A selection of songs in 4/4 time to strum along to – we look at a couple of common strum patterns to play these.
Songs in Table 1 only require simple chords in the open position.
Songs in Table 2 may require two trickier chords – F major or B minor.
Table 1 Table 2
| Lesson Number | Song Name | Lesson Number | Song Name | |
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| Lesson 1.01 | I'll Tell me Ma (Key D) | Lesson 2.01 | Galway Girl (Key D) |
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| Lesson 1.02 | In the Rare Ould Times (Key G) | Lesson 2.02 | City of Chicago (Key G/Em) |
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| Lesson 1.03 | Whiskey in the Jar (Key G) | Lesson 2.03 | Ordinary Man (Key Am) |
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| Lesson 1.04 | Nancy Spain (Key G) | Lesson 2.04 | Follow me up to Carlow (Key Em) |
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| Lesson 1.05 | Dirty Old Town (Key G) | Lesson 2.05 | Seán Sabhat from Garryowen chords (Key D) |
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| Lesson 1.06 | The Rising of the Moon (Key A) | Lesson 2.06 | God Save Ireland (Key C) |
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| Lesson 1.07 | The Leaving of Liverpool (Key A) | Lesson 2.07 | Golden Jubilee (Key C) |
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| Lesson 1.08 | The Foggy Dew (Key Am) | Lesson 2.08 | Viva La Quinta Brigada | |
| Lesson 1.09 | Come out ye Black and Tans (Key Am) | Lesson 2.09 | Kelly the Boy from Killane (Key C) |
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| Lesson 1.10 | The Wild Colonial Boy (Key G) | Lesson 2.10 | Town of Ballybay (Key C) |
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| Lesson 1.11 | Past the Point of Rescue (Key Em) | Lesson 2.11 | Ireland's Call (Key D) |
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| Lesson 1.12 | The Lonesome Boatman accompaniment (Key Am) | Lesson 2.12 | The Rare Old Mountain Dew (Key D) |
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| Lesson 1.13 | Some Say the Devil is Dead chords (Key D) | Lesson 2.13 | Schooldays Over (key F - capo on fret 3) |
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| Lesson 1.14 | Sonny (Key G) | Lesson 2.14 | Farewell to Carlingford (Key C) | |
| Lesson 1.15 | Forty Shades of Green (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.16 | The Hills of Connemara (Key D) | |||
| Lesson 1.17 | Down by the Sally Gardens (Key A) | |||
| Lesson 1.18 | Peggy Gordon (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.19 | The Crack was Ninety in the Isle of Man (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.20 | The Ferryman (Key A - capo on 2nd fret)) | |||
| Lesson 1.21 | We're on the One Road (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.22 | A Nation Once Again (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.23 | The Boys of the Old Brigade (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.24 | Sam Hall (Key D) | |||
| Lesson 1.25 | Wagon Wheel (KeyG) | |||
| Lesson 1.26 | The Rambles of Spring (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.27 | All God's Creatures Have a Place in the Choir (key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.28 | The Shores of Botany Bay (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.29 | Star of the County Down (Key Em) | |||
| Lesson 1.30 | Irish Soldier Laddie (Key D) | |||
| Lesson 1.31 | Yarmouth Town (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.32 | Banks of the Roses (Oh My Johnny) (Key G) | |||
| Lesson 1.33 | Seven Drunken Nights (Keg G - note 6/8 time) | |||
| Lesson 1.34 | As I Roved Out (Key Am) | |||