The Campfire Songbook is a wonderful collection of everyone’s favourite campfire songs! Whether you’re young or old, there is something for you in this unique collection of songs. All the songs in the Campfire Songbook have been collected by Mike Jackson and Alan Craig over many years, and every song is a proven favourite. The Songbook is convenient B5 size with wire-spiral binding songbook and includes lyrics, melody and easy-to-play chords for guitar and ukulele
So, if you’re sitting by the campfire at night, or leaning against the old piano, or just sitting with friends around the barbeque, you’ll find dozens of lusty sing-along songs in our Campfire Songbook to keep you and your friends entertained for hours!
New Revised Edition
The Campfire Songbook comes with a data CD that contains a simple backing of each tune in both MIDI and AAC (advanced MP3*) formats. MIDI files can be played on your computer or laptop using any MIDI player (most computers come with one installed, but there are good low-cost and free ones available on the Internet). This format allows you to vary the tempo, change the key, or even alter the instruments.
The AAC files can be installed in your iTunes or Windows Media Player centre and downloaded to your iPod or other MP3-style players. We are currently working on a Campfire Songbook ‘app’ for the iPod, iPhone or iPad: so you’ll be able to take your songs with you everywhere you go!
The Campfire Songbook is ideal for schools, campers, hikers, youth and church groups as well as family sing-alongs. In this convenient B5 size spiral bound book you will find 100 tunes from around the world – folk songs, blues ballads, country songs, jazz songs, fun songs, spirituals and kids’ songs – all with music and arranged with easy-to-play guitar chords!
Here are the songs you’ll find in the Campfire Songbook:
- 1. A-Roving
- 2. After the Ball
- 3. Along the Road to Gundagai
- 4. Alouette5. Amazing Grace
- 6. Ancient Britons
- 7. Apples and Bananas
- 8. Ash Grove
- 9. Auld Land Syne
- 10. (An) Austrian Went Yodelling
- 11. Be Kind to Your
Web-Footed Friends - 12. Bill Bailey
- 13. Billy of Tea
- 14. Blow the Man Down
- 15. Botany Bay
- 16. Bound for South Australia
- 17. Bring Back My Neighbours to Me
- 18. Camptown Races
- 19. Clementine
- 20. Click Go the Shears
- 21. Cockles and Mussels
- 22. Daisy Bell
- 23. Danny Boy
- 24. Dixie
- 25. Do Your Ears Hang Low?
- 26. Down by the Riverside
- 27. Drunken Sailor
- 28. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
- 29. Ging Gang Goolie
- 30. Give Me a Home … Gum Trees
- 31. Go Tell It on the Mountain
- 32. Greensleeves
- 33. Guantanamera
- 34. Happy Wanderer
- 35. Hava Nagila
- 36. He’s Got the Whole World …
- 37. Home on the Range
- 38. House of the Rising Sun
- 39. I Was Only, Only Fooling
- 40. In an English Country Garden
- 41. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
- 42. Jamaica Farewell
- 43. Joshua Fought the
Battle of Jericho - 44. Kumbaya
- 45. Leaving of Liverpool
- 46. Little Brown Jug
- 47. Little English Sparrow
- 48. Loch Lomond
- 49. Lord of the Dance
- 50. Maggie
- 51. Mairi’s Wedding
- 52. Maori Farewell
- 53. Mary Ann
- 54. Michael Finnigan
- 55. Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
- 56. Morning Has Broken
- 57. My Girl’s a Corker
- 58. Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?
- 59. Oh, Susanna
- 60. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- 61. On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘At
- 62. On Top of Old Smokey/Spaghetti
- 63. One Man Went to Mow
- 64. One More River
- 65. Pokarekare Ana
- 66. Quartermaster’s Store
- 67. Rattling Bog
- 68. Rock My Soul
- 69. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- 70. Scarborough Fair
- 71. Shalom Chaverim
- 72. She’ll Be Coming Round …
- 73. Shenandoah
- 74. Show Me the Way to Go Home
- 75. Skip to My Lou’
- 76. Skye Boat Song
- 77. Streets of Laredo
- 78. Swanee River
- 79. Sweet Violets
- 80. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- 81. Tell Me Ma’
- 82. Ten Green Bottles
- 83. There Is a Tavern in the Town
- 84. There’s a Hole in My Bucket
- 85. This Old Man
- 86. This Train Is Bound for Glory
- 87. Three Craws
- 88. Tie Me Kangaroo Down
- 89. Tom Dooley
- 90. Waltzing Matilda
- 91. We Shall Not Be Moved
- 92. When Johnny Comes Marching
- 93. When the Saints Go Marching In
- 94. Whistling Gypsy
- 95. Wild Mountain Thyme
- 96. Wild Rover
- 97. Worried Man Blues
- 98. Yankee Doodle
- 99. Yellow Rose of Texas
- 100. You Are My Sunshine
Listen to Some Samples
* AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding, and is the successor to the MP3 format – it comes with a .m4a extension. This audio format is generally of a higher quality than the MP3 standard, and has smaller file sizes. The following are some of the devices that support AAC: All Apple products (iPod, iPad, iPhone, Mac computers), DivX Plus Web Player, Sony PlayStation 3/Portable, Sony Walkman, Sony Ericsson phones, Nokia S40 & S60, Android phones, Nintendo Wii and the MPEG-4 video standard.
Bluegum Music partners: Rantan Bush Band and Mike Jackson · Editing by Karl Craig