The first song you learned

**Mandoak** · Dec-28-2012, 9:13pm

Hi everybody
What was the first song you ever learned on Mandolin?
In addition to refreshing some sweet old memories this would give beginners like myself good suggestions for songs to learn.
thanks in advance
Mandoak

**jmp** · Dec-28-2012, 9:17pm

Bach cello suite No. 1 Prelude arranged for solo violin

**yankees1** · Dec-28-2012, 9:40pm

Harvest Home was the first song I could play pretty decent but I think that I first learned a simple tune of Bury Me Beneath the Willows

**OldSausage** · Dec-28-2012, 9:41pm

Old Joe Clark from Jack Tottle's book.

**Pete Martin** · Dec-28-2012, 9:42pm

Blackberry Blossom

**Loretta Callahan** · Dec-28-2012, 9:46pm

Angeline the Baker.

**Alex Orr** · Dec-28-2012, 9:47pm

Probably Arkansas Traveler, from Steve Kaufman's Parking Lot Picker, Vol. 1 book. Actually, maybe "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", which was the first thing I ever picked out by ear on mando, and which I had played for years on guitar before I ever picked up a mandolin. "Old Joe Clark" was always my best flat picking tune on the guitar, so I probably learned it pretty early on mando as well.

**yankees1** · Dec-28-2012, 9:59pm

Originally Posted by Pete Martin

Blackberry Blossom

Pretty tough song for your first one !

**Mike Bunting** · Dec-28-2012, 10:04pm

Can't remember.

**Ethan Setiawan** · Dec-28-2012, 10:22pm

Old Joe Clark.

**yankees1** · Dec-28-2012, 10:24pm

Another good question ------what was the first song you could really play good ? I haven't found it yet !

**Clockwork John** · Dec-28-2012, 10:34pm

First song I learned all the way through was Chinatown Jailbreak, by Flatfoot 56. First song I learned that someone on the cafe might recognize, was Whiskey in the Jar.

**Trip** · Dec-28-2012, 10:39pm

Ole Joe Clark seems to be a popular one.....def one of my first that I could play the lead.......

**Astro** · Dec-28-2012, 10:40pm

Tell Me True (Sarah Jarosz)

**John Flynn** · Dec-28-2012, 10:42pm

The first tune I learned on mandolin was Woody's Rag from the Jack Tottle book

**TheArimathean** · Dec-28-2012, 11:35pm

Just started, but my first is The Rising of the Moon.

**lukmanohnz** · Dec-28-2012, 11:44pm

Whiskey Before Breakfast - found tab online.

**Frank Farley** · Dec-28-2012, 11:48pm

Bile em cabbage down.

**OU1** · Dec-29-2012, 12:11am

Camptown races! Always part of a "warm up" these days....glad you asked the question....

GO SOONERS!

**John McCoy** · Dec-29-2012, 12:29am

Two at the same time:

Dark Eyes
The Lonesome Bull by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

**Jim Bevan** · Dec-29-2012, 12:41am

Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole

**greg_tsam** · Dec-29-2012, 1:25am

Japan by Dave Grisman.

**ColdBeerGoCubs** · Dec-29-2012, 1:36am

Ahhhh, learning songs. So that's what this thing is for.

**Mandolin Mick** · Dec-29-2012, 2:32am

I'm pretty sure that the first song I attempted to learn was "My Last Days on Earth" by Bill Monroe back in the mid `80's. It sounded like he was bending strings or something and I couldn't get it, although I figured out some of the double stops. Years later I discovered that he used a different tuning for that song which I've learned as well as the song!

**Chip Booth** · Dec-29-2012, 3:10am

Probably Battle of Evermore. On guitar it was Jesus Just Left Chicago.

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