Folk songs at 122 BPM
TempoTunes has 304 folk songs with a verified tempo of 122 BPM: acoustic, story-first folk. Here are some of the best known.
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Popular 122 BPM folk songs

Get Back
The Beatles (2021)

Please Mrs. Henry
Bob Dylan (2009)

Ecuador
Carlos Santana (1983)
Sparrow
Simon & Garfunkel (2002)

Ballad of Hollis Brown
Rise Against (2012)

Our Lady of Solitude
Leonard Cohen (1979)
Beware of Darkness
George Harrison (1971)

What It Is
Mark Knopfler (2000)

Sunny Disposition
Neil Diamond (2014)
[untitled]
Boards of Canada (1995)
History of Violence
Moriarty (2015)
Glad to Be Unhappy
The Mamas & the Papas (1980)
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