Becky Reyes: Music & Lyrics

The songs listed here are the songs that I play at our acoustic gigs. Scott will occasionally accompany me. We're learning more songs together. I also want to add that these songs are songs that I love. That's where I started when compiling this list of songs. Over the years, folks have requested songs and though we don't have time to learn all your requests, occasionally one song will really stand out and we just know we have to learn it. Thanks everyone. Our little list is growing and every song we sing means something to us.

Alphabetized by first name or band name most closely associated with the song, not necessarily by the author of the song. 

Aimee Mann
• Save me

Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Agua de Beber
• Corcovado
• Girl from Ipanema

Big Bill Broonzy
• Key to the Highway

Band (The)
• Evangeline
• The Weight

Beatles (The)
• Baby It’s You
• Blackbird
• For No One
• Golden Slumbers
• Here, There and Everywhere
• I’m Looking Through You
• In My Life
• I’ve Just Seen a Face
• I Will
• Norwegian Wood
• Yesterday
• You’ve got to hide your Love Away

Becky Reyes
• As Long as You are Willing
• Back Sometime
• Ballad of Ben Johnson
• Bisbee Whores (The)
• Buffalo Soldiers (The)
• Coffee Houses
• Echoing the Blues
• Foolin’ Everyone
• Guest and his Quest (The)
• Hand me the Bottle
• Haunt (The)
• Hijos de Guerra
• Hollywood Sign
• Hoops
• I Can’t Think of Anything to Say
• I Feel Fine
• Kent’s Song
• Live With Me
• Mary’s Room
• Mrs. Sam Stone
• Music Be My Lover
• OK Street
• This River
• Threads of Steel
• Time is a Healer
• Traveling Without You
• Trouble with Harry (The)
• Untitled
• Vallarta
• We Are Always Evolving (Every Day)
• Winter Man (The)

Bill Monroe
• Blue Moon of Kentucky

Blind Faith
• I Can’t Find My Way Home

Bob Dylan
• Baby Let Me Follow You Down
• Boots of Spanish Leather
• Buckets of Rain
• Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
• Corrina, Corrina
• Girl of the North Country
• I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
• Shelter from the Storm
• Tangled Up In Blue
• The Wedding Song
• You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Bob Marley
• Redemption Song

Bobbie Gentry
• Ode to Billie Joe

Bonnie Raitt
• Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
• Louise
• Love Has No Pride
• Nobody’s Girl
• Women Be Wise

Buddy Holly
• True Love Ways

Carole King
• It’s Too Late
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
• You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman

Cat Stevens
• Father and Son
• How Can I Tell You?
• The First Cut is the Deepest
• Trouble

Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
• Lodi

CSNY
• Helplessly Hoping

Curtis Mayfield
• People Get Ready

Cyndi Lauper
• Time After Time

Dan Fogelberg
• Go Down Easy

David Bowie
• Changes

Dolly Parton
• Jolene

Don Henley
• The Heart of the Matter

Doors
• People are Strange

Eagles (The)
• Desperado
• Hollywood Waltz
• Take it to the Limit
• Tequila Sunrise

Eartha Kitt
• Santa Baby

Elvis Costello
• Alison

Emmylou Harris
• Blue Kentucky Girl
• C’est La Vie
• Gulf Coast Highway
• Leavin’ Louisiana (in the Broad Daylight)
• One of These Days
• Pancho and Lefty
• ‘Til I Gain Control Again
• Two More Bottles of Wine

Eric Clapton
• Please Be With Me

Everly Brothers
• So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)

Fats Waller
• Ain’t Misbehavin’

George Gershwin
• Summertime

George Strait
• Amarillo by Morning

Gordon Lightfoot
• If You Could Read My Mind

Gram Parsons
• Return of the Grievous Angel
• You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Grateful Dead
• Ripple

Green Day
• Good Riddance (The Time of your Life)

Hank Williams
• Hey Good Lookin’
• I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love w/You)
• I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
• Jambalaya

Hoagy Carmichael
• The Nearness of You

Indigo Girls
• Closer to Fine

Iris Dement
• Let the Mystery Be

Jackson Browne
• Cocaine Blues
• Road (The)
• Something Fine

James Taylor
• Bartender’s Blues
• Mill Worker
• Sweet Baby James
• You Can Close Your Eyes

Janis Joplin
• Mercedes Benz

Jefferson Airplane
• Comin’ Back to Me

Jimmy Buffett
• A Pirate Looks At 40
• Margaritaville

Joan Armatrading
• The Weakness in Me

Joan Baez
• Gracias a la Vida

Joe Jackson
• Fools in Love

John Hiatt
• Icy Blue Heart

John Prine
• Angel From Montgomery
• Dear Abby
• Hello In There
• Illegal Smile
• Paradise
• Please Don’t Bury Me
• Spanish Pipedream

Jonathan Edwards
• Shanty

Joni Mitchell
• Barandgrill
• Big Yellow Taxi
• Both Sides Now
• California
• Court and Spark
• Free Man in Paris
• Night Ride Home
• People’s Parties
• You Turn Me On… I’m a Radio

Judy Collins
• Someday Soon

Karla Bonoff
• Home

Kingston Trio (The)
• Scotch and Soda

Kinks (The)
• A Rock and Roll Fantasy
• Sunny Afternoon

Kris Kristofferson
• Me and Bobby McGee

Lacy J. Dalton
• 16th Avenue

Leonard Cohen
• Hallelujah

Linda Ronstadt
• Crazy
• Crazy Arms
• Different Drum
• Faithless Love
• Heart Like a Wheel
• Icy Blue Heart

