Folk Guitar Songs

Browse folk guitar songs with chord diagrams, tabs, and playing guides for guitar, ukulele, and piano.

Folk Guitar Songs – Chord Charts & Tabs

Explore our collection of 299 folk songs with complete chord charts, tabs, and diagrams for guitar, ukulele, piano, and more. Each song includes chord diagrams, strum patterns, and playing tips to help you learn quickly.

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Here Comes the Sun

The Beatles
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
George Harrison’s masterpiece from Abbey Road. Use a capo on the 7th fret to match the original recording.
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Stick Season

Noah Kahan
Advanced
Add fingerpicking arpeggios for texture
Noah Kahan’s breakout hit uses four chords with a driving folk-pop feel. The fingerpicking pattern in the intro gives way…
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Something in the Orange

Zach Bryan
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Zach Bryan’s haunting ballad uses four open chords with emotional fingerpicking that builds throughout the song.
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This Land Is Your Land

Woody Guthrie
Beginner
Simple downstroke strumming works great
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Cotton-Eyed Joe

Traditional
Beginner
Simple downstroke strumming works great
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Polly Wolly Doodle

Traditional
Beginner
Simple downstroke strumming works great
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Kumbaya

Traditional
Beginner
Simple downstroke strumming works great
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Leaving on a Jet Plane

John Denver
Beginner
Simple downstroke strumming works great
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House of the Rising Sun

The Animals
Advanced
Add fingerpicking arpeggios for texture
One of the most famous arpeggiated songs in rock history. A perfect introduction to fingerpicking and arpeggios.
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Cripple Creek

Traditional
Beginner
Simple downstroke strumming works great
The first song every banjo player learns. A driving bluegrass standard with three chords and a memorable melody.