The Big Cigar Box Guitar Songbook: 100+ Songs for 3 string CBG in G

Thomas Balinger

The Big Cigar Box Guitar Songbook
100+ Songs for 3 string CBG in G

Sometimes called „the poor man’s guitar“, the cigar box guitar’s popularity has steadily grown since its invention in the 18th century.
With 100+ famous songs this is the ultimate collection for any CBG aficionado. All songs arranged for easy Cigar Box Guitar in G (G-D-G) and featuring chord symbols, chord diagrams and CBG melody tab to make playing as easy as possible. Beginners will like the extra sections on tuning your CBG, the basics chords and simple strumming and picking patterns for song accompaniment.
And for those interested in playing the Blues, there’s an introduction to bottleneck playing and basic Blues techniques like bending, hammer on and pull off.
The concluding section of the book explains everything you need to know about reading music.
A must-have for every CBG player!

Songs:

1. A beautiful life
2. Acres of clams
3. All the good times are past and gone
4. Amazing grace
5. America the beautiful
6. Angel Band
7. Auld lang syne
8. Aura Lee
9. Away in a manger
10. Banks of Allan Water
11. Banks of Sacramento
12. Banks of the Ohio
13. Beautiful brown eyes
14. Beautiful dreamer
15. Billy Boy
16. Billy the kid
17. Bound for the Rio Grande
18. Buffalo Gals
19. Bury me beneath the willow
20. Camptown races
21. Careless love
22. Carry me back to old Virginny
23. Cindy
24. Clementine
25. Colorado trail
26. Cotton-eyed Joe
27. Cumberland Gap
28. Danny Boy
29. Darling Corey
30. Don’t this road look rough and rocky
31. Down by the riverside
32. Down in the valley
33. Engine 143
34. Erie Canal
35. Foggy mountain top
36. Footprints in the snow
37. Git along little dogies
38. Give me that old time religion
39. God rest ye merry, gentlemen
40. Good night, Ladies
41. Go, tell it on the mountain
42. Greensleeves
43. Hard times come again no more
44. He’s got the whole world in His hands
45. Home on the range
46. Home! Sweet Home!
47. House of the Rising Sun
48. It’s a long way to Tipperary
49. Jesse James
50. Jingle Bells
51. John Brown‘s body
52. John Hardy
53. Jolly good fellow
54. Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
55. Kum ba yah
56. Little Bessie
57. Little brown jug
58. Long journey home
59. Make me down a pallet
60. Mama don’t ’low
61. Michael, row the boat ashore
62. Morning has broken
63. My Bonnie lies over the ocean
64. My home’s across the smoky mountains
65. Nine pound hammer
66. Nobody knows the trouble
67. Oh! Susanna
68. Old black Joe
69. Old folks at home
70. Old Mac Donald had a farm
71. On top of Old Smokey
72. Over the river and through the woods
73. Poor Paddy works on the railway
74. Red river valley
75. Reilly’s daughter
76. Rock my soul
77. Roll in my sweet baby’s arms
78. Sailor on the deep blue sea
79. Scarborough Fair
80. Shady Grove
81. She moved through the fair
82. Shenandoah
83. Shortnin’ bread
84. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
85. Sweet by and by
86. Swing low, sweet chariot
87. The ballad of John Henry
88. The John B. sails
89. The last rose of summer
90. The star spangled banner
91. The Wabash Cannon Ball
92. The wild rover
93. The yellow rose of Texas
94. Tom Dooley
95. Waltzing Matilda
96. Way down the old plank road
97. Wayfaring stranger
98. What shall we do with the drunken sailor
99. When the saints go marchin’ in
100. Whiskey in the jar
101. Whiskey Johnny
102. Will the circle be unbroken
103. Yankee Doodle