Americana Sampler 3-string Cigar Box Guitar Songbook - 41 beloved American Songs

Grab your cigar box guitar and get picking, with this treasure trove of tablature arrangements of 41 beloved American songs!

This songbook includes 6 pages of "how-to-play" information, making it easier than ever to start playing songs on your 3-string Open G GDG cigar box guitar.  This 60-page song book was designed and printed at C. B. Gitty, with all tablature arranged by Ben "Gitty" Baker from amongst some of his favorite American songs. The songs in this book range from Patriotic pieces to classic folk and old-timey songs, western tunes and even some early blues - a sampling of distinctly American songs. Basic arrangements of each song are presented for picking and strumming. We also include the chord names (and chord forms) with each song for strumming along, as well as the song's lyrics, additional verses, and more! 

The goal of this songbook isn't just to present a bunch of music theory or stark, drab tablature... Ben Gitty designed this to give you all of the information you need to either pick or strum along with well known songs... as well as the how-to instructions you need to be able to make full use of the book. There are no dry, dull exercises, scales or rote memorization in this book... just the simplest, quickest and easiest info you need to get busy making music.

Here is a sample of the tablature: 

If this looks confusing to you... don't worry! The 5 pages of photo and diagram-aided how-to information in the songbook walk you right through how to use it!

Here is the list of songs included in this song book:

• America the Beautiful 
• Anchors Aweigh
• Arkansas Traveler
• Aura Lee
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Camptown Races
• Crawdad Hole
• Cripple Creek
• Down In the River To Pray
• Down In the Valley
• Git Along Little Dogies
• Hard Times Come Again No More
• Home On the Range
• In the Pines
• John Henry
• Marines’ Hymn
• My Country ’Tis of Thee
• Nine Pound Hammer
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
• Oh My Darlin’ Clementine
• Oh, Susannah
• Old Joe Clark
• Old MacDonald
• Polly Wolly Doodle
• Red River Valley
• Shady Grove
• She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
• Shenandoah
• Skip To My Lou
• The Star-Spangled Banner
• Streets of Laredo
• Swanee River (Old Folks At Home)
• Take Me Out To the Ball Game
• Tom Dooley
• Turkey In the Straw
• The U. S. Field Artillery March (Caissons Go Rolling Along)
• The Wabash Cannonball
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
• Wildwood Flower
• Yankee Doodle
• You’re A Grand Old Flag