Folk songs at 118 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 476 folk songs with a verified tempo of 118 BPM: acoustic, story-first folk. Here are some of the best known.
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Popular 118 BPM folk songs
Grizzly Bear
Angus & Julia Stone (2014)
Animals Can’t Laugh
Moriarty (2007)
Tchápu na bandera
Mayra Andrade (2009)
Clothes of Sand
Nick Drake (1986)
Symmetry
Maggie Rogers (2014)
Tomhet och tystnad härska
Finntroll (2001)
Marionette
The Civil Wars (2012)
Songes
Emily Loizeau (2009)
Mister Big Time
The Kelly Family (1991)
Schlaflied
Versengold (2015)
Player 23
Robbie Wessels (2009)
Streit oder Frieden
Kastelruther Spatzen (2013)
John Henry
Billy Bragg (2016)
AsiJat a Eva
Tomáš Klus (2009)
John Brown's Body
Pete Seeger (1957)
Sprout and the Bean
Joanna Newsom (2004)
Carol Kaye
Laura Veirs (2010)
Sněženky
Jaromír Nohavica (2000)
I Ain’t Got Nobody
Woody Guthrie (1997)
Dear Abby
John Prine
Jackdaw
Al Stewart (1996)
Weekend Away
Tunng (2010)
Minerva
Ani DiFranco (2005)
Bendik Bada
Aram Serhad (2023)
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