Author: Thomas Balinger

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Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 199

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Thomas Balinger The Big Cigar Box Guitar Songbook 100+ Songs for 3 string CGB 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