157.There was a timewhen I was so broken- hearted
24.Couple in the next room bound to win a prize 91.Last night I had the strangest dream 158.There were three ravens sat on a tree
25.Desperado,why don't you come to your senses 92.Let me tell you of a story 'bout a man named Charlie 159.There's a new world somewhere, they call the promised land
26.Erev shel shoshanem 93.Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together 160.There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in
27.Every mornin' 'bout seven o'clock 94.Light one candle for the Maccabee children 161.There's a young man that I know
28.Four strong winds that blow lonely 95.Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky 162.This land is your land, this land is my land
29.Frankie and Johnnie were lovers, oh Lordy how they could love 96.Living on sponge cake, watching the sun bake 163.Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well
30.Get you a copper kettle 97.Lo yisa goy el goy cherev, Lo yilmedu od milchama 164.Through the woodland through the valley
31.Go away from my window, go at your own chosen speed 98.Look out of any window 165.Times have changed
32.Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, hang down your head and cry 99.Love, love, love 166.To everything - turn, turn, turn
33.He came from his palace grand 100.Love, oh love, oh careless love 167.Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
34.He is now to be a mong you at the calling of your hearts 101.Ma, take this badge off of me 168.Tonight you're mine completely
35.He was a most peculiar man 102.Messieurs qu'on nomme grands, je vous fais une lettre 169.Took my fam'ly away from my Carolina home
36.He was born in the summer of his 27th year 103.Michael row your boat ashore, Hallelujah 170.Twas eighteen hundred and sixty-one
37.He's five foot two, and he's six foot four 104.Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter 171.Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train
38.Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk to you again 105.My friend assures me, ``It's all or nothing 172.We come on the sloop John B., my grandfather and me
39.Hey Jude, don't make it bad 106.My name it means nothing, my age it means less 173.We had some chickens, no eggs would they lay
40.Hey Nellie, Nellie, come to the window 107.My seed is sown now, my field is plowed 174.We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band
41.Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me 108.Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na 175.Well met, well met, my own true love
42.Hey, where did we go days when the rain came 109.Nights in white satin, never reaching the end 176.What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine
43.How many roads must a man walk down 110.No use crying, talking to a stranger 177.What will you do when you get lonely
44.I am a man of constant sorrow 111.O the time will come up when the wind will stop 178.What's that I hear now, ringin' in my ear
45.I am a man of constant sorrow 112.Oh sinner man, where you gonna run to 179.When I find myself in times of trouble
46.I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told 113.Oh, I marched to the battle of New Orleans 180.When I first came to this land, I was not a wealthy man
47.I close my eyes, only for a moment and the moment's gone 114.Oh, the bullets of the false revenge have struck us once again 181.When I think of heaven
48.I had an uncle name of Matthew, was his father's only boy 115.Oh, the fox went out on a chilly night 182.When I wake up early in the morning
49.I have good news to bring, and that is why I sing 116.Oh, the prairie lights are burnin' bright, the chinook wind is movin' in 183.When I was a bachelor, I lived all alone
50.I heard there was a secret chord 117.Old Mr. Johnson, he had troubles all his own 184.When I was a little lad, my mother always told me
51.I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by 118.Old Stewball was a race horse 185.When I was a young man and never been kissed
52.I magine there's no heaven 119.On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair 186.When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me
53.I met a boy called Frank Mills 120.On a wagon bound for market 187.When I was just a wee little lad, full of health and joy
54.I pulled in to Nazareth, I was feeling about half past dead 121.On a warm summer's evening, on a train bound for nowhere 188.When I was young I used to wait
55.I should have known you'd bid me farewell. There's a 122.On the first part of the journey 189.When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town
56.I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl 123.Once I had a little dog, his color it was brown 190.When your weary, feelin' small
57.I was standing by my window 124.Once I had a sweetheart, and now I have none 191.Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing
58.I was twenty and she was eighteen, we were 125.Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong 192.Wherever you go, wherever you may wander in your life
59.I will never love you, the cost of love's too dear 126.One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fires were burning 193.While riding on a train goin' west, I fell asleep for to take some rest
60.I wouldn't want to be a chimney sweep all black from head to foot 127.Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat 194.Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night, sailed off in a wooden shoe
61.I'll walk in the rain by your side 128.Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment 195.You fill up my senses like a night in a forest
62.I'm in love with a big blue frog, a big blue frog loves me 129.Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea 196.You get a shiver in the dark, it's
63.I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town 130.Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central, Monday morning rail 197.You may think that I'm talking foolish
64.I'm not sayin' that I love you 131.Risin' up, back on the street 198.You read about Samson and you read about his birth
65.I'm ridin' along this track, I got tears in me eyes 132.Rock-a my soul in the bosom of Abraham 199.You take a stick of bamboo
66.I'm sitting in the railway station 133.She grew up in an Indiana town 200.You, who are on the road
67.I've been thinking about our fortune 134.Show me the prison, show me the jail 201.oo- oo- oo- oo