This list is here at the suggestion of Tom Bianchi. It's an abridged list of some of the songs I've learned and/or played out in my life.

Here goes...

AC DC
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
You Shook Me All Night Long
TNT
Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

The Band
King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Up on Cripple Creek
The Weight
Long Black Veil

The Beatles
Come Together
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Rocky Racoon
I am the Walrus
I'm Only Sleeping
In My Life
It's Only Love
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Things We Said Today
Ticket to Ride
Yellow Submarine (I mean, probably)
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Two of Us (on mando, what's that one verse?)

Black Uhuru
Solidarity

John Brady
What's So Great About Love?

John R. Butler
The Hand of the Almighty

Jonathan Byrd
The Cocaine Kid
Cold and Hungry Night
Ballad of Larry
My Generation
Learn to Rock and Roll
I Want You
and can back him up on a ton of the other ones

Glen Campbell
Rhinestone Cowboy

Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
Tennessee Flat-top Box
I Still Miss Someone
I Walk the Line (more or less)
Big River
Ring of Fire (usually with "American Girl" by Tom Petty)
Long Black Veil

Cheap Trick
Surrender

Patsy Cline
I Fall to Pieces
Crazy

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Who'll Stop the Rain?
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Lodi

Bobby Darin
Splish Splash
(has the lyric "Bing bang, I saw the whole gang")

Neil Diamond
Solitary Man
Sweet Caroline

Ani DiFranco
Both Hands
As Is

Dion and the Belmonts
Teenager in Love

Fats Domino
Blueberry Hill

Bob Dylan
Blowin' in the Wind
Girl from the North Country
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Maggie's Farm
Mr. Tambourine Man
She Belongs to Me
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Like a Rolling Stone
From a Buick 6
It's Take a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Highway 61 Revisited
All Along the Watchtower
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
This Wheel's on Fire (sorta)
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Forever Young
Tough Mama
Never Say Goodbye
Tangled Up in Blue
Simple Twist of Fate
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome
Meet Me in the Morning
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Hurricane
Isis
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
Jokerman
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Caroll
Things Have Changed (sort of)
Tryin' to Get to Heaven
Knocking on Heaven's Door
probably a couple I'm forgetting...I lost track of some great ones like "A Hard Rain..." "It's Alright Ma..."The Ballad of Hollis Brown" and others. Hard to remember 'em all.

Steve Earle
The Devil's Right Hand
Guitar Town
Gettin' Tough (Good Ol' Boys)
Hillbilly Highway
My Old Friend the Blues
Someday
Fearless Heart
Nowhere Road
The Rain Came Down
I Ain't Ever Satisfied (I think)
Copperhead Road (not on the mando, though)
The Other Kind
Promise You Anything
Regular Guy (on the mando)
Angel is the Devil
Goodbye
Sometimes She Forgets
I Feel Alright (mostly)
Hardcore Troubadour
Christmas in Washington
Used t' know a few others

Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
Here Comes the Rain Again (I did it once at a party anyway)

The Everly Brothers
Wake Up, Little Susie
Cathy's Clown
Devoted to You

Tom Fenton
Running Down St. Charles

Blaze Foley
Clay Pigeons

The Foundations
Build Me Up Buttercup

Lefty Frizell
That's the Way Love Goes
Long Black Veil

Steve Goodman
City of New Orleans

Grateful Dead
Ripple (into Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds")
Friend of the Devil (in G, right?)
Dire Wolf
Box of Rain
I Know You Rider

Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
New York Blues

Merle Haggard
That's the Way Love Goes
Mama Tried
I am a Lonesome Fugative
Sing Me Back Home
Today I Started Loving You (Again)
My Own Kind of Hat (I think)
Working Man's Blues (sort of)
Someday When Things are Good
I Can't Hold Myself in Line

Tom T. Hall
I Like Beer

John Hiatt
Memphis in the Meantime
Lipstick Sunset

Buddy Holly
Rave On
Peggy Sue
Oh Boy
Not Fade Away

Waylon Jennings
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
Theme from "The Dukes of Hazzard"
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
I've Always Been Crazy
Wurlitzer Prize (I don't want to get over you) (I think)
Honky Tonk Heroes (Billy Joe Shaver)

Billy Joel
You May Be Right

Freedy Johnston
Bad Reputation

The Kinks
All Day and All of the Night
So Tired

Kris Kristofferson
Me and Bobby McGee
Here Comes That Rainbow

Cyndi Lauper
Time After Time
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (with apologies to Robert Hazard)

John Lennon
(Just Like) Starting Over
Imagine

Gordon Lightfoot
Sundown

Little Richard
I Hear You Knockin'

Lowest of the Low
Bleed a Little While

Lyle Lovett
God Will
If I Had a Boat
If I Were the Man You Wanted
She's No Lady, She's My Wife
Texas River Song
(heard Townes' version first but learned it from Lyle's version)

Madonna
Material Girl (on the mando)

Ziggy Marley
Tomorrow People

Roger Miller
King of the Road

Trevor Mills
The Kid with the Comic Book

Anais Mitchell
Orion
Shenandoah

Rick(y) Nelson
Garden Party
It's Late (most of it anyway)

Fred Neil
Everybody's Talkin'

