Folk songs at 144 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 386 folk songs with a verified tempo of 144 BPM: acoustic, story-first folk. Here are some of the best known.
144 BPM pushes into workout territory: uptempo rock, dance, and faster hip hop. 144 BPM also lines up with a running cadence of about 144 steps per minute, on the quicker side of an easy jog.
Popular 144 BPM folk songs

Ginger Joe
Moriarty (2015)
Silence 2
Goran Bregović (1998)

Epistle to Derroll
Donovan (1967)

Unut Gitsin
Ezginin Günlüğü (2002)

Transamerika
Modena City Ramblers (1997)

Down Here
Shelby Lynne (2015)

Mermaids
Flight of the Conchords

L’Univers
Dick Annegarn (1974)

The Bells of Rhymney
Pete Seeger (1959)

Můj pes
Jaromír Nohavica (1994)

Suassos Lane
Woody Guthrie (1965)

Santiano
The Highwaymen (1992)
Billy the Bum
John Prine (1972)
Roving Gambler
Burl Ives (2000)

First Boy I Loved
Judy Collins (1968)

Go Down Easy
John Martyn (1973)

Stranger to Himself
Fairport Convention (1975)

Things You Know
Conor Oberst (1994)
Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan
Dschinghis Khan (2007)
Inerrant Infallible
Current 93 (2006)

Beauty Queen Sister
Indigo Girls (2011)

Vulkan
TrollfesT (2014)

Buffalo Dreams
Tom Paxton (2015)
I'm Coming Home
Isbells (2009)
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