99 songs I know

[lollardfish]

Here's a list of 99 or so songs I know. I have other lists of songs I used to know. And still other lists of songs I used to know but don't really want to know. And still other lists of songs I never knew but would like to. And there's a huge batch of pub songs I've not bothered to list. But here's 99 songs I know.

What did I leave out that I should remember?
What should I learn?

Name	Key	Style	Author
June is a Comin	G	Folk	?
Darkest Hour	G	Folk	Arlo Guthrie
Paint me on Velvet	G (capo up!)	Country	Austin Lounge Lizards
When I was born	G	Pop	Bare Naked Ladies
Save a Horse	E	Country	Big and Rich
Five days in May	Em	Country	Blue Rodeo
Stickshifts and Safetybelts	G	Bluegrass	Cake
Ride On	F#m	Celtic	Christy Moore
Chelsea Hotel	G	Folk	Dan Bern
Jerusalem	G	Folk	Dan Bern
Marilyn	C	Folk	Dan Bern
Sex	Em	Misc	Dan Bern
Hag of Loughgrask	D	Folk	Danny Carnahan
True Thomas	D	Folk	Danny Carnahan
King of California	G	Folk	Dave Alvin
Last Call Waltz	G	Country	David Perry
Forsake	A	Rock	David Perry
Jack Diamond	Am	Folk	David Perry
Jamie Carpenter	D	Folk	David Perry
Long Black Hair	A	Folk	David Perry
Raining in my Dreams	G	Folk	David Perry
Run boy Run	D (drop)	Rock	David Perry
Six Prayers	G	Celtic	David Perry
Tape and Glue	G	Rock	David Perry
$300 Car	G	Country	David Perry
Little Miss Lonesome	G (capo 2)	Country	David Perry
Hallelujah	G (capo 2)	Folk	David Perry
Warning Labels	D	Folk	David Perry
Romeo and Juliet	E	Pop	Dire Straits
Tunnel of Love	Gm	Rock	Dire Straits
Traveling Soldier	G	Country	Dixie Chicks
Cover of rolling Stone	A (capo)	Rock	Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Tessie	G (capo 2)	Folk	Dropkick Murphys
Man of God	Am	Folk	Eliza Gilkyson
Mr. Williams	G	Folk	Five Chinese Brothers
Let's Kill Saturday Night	D	Folk	Five Chinese Brothers
True Lovers	C	Folk	Flathead
Stacy's Mom	A	Pop	Fountains of Wayne
Time to Get a Gun	?	Country	Fred Eaglesmith
Freight Train	Am	Country	Fred Eaglesmith
Lucille	G	Country	Fred Eaglesmith
Some Roads	?	Country	Fred Eaglesmith
49 Tons	?	Rock	Fred Eaglesmith
Process Man	A	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Jakey's Gin	D	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Captain Wedderburn	G	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Mary Mac	Em	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Old Black Rum	G	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Ordinary Day	G	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Paddy Murphy	A	Celtic	Great Big Sea
Side of the Road (dressed to kill)	G (capo up!)	Misc	Jackie Greene
Mexican Girl	Am (capo up 3)	Folk	Jackie Greene
See the Elephant	D	Country	James McMurtry
Carolina in my mind	D	Folk	James Taylor
Fire and Rain	A	Folk	James Taylor
Sweet Baby James	D	Folk	James Taylor
St. Swithan	A (capo)	Celtic	Jimmy George
Stealin'	G	Folk	Ledbetter
Hallelujah	C	Misc	Leonard Cohen
Nobody Knows me	D	Folk	Lyle Lovett
Paper Walls	Em	Rock	Marc Cohn
Evangeline	A	Folk	Mary Gauthier
Fishin in the Dark	D	Country	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Wagon Wheel	G (capo 2)	Country	Old Crow Medicine Show
When I'm up	Am	Rock	Oyster Band
Sally MacClennan	G	Celtic	Pogues
I met you	D	Pop	Proclaimers
Roberta	E	Misc	Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
Mercy	G	Rock	Richard Thompson
Waltzing's for Dreamers	G	Folk	Richard Thompson
Sierra Madre	Em (capo up)	Country	Riders in the Sky
Clare Island	C	Celtic	Saw Doctors
Share the Darkness	G	Celtic	Saw Doctors
Queen of Argyll	Dm (capo)	Celtic	Silly Wizard
Miner's Life	G	Folk	Solas
Little Maggie	G (capo 2)	Bluegrass	Stanley Brothers
Fields have turned brown	G (capo 2)	Bluegrass	Stanley Brothers
Riding on that Midnight Train	G (capo 2)	Bluegrass	Stanley Brothers
Devil's Right Hand	D	Rock	Steve Earle
Copperhead Road	D (capo 2)	Rock	Steve Earle
Door #3	G or whatever	Folk	Steve Goodman
City of New Orleans	C	Folk	Steve Goodman
Stay up late	A	Rock	Talking Heads
Chocolate Jesus	Em	Misc	Tom Waits
Picture in a Frame	G	Misc	Tom Waits
There Were Roses	D	Celtic	Tommy Sands
Fox, The	G	Folk	Traditional
Long Black Veil	G	Folk	Traditional
One Sunday Morning	Em	Celtic	Traditional
Peggy-O	G	Folk	Traditional
Which Side are you On	Em	Rock	Traditional
Little Birdie	G (capo 2)	Bluegrass	Traditional
Darlin' Corey	E	Bluegrass	Traditional
Gorilla You're a Desperado	G	Rock	Warren Zevon
Fisherman's Blues	G	Celtic	Waterboys
Celtic Symphony	Am	Celtic	Wolfetones
Dark as a Dungeon	D	Folk	Woody Guthrie
Jesse James		Folk	Woody Guthrie
Way over Yonder in the Minor Key	D	Folk	Woody Guthrie/Billy Bragg

