Customer Reviews

The Folksong Fake Book: (Fake Books)

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I have really enjoyed this book.

First off, there are more songs than you can imagine! It's great to search by name or location of origination, etc. Most are done with simple chords so if you have a limited knowledge of fancy chords there will be lots of songs for you to enjoy playing.

I love the binder which allows for the book to lay flat without the pages flipping around.

Happy playin'!

I'm only 2 months into learning to play guitar. This book has allowed me to play songs that I know. This has really helped me feel like I will get there at some point.

Just an excellent collection. If I can play piano to these tunes...so can you!

I'm now 85 and first played a very amateurish guitar many yers ago (when i was 14)my girlfriend at that time ( a school teacher from Texas) taught me all the very old cowboy and folk songs. I never had a book but larned the chords and words from her. Many years later I decided to start playing again for my children and did find one book with all the old songs, but lost it. Just last month I bought a new guitar and searched high and low for a book with the old ones in it, with guitar chords. End of review. This is perfect for anyone looking for the songs they learned fifty or more years ago.

This is a great book of folk tunes. They're mostly in easy keys for the guitar (E, D, C), and there are hundreds of songs in here, enough to keep you busy for years.

Great price, too.

I am very pleased with this book. I ordered it to get Clementine and Big Rock Candy Mountain but got so much more as well. The nursery rhymes were fun and many of the Irish and Scottish songs I find worth playing again. The book has over 1000 songs and although I haven't finished them all I am on the second page of a list of songs that I will return to when the end is reached.

THought it would have more popular folk songs. Turned out it had little known ones.

A lot of easy to play songs, but man.. some go back so far I didn't think they had guitars then.