Folk songs at 117 BPM
TempoTunes has 556 folk songs with a verified tempo of 117 BPM: acoustic, story-first folk. Here are some of the best known.
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Popular 117 BPM folk songs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bob Dylan (1995)
The World Needs a Melody
Johnny Cash (1972)
Animal
Francis Cabrel (2000)
There Goes My Babe
Neil Young (2000)
The Window
Leonard Cohen (1979)
Behind That Locked Door
George Harrison (2011)
Pancake Lizard
Aphex Twin (1992)
I Forget Where We Were
Ben Howard (2015)
Bonnie & Clyde
Vance Joy (2018)
Baudelaire
Angus & Julia Stone (2017)
Come on Back Jesus
Willie Nelson (2012)
Jason
Sufjan Stevens (2000)
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