Comments

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know any Moxy, it's sad to say. Kurt did Moxy so I never learned any. I've tried to learn the Drinking Song several times, but it's never stuck.

I don't remember ever hearing about Shindell.

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Try to get hold of his live album, "Courier." "Transit", "Arrowhead", and "The Kenworth of My Dreams" are among my favourites of his, and it's a good album overall -- I only regret that "Fishing" isn't on there.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Give me the top three songs you think I might learn ... please!

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Transit, Arrowhead, and Fishing (all of them bittersweet) and Kenworth (more upbeat). I have mp3s of all of them, if you can figure out how I can get them to you, or I think I've sent all of them to Kurt on a CD.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Some of them seem to be on youtube!

Thanks. Your music taste has always been impeccable.

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Youtube rawks! :) I should check that out -- I've never actually seen him perform. I wish he was at the Winnipeg Festival.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Ok. Fishing is grim.

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've used it as a poem in class for the imagery/metaphor and the shift in tone. I think it's brilliant. Transit is even more brilliant, and while it makes me cry, it is much more hopeful and redemptive.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Shindell's very interesting -- I ran across him when a friend recommended one od his tunes ("Arcadian Driftwood"), and Solas recorded his song "On the Sea of Fleur De Lis"

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

I think he's comparable to Harry Chapin for excellent story-telling songs.

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

I love his cover of Willin. I'm sort of between songs right now, as I'm figuring out my musical future...

[laurel]

Shindell is one of my favorite songwriters ever; I'll have to think a bit to see if any songs seem like the sort of thing you'd do well. Though really, I think all of his songs are worth a listen just because they're good.

The first song of his that was a fave for me was "Are You Happy Now?" and I think it was a breakthrough for him as Christine Lavin featured it on a compilation she put together and it's been all over the place on comps since then. It's, um, simpler, than most of his songs. He's messed around with how he plays it over the years as it's been heavily requested for eons I'm sure.

"Mary Magdalene" was the other track folks fell for early in his career and I think you'd like it.

www.richardshindell.com has info; there are songs on youtube and in the usual places.

Kevin likes to joke that Shindell's songs are all autobiographical because Shindell does songs set at all sorts of periods during history, often from a first person perspective.

Shindell was/is also 1/3 of Cry Cry Cry with Lucy Kaplansky and Dar Williams, in case you've heard that album and that tweaks your memory. (And if you haven't heard that album, well hey-- it's great!)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I liked Cry, Cry, Cry ... a little dark for the kinds of things I'm learning lately. I'm doing more drive than sink.