Guitar Pedagogy

Here’s Guitar Pedagogy’s master list of one-chord songs, as mentioned in a previous article. It’s as exhaustive a list as we could come up with, alphabetized (ooh!) and complete with links to the lyrics (aah!). While compiling the list, our editor Dave Garlitz briefly became obsessed with one-chord songs, and is sure that there are more of them out there - please leave a comment if you’ve got any to add to the list!

(thanks to shane butler for letting us know that our list had gone missing - ed.)

1. Bad to the Bone
   by George Thorogood
2. Bullet the Blue Sky by U2
3. Catch a Falling Star as sung by Perry Cuomo
4. Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin
5. Coconut by Harry Nillson
6. Electric Avenue by Eddie Grant
7. Exodus by Bob Marley
8. Hey, Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley
9. On the Road Again by Canned Heat
10. Run Through the Jungle by Creedence Clearwater Revival
11. Showbiz Kids by Steely Dan
12. Tomorrow Never Knows* by The Beatles
13. We Will Rock You by Queen

*Of course, Tomorrow Never Knows does have a Bb/C chord, which makes it arguably a two-chorder, but what’s a Bb/C among friends?

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