Topic: Campfire Songs (Read 12409 times)

The Joker · « **on:** 16 Jul 2009, 19:04 »

The idea of this thread is to share songs that are fairly simple on guitar and vocals, and would be good to play in a casual setting. Do your best to post chords/lyrics/tabs/a video for the song.

For example -

Chords for Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da that are close enough to being right to probably satisfy your non-musical friends.

celticgeek · « **Reply #1 on:** 16 Jul 2009, 21:13 »

Well, you might want to try these:

Polly Wolly Doodle

Red River Valley

Pastures Of Plenty

This Land Is Your Land

Barbara Allen

Big Rock Candy Mountain

I've Been Working On The Railroad

Goodnight, Irene

Do Your Ears Hang Low

Zingoleb · « **Reply #2 on:** 16 Jul 2009, 23:51 »

Pastures of Plenty? God that has so many verses. . .

Also, it's like, the next song on my shuffle

Some things to recommend that I always seem to hear at campfires:

Me and Bobby McGee
Don't Let Me Down
American Pie
Blowin' in the Wind
Yellow Submarine
The Weight

Pretty much most Beatles stuff is well-known and simple.

Other things might be something like, The Who's Pinball Wizard, some Guess Who is fairly simple chords. Hotel California is all basic chording, really. One by Three Dog Night. It's generally simple stuff that everyone knows.

Allman Brother's "Revival" is just A-D-E

scarred · « **Reply #3 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 00:51 »

The Campfire Song Song

imapiratearg · « **Reply #4 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 09:41 »

Smashing your guitar is mandatory, too.

"Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show
Most Bob Dylan songs.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #5 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 10:34 »

i was always partial to "One More Cup of Coffee" because my dad used to sing it all the time; it was an important part of my formative years.

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #6 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 17:30 »

i've always found cheesy singalong shit goes down well as long as the people you're with aren't too self-conscious and, well for want of a better word, twats.

seriously, bust out "hit me baby one more time" round the campfire, and those who are up for a laugh will join in, and those who don't are then officially boring miserable bastards.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #7 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 18:28 »

What if you don't know the lyrics to that song?

I wish people would stop busting out that 'IF YOU DON'T LIKE X YOU DON'T LIKE FUN' bullshit to justify their 'ironic' love for tacky crap. It is seriously annoying.

JD · « **Reply #8 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 21:04 »

The best campfire song

Zingoleb · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 00:27 »

Oh, and my friend Bubba always used to do Jackson Browne's "You Asshole You" at every campfire singalong.

scarred · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 00:40 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 17 Jul 2009, 21:04

The best campfire song

Already posted! By me.

How inconsiderate.

JD · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 00:57 »

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 02:58 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 17 Jul 2009, 18:28

What if you don't know the lyrics to that song?

I wish people would stop busting out that 'IF YOU DON'T LIKE X YOU DON'T LIKE FUN' bullshit to justify their 'ironic' love for tacky crap. It is seriously annoying.

oh, seriously, get fucked. i've gone into this in other threads before - i DO NOT like anything ironically. i like that song. i'm not gonna argue it's some deep and meaningful piece of music, but it's catchy and i enjoy it, along with a shitload of other pop stuff that you obviously think is beneath you.

i didn't say they had to sing along, i just said "join in," i.e. get into the general campfire spirit of things, and NOT sit there and complain that it's "annoying" "tacky crap." you'd clearly be a right miserable cunt to go camping with.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 03:29 »

No. You can't say that people are 'no fun' if they don't know or like a song. I don't think it's beneath me, but how could I join in a song which I not only do not enjoy, but also do not know the lyrics to? Besides which, I am complaining generally about the annoyance of people declaring this, because it's stupid. It's claiming that everyone should have your taste, and that anyone who doesn't is no fun, and it's a particularly annoying and stupid way of doing it.

Also nice of you to keep the tone light, fresh and happy by telling me to fuck off and calling me a cunt. Great going there. I purposefully did not insult you personally, starting to wish I hadn't bothered now.

scarred · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 03:45 »

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 04:00 »

fair enough, i probably overreacted there, and i apologise. it's just that the whole "liking things ironically" thing brings down the red mist for me every time.

the point i was trying to make (and it's one i'd do myself, as many of the songs that have been listed so far in this thread are ones that i barely know), is that if you don't know or don't like a song, you don't have to sit there and sulk about how tacky it is. singing stuff around a campfire isn't a serious artistic display, it's just playing/singing for shits and giggles, generally. as long as people take it that way, it doesn't matter what's being played, you don't necessarily have to sing along, just don't kill the upbeat mood by complaining that you don't like the song or whatever.

as i said, apologies for the shit-fit earlier. i'd also add to the thread-list Rumbleseat's "California Burritos" - listen here for a taste of its awesomeness.

The Joker · « **Reply #16 on:** 22 Jul 2009, 06:43 »

You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones is a good one.

Those are written a little bit wrong, he repeats the first verse right at the beginning for some reason. As far as I know, you do the first verse, then the chorus, then move on to the verse about the demonstration.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #17 on:** 22 Jul 2009, 07:15 »

"Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison.

The Joker · « **Reply #18 on:** 22 Jul 2009, 12:22 »

Seconded, I actually just had a fire last night and ended up playing that.

Wild Horses (also by the Stones) is another good one.

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #19 on:** 22 Jul 2009, 12:35 »

Or you could scare everyone around the campfire with this song: Where DId You Sleep Last Night? - Lead Belly

Lexington, 125 · « **Reply #20 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 06:42 »

Any Felice Brothers songs

The Joker · « **Reply #21 on:** 23 Jul 2009, 09:43 »

About A Girl - Nirvana

I would suggest using C# major instead of minor like the chords say; but maybe that's just me.

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