The Ultimate Naked Campfire Song List!

[SandShell]

I very often find myself sitting around the campfire with my guitar at events.

What are your favorite songs to play/hear/sing along with when you are sitting around with a group of people and an instrument?

Here are some of my local crowd favorites, please share yours!!

Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
What I Got - Sublime
Amber - 311
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
Country Roads - John Denver
Carolina in my Mind - James Taylor
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
I'm Yours - James Mraz
Wagon Wheel -CCR
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/ What A Wonderful World - IZ
Big Yellow Taxi - Joanie Mitchell
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Joanie Mitchell
Bubbly - Colbie Callet
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Wonderwall - Oasis
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
I'll Stand By You - Pretenders
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Love Story - Taylor Swift
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye
Your Love is my Drung - Ke$ha (People REALLY get a kick out of that one!)
Hotel California - Eagles
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
One Day - Matisyahu
Yellow - Coldplay
Halleluah - Lenard Cohen
American Pie - Don McLean
The John B Sails - Lee Hayes
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da - Beatles
Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles
Homeward Bound- Simon and Garfunkel
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

[kavikanudist]

Wow, your set list is awesome! I would love to play guitar with you sometime. We play a lot of the same music!

[SandShell]

Thanks :) I have more, but those are the better known and more fun to sing along.

What are your favorites to play sing-a-long style??

[readonly]

What a wonderful list, I just was inspired to listen to some highlights, but it's difficult to point out only a few titles... Reminds me of times gone by. Thanks for sharing! May be I can suggest some of them on my fkk vacation the end of next week.

[kavikanudist]

Funny, I can always think of songs when I play and right now I go blank! LOL… What about;

Cat Stevens- Wild World
Jim Croce- Leroy Brown
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Elton John- Your Song
Bob Seger- Turn the Page
The Kinks- Lola
John Lennon- Imagine
REM- Loosing My Religion
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Stone Temple Pilots- Creep
Rolling Stones- Mother's Little Helper
Simon and Garfunkel- Mrs. Robinson
Led Zeppelin- Hey, Hey What Can I Do?

[boris]

rem - nightswimming
oasis - son't look back in anger
springsteen - dancing in the dark

[readonly]

Cat Stevens - Morning has broken
Frank & Nancy Sinatra - Something stupid
George Harrison - Here comes the sun
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
 
 
 

[SandShell]

I am not sure how I forgot Mrs. Robinson, that is on my list!! I just added Lola to my list book o' chords, good one. Here Comes the Sun I have, but I am always too embarrassed to play because it has such a distinct guitar part that I can't really play. Wild World is a good one, I should add that. The rest are good too!

[Historybuff83]

I have been nude around a campfire and literally listened to none of the songs on this list, or any music for that matter

[nudetrail]

great list of songs 

[SandShell]

Back to topic though, when I think of campfire music, songs where people can join in hardly come to my mind. Well, Row, row, row your boat does, but that is because it appeared in a Star Trek movie. What comes to my mind are songs in which I imagine a narrator sitting out there and telling a tale, for instance (pardon my metalheadedness):

I understand what you are talking about, too, but I am thinking more of communal singing songs. Communal singing has really left our society and it is such a wonderful experience for bonding and sharing. Music creates such incredible connections and making music together is one of my very favorite things to do!

[readonly]

 

[Dario Western]

Surprised that nobody has mentioned this song yet!  ;-)

[AElf]

The Doors -- Summer's Almost Gone

[Bobbert]

For a campfire:
- Friend of the Devil - Greatful Dead
- Paradise - John Prine
- Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
- Heart of Gold - Neil Young