Campfire/sing along songs

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I know summer is still some time away, but I was wondering what songs any of you like to play when you pull out your acoustic for summer get togethers. I'm thinking along the lines of songs people like to sing along with.
 
John Cougar or John Melencamp or John...... or whatever he calls himself seems to pop up alot at campout jams. Jack and Diane and Pink houses are pretty easy to play and singalog.
 
american pie
i wanna hold your hand
brown eyed girl

i don't know how to play these...but it seems people would like singing them.
 
I guess I should have said I'm not looking for the traditional type songs like Home on the range and stuff like that. Yeah, John Mellancamp would probably have a few.
 
Mr. C said:
I guess I should have said I'm not looking for the traditional type songs like Home on the range and stuff like that. Yeah, John Mellancamp would probably have a few.
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Oh, now you say that..... :D

Pop songs will depend on who is there.
 
Crosby, Stills and Nash songs like "Teach Your Children" and Eagles tunes (lots of them) seem to pop up around the campfire whenever my friends pop the top on a few and get out the acoustics. Old country songs and ballads get played pretty often too. And the night isn't complete untill someone breaks into James Taylor's "Fire And Rain."
 
Here's a little campfire ditty.

I used to love her....








but I had to kill her






Boy, how the kids love that one!
 
Buy a copy of "Rise up Singing". Grab some S'mores and you'll be all set!
 
I work for an outfit out here called Covered Wagon Tours and do this stuff all the time and suppose the most important thing is quickly reading the group you're playing to and adjust. It’s best to play the most common songs your group knows and to use devices like call and response / echo, and word substitution, to create something fresh they’ll remember. ‘Fire and Rain’ for instance you’d use ‘I’ve seen marshmellows’, etc., or if it’s rowdy adults, ‘I’ve seen penis and I’ve seen tits.’ And that’ll lead you down the path with their help to a whole new chorus that they help create and will sing the rest of the night.

Know when to quit.
 
Its just not a campfire without the following.

Kumbaya and...

Skeeter on your Peter.

There's a Skeeter on your peter, brush it off
There's a Skeeter on your peter, brush it off

Theres a dozen on your cousin you can shurely hear them Buzz'n

There's a Skeeter on your peter, brush it off

thats all I can remember. :rolleyes: I cant remember the chords, i think its Cmaj to Gmajor to F.
 
TheRockDoc said:
Here's a little campfire ditty.

I used to love her....

but I had to kill her


Boy, how the kids love that one!
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Warren Zevon's 'Excitable Boy' :D
 
No! no! No! You missed the whole joke!!! It's:

There's a skeeter on my peter. Whack it off! [repeat]
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Geez.

Anyway, to the OP: I have a few dozen word files with lyrics and chords, that I have meticulously tweaked over the years for just this purpose. Almost everything is fit to 1 page so it works great for campfire jams. I'd gladly zip em up and email them to you if you'd like. Just pm me your email address. A lot of classic rock. But the good kind - no BTO or Foghat, for instance. It's at home, and right now I can't remember what might be in there. Stones, beatles, Tom petty, probably, etc., and a few newer things.
 
Hey!

Don't be dissin' my BTO & Foghat!

Especially Welcome Home and Trouble,Trouble respectively.

Don't make me pull this car over, young man!
 
It's Hard to Be Humble is a great campfire song. Girls laugh like crazy which, of course, is the main indicator of a song's success. But you have to have a country voice to do it right.
 
Brown eyed girl is my favorite for campfires.

My little runaway is a good one too.

CCR has some good stuff along those lines too.


Mike
 
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