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Contemporary Folk Guitar
A note from the Maestro: Here are some great folk tunes that provide a good grounding in the folk stylings of the 60s and 70s. Presented are memorable songs, chords, and finger picking styles used extensively by most contemporary folk artists of that era.
Mitch, Jan and Maestro -1968
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Folk Guitar Lessons (19 pages)
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A Heart in New York Simon and Garfunkel Abraham, Martin and John Dion
All My Lovin'
The Beatles
April Come She Will
Simon and Garfunkel
Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan
Blue Traditional Boa Constrictor Song Shel Silverstein
Bob Dylan's Dream
Bob Dylan
Bobby McGee
Kris Kristofferson
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel
Camp Granada Allan Sherman
Changes
Phil Ochs
Day is Done
Peter, Paul and Mary
Did She Mention My Name Gordon Lightfoot
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Don't Think Twice
Bob Dylan
Early Mornin' Rain
Gordon Lightfoot
El Condor Pasa
Simon and Garfunkel
Eres Tu Abba Farewell Angelina Bob Dylan
Five Hundred Miles
Peter, Paul and Mary
For Baby John Denver
For Lovin' Me
Gordon Lightfoot
Go Tell It on a Mountain
Traditional
Going to the Zoo Tom Paxton
Green Green Grass of Home
Johnny Cash
Grenade Bruno Mars He Was My Brother Paul Simon
Hey Jude
The Beatles
House of the Rising Sun
Traditional
Home from the Forest Gordon Lightfoot
Hurry Sundown
Peter, Paul and Mary
Hymn Peter, Paul and Mary I Can't Help It... (If I'm Still in Love with You) Hank Williams I Don't Know How to Love Him Andrew Lloyd Webber I Have a Song to Sing Gilbert and Sullivan
I Never Will Marry
Traditional
If I Had a Hammer
Pete Seeger
If I Were Free
Travis Edmonson
I'll Be There
The Jackson 5
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream The Kingston Trio
Leaving on a Jet Plane
John Denver
Let it Be
The Beatles
Long River Gordon Lightfoot Man Come Into Egypt Peter, Paul and Mary Magnificent Outpouring Gordon Lightfoot
Mary Hamilton
Joan Baez
Monday Morning Peter, Paul and Mary
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Most Peculiar Man
Simon and Garfunkel
My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Foster Once Upon a Time Charles Strouse
Pack Up Your Sorrows
Richard Farina
Pretty Mary
Traditional
Pretty Polly Oliver - Enchantment (1948) Traditional Pride of Man Hamilton Camp
Puff the Magic Dragon
Peter, Paul and Mary
Reason to Believe
Tim Hardin
Red Rubber Ball The Cyrkle Rocky Road Peter, Paul and Mary
Scarborough Fair
Simon and Garfunkel
Smile Turner, Parsons and Chaplin
Sound of Silence
Simon and Garfunkel
Stewball Peter, Paul and Mary Sweet Haven (from Popeye) Harry Nilsson Sweet Survivor Peter, Paul and Mary Tall Pine Trees Peter Yarrow
Teach Your Children
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Tender Shepherd - Distant Melody Styne-Charlap-Leigh
The Boxer
Simon and Garfunkel
The Cruel War
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Good Times We Had
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Green Leaves of Summer
Dimitri Tiomkin
The Last Thing on My Mind
Tom Paxton
The Star Spangled Banner John Stafford Smith
The Times They are a' Changin'
Bob Dylan
This Land is Your Land
Woody Guthrie
Tom Dooley Traditional
Three Ravens
Peter, Paul and Mary
Universal Soldier
Buffy Saint Marie
Wasn't That a Time Seeger - Hays We are the World Jackson - Richie
Wedding Song
Peter, Paul and Mary
What's the Use of Wonderin' Rogers and Hammerstein
When the Ship Comes In
Bob Dylan
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Pete Seeger
You Light Up My Life Joe Brooks
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