Your favorite songs to play while camping sitting around the fire

[Big_Bend]

You're out camping at your favorite park, you have a nice campfire going, and there are a dozen or so fellow campers sitting around enjoying the fire. You break out your acoustic guitar. What do you like to play?

Here are a few of my favorites -

Buy Me a Boat
Country Roads
Feelin' Good Again
Ghost Riders in the Sky
In Heaven There Is No Beer
Never Ending Song of Love
Three Little Birds
You Are My Sunshine

What songs do you like to play around the campfire?

I've got several camping trips planned soon, always fun to break out the acoustic.

 

[richiek65]

I never take a guitar camping (no room in the car usually) and I can't sing to save myself, but your thread reminded me of Eddie Vedder singing a song he has sung around camp-fires for years, and on this particular day he got to meet the fella who wrote the song and got him up to sing it with him. Mark Seymour takes the second verse and blows Mr V away

 

[elihu]

Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy-fun yet challenging to sing.

Elvis Costello What's So Funny and Veronica...

All the Jim Croce and James Taylor songs you can remember.

Avett Bros Murder in the City

Walk Away Rene Left Banke

Chuck Berry Let it Rock and Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Stones Happy, Love in Vain, Dead Flowers...

Beatles You Can't Do That

Creedence Green River, Who'll Stop the Rain

Steve Earl Someday, Guitar Town, Gallway Girl

Carter Family You Are My Flower, Dixie Darlin’

Hey Big Bend- remember Too Old to Die Young?

 

[Kingpin]

I've played an annual campfire-type party for the past 20 years with some long-time musician friends. These are the tunes we've been going over for this years event:

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
Homeward Bound
Comes a Time
I've Got a Name
Funny How Time Slips Away
Danny's Song
Willin'
Two of Us
59th Bridge Street Song
Nature's Way
Garden Party
Long May You Run

 

[Frisco 57]

Dylan/Byrds You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, and then some John Prine songs.

 

[Silent Otto]

Long Black Veil
Evangeline

 

[RodeoTex]

Of the songs I can play start to end AND know all the words:

Let It Be - Beatles
Powder River Home - Chris Ledoux
Old Silver - Radney Foster
River Road - Jimmy LaFave
She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes

I really appreciate when others join in with the singing since I'm not strong singer. Even better when there's another guitar player because I'm not great at that either.

 

[HolmfirthNJ]

Sweet Jane

 

[gitold]

Camping!!! Noooooooooooo!!

 

[schmee]

These days, Jackson Browne

 

[Stringbanger]

Magnolia - J.J. Cale
Human Highway - Neil Young
Little Wing - Neil Young
Wild Night - Van Morrison
All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere - Bob Dylan
July, You’re A Woman - John Stewart
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Moondance - Van Morrison
Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
Friend Of The Devil - Grateful Dead
I Need You - Beatles
Having A Party - Sam Cooke
Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Old Tennessee - Dan Fogelberg
Keith Whitley - Don’t Close Your Eyes
Your Lyin’ Blue Eyes - John Anderson
That’s The Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard
Louisiana Saturday Night - Mel McDaniel

 

[chris m.]

There aren't that many songs where I know all the words by heart. Typically they are songs that I sung at one point in a band in my life, or they are songs that I learned as a kid. So that whittles my stand-bys down to:

I Shot The Sheriff
Goin' Down That Road Feelin' Bad
City of New Orleans
Bobby McGee
Sympathy for the Devil
Jumpin' Jack Flash
I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do (Nobody in the World Can Get Along With You)
Three Little Birds
Your Cheating Heart
Box of Rain
Bad Moon Rising
Stormy Weather
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain

Songs like She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain and Going Down That Road Feelin' Bad are great for campfire sing-alongs because I sing a lyric line once, and then everyone else gets to repeat it two more times.

 

[northernguitar]

Three Little Birds
Redemption Song
Yer So Bad
Listen To Her Heart
Gallows Pole
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Ziggy Stardust
Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon
Hotel Yorba
Needle And The Damage Done
Caravan

 

[Refugee]

Usually Dylan tunes
When I Paint My Masterpiece
She Belongs to Me
Simple Twist of Fate

Stuck Inside of Mobile and Desolation Row are almost impossible to get all verses in the correct order.

 

[srvy]

Anything Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
I'd probably start with these.

 

[sloppychops]

Ultimate campfire song has to be "Outdoor Type."

 

[RobRiggs]

Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire

Tennessee Whiskey (the Stapleton version)

Country Roads by John Denver

Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash

 

[Harry Styron]

For Boomer gatherings, I recently tried these two and had great singalong particpation:

Daydream Believer
Our Day Will Come

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

Nothing special to note for me other than the I Hope My Guitar Doesn't Destroy Itself Because I Moved Away From the Fire Too Quickly Blues. I learned that one the hard way after a beach bonfire a few years ago.

 

[Jef]

My campfire days are long gone. Once upon a time there were a few songs which could garantee that you wouldn't be shivering alone in your sleeping bag for the rest of the night.
- I hope that I don't fall in love with you - Tom Waits
- Wicked Game - Chris Isaac

However, last year I found myself by a campfire and was passed an acoustic guitar. I played 'Jimmy' by Moriarty, just a little funny song.