Grab your canjo and get picking, with this treasure trove of over 115 beloved, well-known songs! Playing these songs is easier than you ever believed, just follow the numbers above the words in the easy-to-play canjo tablature format. This 60-page song book was designed and printed at C. B. Gitty, with all tablature arranged by Ben "Gitty" Baker. We even include a page on how to read the tablature and play your canjo, and links to more canjo-related resources online!
Here is a sample of the tablature style:
(Each number above the word corresponds to which fret you should finger on the canjo's fretboard. A zero (0) means plug the string open/unfretted.) Please note that this book replaces our two previous 60-page canjo songbooks (Volume 1 and 2), with some extra bonus songs added as well.
Here is the list of songs included in this song book:
- All Through the Night
- Amazing Grace
- America the Beautiful
- Anchors Aweigh
- Are You Sleeping (Frere Jacques)
- Arkansas Traveler
- Auld Lang Syne
- Ave Maria
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Bill Bailey (Won't You Come Home)
- The Bog Down In the Valley-O
- Buffalo Gals
- Camptown Races
- Children Go Where I Send Thee
- Crawdad Hole
- Cripple Creek
- Down By the Riverside
- Down in the River to Pray
- Down in the Valley
- The Farmer In the Dell
- Goodnight Ladies
- Gospel Train (Get On Board)
- Grandfather’s Clock
- Happy Birthday
- Hard Times (Come Again No More)
- Haul Away Joe
- Home on the Range
- Hot Cross Buns
- Hush Little Baby
- I’ll Tell Me Ma
- In the Pines
- In the Sweet By And By
- I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
- John Henry
- (For He's A) Jolly Good Fellow
- Keep On the Sunny Side
- Kum-ba-ya
- Little Brown Jug
- Little David Play On Your Harp
- Loch Lomond
- London Bridge (Is Falling Down)
- Lullaby (Cradle Song)
- Marines’ Hymn (Halls of Montezuma)
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Michael Row the Boat Ashore
- Midnight Special
- Molly Malone
- The Moonshiner
- My Country ‘Tis of Thee
- Nearer, My God to Thee
- Nine Pound Hammer
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Ode to Joy (Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee)
- Oh My Darlin’ Clementine
- Oh! Susanna
- The Old Gray Mare (She Ain't What She Used To Be)
- Old Joe Clark
- Old MacDonald Had A Farm
- Over There
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Precious Memories
- Red River Valley
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- Rock-a-bye Baby
- The Rock Island Line
- Rock Of Ages
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Sailing, Sailing
- Scotland the Brave
- Shady Grove
- She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain
- Shenandoah
- Simple Gifts
- Skip To My Lou
- Streets of Laredo
- Swanee River
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Take Me Out To The Ball Game
- (Give Me) That Old Time Religion
- Theme from the Blue Danube Waltz
- This Land is Your Land
- This Old Man
- This Train (is Bound for Glory)
- Tom Dooley
- Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (Down Around Killarney)
- Turkey In the Straw
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- The Unclouded Day
- The U. S. Field Artillery March (Caissons Go Rolling Along)
- Waltzing Matilda
- The Water Is Wide
- Wayfaring Stranger
- What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor
- When Irish Eyes are Smiling
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Whiskey In the Jar
- Whispering Hope
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- The Wild Rover
- Wildwood Flower
- Wreck of the Old ‘97
- Yankee Doodle
- You're A Grand Old Flag