Willie Nelson
Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
Blue Skies (Iving Berlin)
I'd Have to Be Crazy (Fromholz)
On the Road Again
Forgiving You Was Easy
Still is Still Moving to Me
Shotgun Willie
Whiskey River
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Sad Songs and Waltzes
It's Not Supposed to be That Way
Me and Paul
Crazy
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Bill Passalacqua
Jackrabbit (essential blues version by request)
Beautiful
I Binda

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
American Girl
The Waiting
Don't Come Around Here No More
Yer So Bad
A Face in the Crowd
You Don't Know How It Feels
Mary Jane's Last Dance

The Pine Dogs
Everybody Looks So Down
Whiskey Voice
As Far As You Can Go
Ton of Bricks
Torn Again
Good Luck, Money and Gasoline

Pink Floyd
I Wish You Were Here (by osmosis)
Comfortably Numb (more osmosis)
Time (actually had to sit with this one)
Used to play "Pigs (Three Different Ones)"
HA HA Sharod you are.

Elvis Presley
Jailhouse Rock
Don't Be Cruel
That's Alright Mama
I Can't Help Falling in Love with You
All Shook Up

Handsome John Prine
Illegal Smile
Angel from Montgomery
Souvenirs
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
Paradise

REM
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)

Jimmy Reed
East Bound and Down

Jimmy Reed
Baby What You Want Me To Do

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Tracks of My Tears

Rolling Stones
Dead Flowers
Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want (sort of)

Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
Lucielle (sort of)
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (I think)

Scott Carpenter and the Real McCoys
Sign Post
2am Tragedy
Reach Up
Been Drinkin' (I think I remember the words)

Sick
Teeth

Paul Simon
Late in the Evening
Boy in the Bubble (I think)
Me and Julio (faking my way through it)

Todd Snider
Statistician's Blues
Easy Money
I Can't Complain
Beer Run
Double Wide Blues
I need to learn other ones like "Waco Moon" or "Lonely Girl."

Son Volt
Windfall

Bruce Springsteen
My Hometown

Squeeze
Tempted
Pulling Mussels (from a shell)

Ringo Starr
Photogragh

Tom Stahl
Clair's Wedding
I Wanna Be Ignorant

Tragically Hip
Grace, Too
Wheat Kings (it's been a while)
could probably fake my way through "Courage"

Traveling Wilburies
Handle With Care

Jerry Jeff Walker
Mr. Bojangles

Fats Waller
Ain't Misbehavin'

Don Williams
If Hollywood Don't Need You

Hank Williams
Hey, Good Lookin'
Why Don't You Love Me
Honky Tonk Blues
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love with You
Your Cheatin' Heart
Lovesick Blues

Wizard of OZ
Over the Rainbow
If I Only Had a Brain

Neil Young
Sugar Mountain (it's been a decade)
Old Man
Heart of Gold
The Needle and the Damage Done
Harvest
Powderfinger
Hey Hey My My
Like a Hurricane
Rockin' in the Free World

Townes Van Zandt
Pancho and Lefty
Loretta
If I Needed You
Tecumseh Valley

Other ones I know...
Wabash Cannonball
Mountain Dew
Rocky Top
I've been Working on the Railroad
You Are My Sunshine
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Trouble in Mind
We'll Meet Again
Singin' the Blues
Georgia

Some of the ones I wrote myself...
R'n'R
Novocain
Hard Kisser
Fall in Love
Chat It Up
Fear
You Know Me Better
Spending the Night
The Saddest Way
Good About Anything
Driver
The Day We Buried Her
A Song for Me
Trust
Another Town
When in Rome
One Foot in the Grave
Too Far Gone
Eeny Meeny Miny Moe
Missing the Point
Sweet Precious Time
Bean Bag Chair
World of Love
How's It Goin'
Pretty
MacGruder's Daughter (the Life is Good)
I'm Proud
Ghost-Like Radio
A Brother's Code
Bad 'B' Western
Only Blue
New Clothes
Diesel Taxi Boogie
Let It Play
Sleeping Peacefully
There is a Wind
Ain't No Greenthumb's Blues
Crestfallen Baby
Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No
Crutch (would take some thinking)
Who's Gonna Be Your Savior Now?
I'm an Ideologist
We Take It For Granted
Get My Fill
I Wish I Was Dead
Add a Little Love
Mighty
Go Away
Given Enough Time
Greg Klyma's Rain Song
She's from Venus
New Orleans, February 2006
Roll Me Away
Someone Else's Sorrow
The Truth
No Winning Hand
Once in a While
Felix and Dolores
I Will Catch You
Little Bit Lonely
She Don't Have to do Nothin'
Never Had Me an Older Brother
New Way to Smile
Their Eyes We Watching God
Elaine's Wedding
Still No Silver Linin'
Let It Be Done
A Tribute to "Empty Bottles"
Greg Klyma's Epitaph, Part 1
Lucky, Like That
Stephanie
Tryin' Real Hard (Better Me)
Look Whose Become a Woman
Something's Gotta Give
She Looked So Much Like Him
Nuthin' Like a Death
'Cause I'm a Chicken
Four Episodes in the Life of an Adorable, Yet Mischeveous Child
Everyone is Irish
Catherine Finnegan
Say It Again
Nicotine
Somebody I Never Knew
I Got Me a Song
Everyone Forgets
Love is Such a Beautiful Thing
Helen Rose
Ex-Girlfriends Cost Less Money than Ex-Wives

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