So let's see your favorite songs to play on the acoustic. I lean toward songs I can sing and play. Here's my list:

I know these very well:
Burn One Down – Ben Harper
Trouble – Ray LaMontagne
Sparks – Coldplay
Walkaways - Counting Crows
Delicate - Damien Rice
Dixieland Delight – Alabama
Hear You Me – Jimmy Eat World
Hard Way to Fall – Ryan Adams
Hey Ya – Outkast (cover)
Empty – Ray LaMontagne
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams

Helps to see the tabs:
Cannonball – Damien Rice
Drive – Incubus
The Weary Kind – Ryan Bingham
Lie in Our Graves – Dave Matthews Band
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Tripping Billies – Dave Matthews Band
Crash – Dave Matthews Band
Jesus, Etc - Wilco

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Have zero skills on a guitar, but if I could play John Butler's "Ocean"....I'd die a happy man.

Song is amazing.

Shelf in the room- days of the new

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Lie in Our Graves – Dave Matthews Band

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I play this one from time to time. Glad to see a song that I know on this list. Good list.

Southside of Heaven - Ryan Bingham
17 - Cross Canadian Ragweed
She Talks to Angels - The Black Crowes
Doesn' Remind Me - Audioslave

She Talks to Angels sounds phenomenal in Open E, but I don't have time to retune completely for one song at any place I play, most of them being open mics.

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She Talks to Angels sounds phenomenal in Open E, but I don't have time to retune completely for one song at any place I play, most of them being open mics.

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just use a capo.. since open tuning is not a full bar capo, use one like this:
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Creative-Tunings-SpiderCapo?sku=582977

Lie in Our Graves and Shelf in the Room are both great.

I also like to play Over the Hills and Far Away, Mary Had a Little Lamb (SRV), and Neon (JMayer).

I could do a mediocre Drifting (Andy McKee) but I can't do the poly-rhythm thing nearly naturally enough to pull it off anymore because I don't try it. I had to play it EVERY single day for 30 minutes at about 40 BPM for a month before I dared try to play it for anyone else. Counting the bars in my head became such a beating that I got to where I hated the song.

For fun, my favorite chords. Can't use them much, but its great when can work them into a song. I thing it is a Gsus4/F (G suspended 4 with an F root/base?)

E 0
B 3
G 0
D 0
A 3
E 1


Also I snagged this, kind of from the intro to "Castles made of Sand". Not sure on the name.

E x
B x
G 3
D 3
A 6
E 4

It sounds great appregiated, 4-6-33

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there are chord versions of the DMB songs?

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She Talks to Angels sounds phenomenal in Open E, but I don't have time to retune completely for one song at any place I play, most of them being open mics.

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just take 2 guitars

I no longer have two acoustic electrics unfortunately.

How does that capo work once you start finger other stings? Maybe I'm being dense, but it only seems to me that it would solve the problem for that one open chord.

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Maybe I'm being dense, but it only seems to me that it would solve the problem for that one open chord.

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just like a regular capo which can only be on ONE fret at a time, this can do one thing at a time. If you set it as x221xx, then you now have a guitar tuned to open E. problem solved.. right?
If you need another tuning, for another song, then change it... or take it off to go back to regular. look how easy it is to change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5vbV5mLMg
Look how he changes the tuning while playing!

Word of warning, you may come across this one
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Third-Hand-Capo-Universal-Partial-Guitar-Capo?sku=361130
this is a piece.. don't be tempted by the lower price..

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"Willin'" by Little Feat is one my personal favorites to play, super easy too. Also, the acoustic version of "All I Can Do Is Write About It" by Lynyrd Skynyrd is great.

Johnny B Goode
Tennessee flat top box
Fade to Black (can't sing and play this one)
21 in Prison

I am selling my Washburn D10 if anyone is interested.

http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/1815540634.html

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some very old, likely unknown by most here, classically inspired acoustic pieces by a now defunct swedish metal band, Dissection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtSXTM0fBRc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qem0rT8gKzY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITxcCylxLSY&feature=related

I had been playing guitar about 2 years when I heard these, and learned all 3 of them by ear (this was quite a bit before tabs on the internet.)

First song I ever learned was The Hammer Holds by Bebo Norman. Very simple, pretty song that I still play all the time.

I also absolutely love playing Man on the Side, No Such Thing, and Comfortable, all by John Mayer.

Other than those, it's always fun to play songs that use lots of open chords and alternate tunings. Even if I'm no expert, it's just fun.

