There are lots of easy guitar songs that can be learned in a short time. Horse With No Name by America is possibly THE easiest because you can get away with playing this song using only one chord.
Most songs have at least three chords but that does not make them hard to play. Bald Headed Woman was released in the sixties by firstly, The Kinks and then later The Who with session player Jimmy Page playing on both versions.
theeasyguitarsongs.com is a site designed for people who want to learn songs that are easy to sing and play along with. Here is the list of songs from the site:
Avril Lavigne: Complicated, I Will Be, I’m With You
Boys Like Girls: Two Is Better Than One
Coldplay: Clocks, Viva La Vida
David Cook: Always Be My Baby, Time Of My Life
Daughtry: Home, Life After You, No Surprise, Over You, What About Now
Eric Clapton: Wonderful Tonight
Green Day: When September Ends
Howie Day: Collide
Jason Mraz: I’m Yours, Lucky
Lady Gaga: Bad Romance, Poker Face
Lifehouse: You And Me
Ronan Keating: When You Say Nothing At All
Oasis: Wonderwall
Owl City: Fireflies
Plain White Ts: 1 2 3 4
Taylor Swift: Fifteen, Love Story, Teardrops On My Guitar, You Belong With Me
The Calling: Go Wherever You Will Go
The Script: The Man Who Cant Be Moved
U2: With Or Without You
guitarnoise.com has more lessons on how to play easy guitar songs but with maybe a little more depth than theeasyguitarsongs.com
Okay, you can learn to play a bunch of easy songs if you want to but you can also take a little time to learn the half a dozen chord shapes you need to play hundreds of songs. That’s right – contrary to popular opinion, playing popular songs on the guitar is not rocket surgery.
all-guitar-chords.com can generate the charts for any song you would care to learn. All you need to do is put in some practice time learning to finger them.
[..YouTube..] The Who>The Kinks
[..YouTube..] The Kinks and The Who are equal
[..YouTube..] The Kinks>The Who
[..YouTube..] That is a really kewl! ))) ~~~~
[..YouTube..] Rhythm guitar by Jimmy PageThe Who’s version is more country, this is more ragtime/rock’n'roll
[..YouTube..] Harry Belafonte does a really cool chain gang bluesy sounding version of this song. its hard to find though.
[..YouTube..] Jimmy Page as a session man
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[..YouTube..] but i dont want sugar in my COFEEEEE !
[..YouTube..] I don’t know if the Kinks had as many songs as the Beatles, but I like the KInks better. maybe I”m just crazy that way!!!