Linda Ronstadt (continued)
• I Fall To Pieces
• I Still Miss Someone
• Long, Long Time
• Love is a Rose
• Old Paint
• Silver Threads and Golden Needles
• Simple Man, Simple Dream
• Those Memories of You
• Tracks of My Tears
• Willin’

Loudon Wainwright III
• Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
• Mr. Guilty
• Guru
• Unrequited to the Nth Degree

Louis Jordan
• Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (My Baby)
• Let the Good Times Roll

Lowest of the Low
• Letter From Bilbao
• So Long Bernie

Little Feat - Lowell George
• Willin’

Mama Cass
• Dream a Little Dream

Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Quittin’ Time

Michelle Shocked
• Anchorage
• Blackberry Blossom
• The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore

Moody Blues
• Nights in White Satin

Nancy Griffith
• Once in a Very Blue Moon
• Gulf Coast Highway

Neil Diamond
• Save me a Saturday Night

Neil Young
• Comes a Time
• Harvest
• Harvest Moon
• Heart of Gold
• Human Highway
• Long May You Run
• Love is a Rose
• Needle and the Damage Done
• Out on the Weekend

Patsy Cline
• Crazy
• I Fall To Pieces
• Sweet Dreams
• Walkin’ After Midnight
• You Belong to Me

Paul McCartney
• Every Day

Paul Simon
• Mother and Child Reunion
• Slip-Sliding Away

Peggy Lee
• Fever
• Why Don’t You Do Right
• You Was Right, Baby

Peter Rowan
• Midnight Moonlight

Pink Floyd
• Comfortably Numb
• Wish You Were Here

Police (The)
• Wrapped Around Your Finger

Procol Harum
• Whiter Shade Of Pale

Roches (The)
• Down the Dream
• Runs in the Family
• The Married Men

Rodney Crowell
• Elvira
• Leavin’ Louisiana in the Broad Daylight

Rolling Stones (The)
• Wild Horses

Roseanne Cash
• Man Smart, Women Smarter

Sam Cooke
• You Send Me

Shawn Colvin
• Back to Salome (from Tin Cup)

Sheryl Crow
• Strong Enough
• The First Cut Is the Deepest

Simon and Garfunkle
• America
• Kathy’s Song

Stephen Stills
• 4 + 20

Steve Goodman
• City of New Orleans

Stevie Nicks
• Beautiful Child
• Crystal
• Landslide

Sting
• Fields of Gold
• Wrapped Around Your Finger

Suzanne Vega
• Gypsy

Thea Gilmore
• Water to Sky

Tom Petty
• Free Fallin’
• Yer So Bad

Tom Waits
• Grapefruit Moon
• Hold On
• Ice Cream Man
• I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
• Looks Like I’m Up Shit Creek Again
• Martha
• Ol’ ‘55
• Old Shoes and Picture Postcards
• Rosie
• Ruby’s Arms

Townes Van Zandt
• If I Needed You
• Pancho and Lefty

Tracy Chapman
• Fast Car

Van Morrison
• Crazy Love

Warren Zevon
• Carmelita
• Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

Willie Nelson
• Crazy
• My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
• Pancho and Lefty

Woodie Guthrie
• Deportee

Irish/Celtic
• Clare to Here
• Finnegan’s Wake
• Gypsy Rover (The)
• Jolly Beggar Man (The)
• Lakes of Pontchartrain
• Mairi’s Wedding
• Morning Glory (The)
• Parting Glass (The)
• Red is the Rose
• Star of the County Down
• Tell Me Ma
• Whiskey in the Jar
• Whiskey is the Life of Man
• Wild Colonial Boy
• Wild Rover (The)

Spanish
• Cielito Lindo
• El Día Que Me Quieras
• El Reloj
• Ella
• Fumando Espero
• Gracias a la Vida
• La Frontera
• La Llorona
• La Rondalla
• La Sirena
• Las Mañanitas
• Malagueña Salerosa
• Noche De Ronda
• No Vuelvo Amar
• Todo Cambia
• Tu Que Puedes, Vuélvete
• Un Viejo Amor
• Volver

Standards (Jazz & Blues)
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
• Angel Eyes
• Autumn Leaves
• Blues in the Night
• Come On-a My House (A Capella)
• Come Up and See Me Sometime
• Cow-Cow Boogie
• Cry Me A River
• Fever
• Fine Brown Frame
• Frim Fram Sauce
• Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
• Girl From Ipanema
• Glory of Love
• Hound Dog
• I’ve Got What It Takes (But It Breaks My Heart to Give it Away)
• Lover Come Back To Me
• Lover Man
• Makin’ Whoopee
• Manhã de Carnaval (Black Orpheus)
• Moonglow
• Moscow Nights
• Murder, He Says
• My Handyman
• Mystery Train
• Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down and Out)
• No One Ever Tells You
• Santa Baby
• Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
• Slow Boat to China
• Stormy Weather
• Sunny
• Swingin’ on a Star
• Willow Weep for Me

Traditional/Cowboy
• Back in the Saddle Again
• Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
• Cotton-Eye Joe
• Danny Boy
• Down in the Valley
• Freight Train (Libba Cotten)
• Git Along Little Dogies
• Hard Times Come Again No More
• Home on the Range
• House of the Rising Sun
• Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande
• Red River Valley
• St. James Infirmary
• Streets of Laredo
• Tennessee Waltz
• The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore
• Waltz Across Texas
• You Are My Sunshine

Miscellaneous Songs
• Day After Day
• Now and Then (There’s a Fool Such As I)
• Put the Blame on Mame
• The F-Word Song