Alice in Chains Unplugged album is money

Opeth - Coil, Blackwater Park

Intro to Selkies - BTBAM

Cemetery Gates - Pantera

FAde to Black

I Am Legend (Intro) - White Zombie
Tears in Heaven - Clapton
Over the Hills... - Led Zep
Lucky - 7 Mary 3
Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd
Over Now (unplugged) - Alice in Chains
Patience - Guns n Roses
Wiseman - Slightly Stoopid
Say it Aint So - Weezer
Big Sun - Eddie Vedder
Kielbasa - Tenacious D
Nothing Else Matters - Metalica
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
House of the Rising Sun - Animals
Hook - Blues Traveler
More than Words - Extreme
Amie - Pure Prairie League
No Other Way - Jack Johnson
Poor Taylor - Jack Johnson
Plush - STP
River of Deceit - Mad Season
Badfish - Sublime
Don't Follow - Alice in Chains
A Pirate Looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffet

Landslide
Corina, Corina
Like a Rolling Stone
Dead Flowers
Fire on the Mountain
Pinball Wizard

I can't play the guitar, but these are some of my favorite acoustic songs.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - From the Beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1OJ0LAgt4
Godsmack - Running Blind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0LQLO4oVg4
Alice in Chains - Right Turn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fhjfMYxJ4g
Heart - Love Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCt0S4etsec

24 - Switchfoot
Acoustic #3 - Goo Goo Dolls
Only Hope - Switchfoot
Name - Goo Goo Dolls
Cure for Pain - Jon Foreman
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Hands Down (though I prefer listening to the amplified version) - Dashboard Confessional
Green Eyes - Coldplay
Love is Blindness - U2
Amie - Damien Rice
The Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice
Living in Your Letters - Dashboard Confessional
Black Balloon - Goo Goo Dolls
'Til Kingdom Come - Coldplay
Until Morning (acoustic) - Dashboard Confessional

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I saw a few on your lists that I had once learned and have forgotten. And I'm always looking for new songs to learn, so some of the songs you guys mentioned will go into my queue.

"All My Lovin'" The Beatles
"Your Song" Elton John
"T. Sunrise" The Eagles
"Take It Easy" The Eagles
"No Reply" The Beatles
"You Said It Was Love" Ed's Garage
"Blind Side" Ed's Garage
"Summertime" ?
"Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" Bill Withers
"Knights in White Satin" Moody Blues
"Gallows Pole" Led Zep.

More, but just a few favorites.

My son is learning Patience by G'n'R. Probably most Jack Johnson songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8pGjmHLBq8

whenever i pick up an acoustic, i instinctively start playing weezer's say it ain't so.

also zeppelin's over the hills and far away

some of my fave's are already mentioned, but i like playing these tunes as well:

unplugged version of layla
pride and joy
if i had a boat

"someday sarah" - dave barnes
"clarity" - john mayer
"only you" - david crowder
"everything's right" - matt wertz

Some songs off the top of my head that I currently like playing..

A few different Bob Dylan songs:
Like A Rolling stone
Subterranean Homesick Blues
It Ain't Me Babe
Tangled Up in Blue
It's All Over Now, baby blue

the thing about him is his Lyrics are usually insanely long so you need lyrics to play along,

Others:
Neil young: "Needle and the Damage Done", "Old Man", "Rockin in the Free World"
Jeff Tweedy: "The Ruling Class"
The Wood Brothers: "Chocolate on My Tongue"
Dave Matthews: Satellite, Crush, # 41, and the ones mentioned above

I wish I could play John Butler "Ocean".. awesome song

OP has good taste. You could probably play some Amos Lee, too.

I really liked Amos Lee's performance on ACL, but don't like his CD versions as much.

The ones I always go to -

Blackbird - The Beatles
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
Over the Hills and Far Away - Pink Floyd
One - U2
Good Riddance - Green Day
He Went to Paris - Jimmy Buffet
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
Sattelite of Love - Lou Reed
Begin the Begin - REM
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
My Hero - Foo Fighters
Classic Girl - Jane's Addiction
I Can See for Miles - The Who

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Over the Hills and Far Away - Pink Floyd

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Um . . . what?

Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Every Rose Has It's Thorn - Poison

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Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Every Rose Has It's Thorn - Poison

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Lot of great songs listed on this thread. I might add:

Melissa
Little Martha
(Allman Brothers)

and a more obscure Lyle Lovett song: Leaving Carolina.

For some reason, that's a little riff I start playing whenever I pick up a new guitar.