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Top 40 Campfire Songs

Written by Dan Caldwell Wednesday, 07 September 2011 00:00

Canoeroots & Family Camping magazines picks for the Top 40 Campfire songs. Do you agree?

Sitting around the campfire belting out tunes and listening to them reverberate throughout the wilderness is one of life's little pleasures. We've compiled our list of the Top 40 songs to sing to nature ranging from Sublime, Peter, Paul, and Mary and Johnny Cash.

1 House of the rising Sun - The Animals	15 Fire and Rain - James Taylor	30 What I Got - Sublime
2 The lion sleeps tonight - The Evening Birds	16 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd	31 Take It Easy - The Eagles
3 Time of your Life - Green Day	17 Let It Be - The Beatles	32 Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
4 Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin	18 The Weight - The Band	33 Stuck in the Middle with you - Stealer's Wheel
5 Harvest Moon - Neil Young	19 Father and Son - Cat Stevens	34 Day-O - Harry Belafonte
6 Wonderwall - Oasis	20 Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan	35 Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
7 Free Falling - Tom Petty	21 Lean on Me - Bill Withers	36 The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
8 Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary	22 Weighty Ghost - Wintersleep	37 Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
9 American Pie - Don McLean	23 Sittin' on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding	38 Send Me on my Way - Rusted Root
10 Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison	24 Redemption Song - Bob Marley	39 Where have all the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger
11 Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver	25 Country Roads - John Denver	40 I Will Follow you into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
12 Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip	26 Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
13 This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie	27 Walk Away - Ben Harper
14 The Gambler - Kenny Rogers	28 More Than Words - Extreme

Lets hear what you think of our list and add any that we've missed down below in the comments section.

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