The list below are the songs that happen to be in my binder after eight months of attending our group. If the name of a song in the list looks like a link, then it is... most of them will take you directly to the PDF on the Bytown Ukulele Group webpage, where you can print your own copy. Links in brackets after the artist name are an experiment.
The 15 songs marked with * at the end are the ones that, in my unscientific opinion, are the ones that we 1) play the most and 2) are easiest for a beginning player.
Hole punching advice: If a song is two pages, print it single-sided, then hole punch it so that it will lie open in your binder - that is, on the RIGHT side of the first page and the LEFT side of the second page.
- 1234 - Feist
- After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
- Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches
- The Big Rock Candy Mountains - Harry McClintock *
- Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell (warning - NOT the key we play it in!)
- Blue Moon of Kentucky - Patsy Cline (UG)
- (suggested by Linda) Breathless - William Prince
- Christmas in Prison - John Prine
- Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
- The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell (key of C)
- Closing Time - Semisonic
- Cotton Jenny - Gordon Lightfoot (UG)
- (suggested by Meg) Dear Abby - John Prine
- Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan
- Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot
- Escarpment Blues - Sarah Harmer
- Everything is Free - Gillian Welch (link to illegal copy) *
- Fairytale of New York - The Pogues (link to Bytown, but I've been working on a version more like the Vance Joy interpretation than the original)
- Four Strong Winds - Ian Tyson
- The Fox - Traditional
- Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead (UG) (link to bad photocopy) (link to clean copy in BUG style) *
- Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
- Hard Times - Gillian Welch (UG) *
- Harvest Moon - Neil Young
- Heart of Gold - Neil Young
- Helpless - Neil Young
- Here Comes the Sun - George Harrison
- He's Fine - The Secret Sisters
- Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes (UG)
- I'll Fly Away - apparently Alfred Brumley, but we're all thinking Alison Krauss *
- In Spite of Ourselves - John Prine and Iris Dement *
- Jolene - Dolly Parton
- (suggested by Kirsten) Kwe (Changing Into Thunderbird) - Ansley Simpson
- Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver
- Let the Mystery Be - Iris DeMent *
- Little Again - The Secret Sisters
- Make Me A Pallet - Gillian Welch
- Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard - Paul Simon
- Must be Santa - Originally Mitch Miller, but we all love Raffi!
- (suggested by Kirsten) A New Name for Everything - The Weakerthans
- Ooh La La - Faces
- Orphan Girl - Gillian Welch *
- Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash (actually written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore)
- Riptide - Vance Joy *
- Shotgun Song - Gillian Welch
- Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
- Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot
- Song for the Mira - Allister MacGillivray
- Spanish Pipedream - John Prine
- Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies
- (The) Swimming Song - Loudon Wainwright
- Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver *
- Teach Your Children - Graham Nash
- Three Little Birds - Bob Marley *
- Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show *
- Wayfaring Stranger - Johnny Cash *
- (suggested by Kirsten) We Could Fly - Rhiannon Giddens
- We're going to be Friends - White Stripes
- Wheat Kings - the Tragically Hip
- Wildflowers - Dolly Parton *
- Wildflowers - Tom Petty / Wailin' Jennys *
- Wildwood Flower - June Carter Cash
- Winter's Come and Gone - Gillian Welch (UG)
- You Are My Sunshine - Traditional
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