What's the first song you ever learned to play on guitar?

[sunvalleylaw]

"Leaving on a Jet Plane" by John Denver

[Algonquin]

Thinking back, it may may been the intro to Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4. Not the whole tune, just the intro.

[rkwrenn]

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

By Robbie Robertson. I learned the version recorded by The Band.

Cheers,

Bob

[street music]

I think that I learned the chords to Down On the Corner and Smoke on the Water about the same time. House of The Rising Sun came next.

[wingsdad]

My older cousin taught me my first stuff. He'd given me his $15 Sears acoustic with about 3" high action and I got nowhere. Then I got a $60 Chicago Harmony 3/4 size 2 pickup solid body. But had no amp.

I was 11, he was 14, a lefty playing a Sears Sivertone Danelectro upside down (strung righty), thru a little Silvertone tube amp, 12" speaker.

We both plugged into that Sears amp and I'm not really sure what came first, cuz he would just fire licks off and my jaw would flap open and watch, trying to figure out WTF was going on upside down. But I'm pretty sure the first licks I learned were Duane Eddy things, all really simple single-string stuff basically confined to the low 3 strings...'Rebel Rouser' sticks out...I know the other stuff he laid on me were Del Shannon 'Runaway', and a boatload of Surf instrumentals...Ventures 'Walk Don't Run'....'Pipeline'...'Wipe Out'...'Apache'...'Wild Weekend' .... and Chet Atkins' version of 'Under The Double Eagle'. Lonnie Mack's version of 'Memphis'. Stuff like that.

EDIT: geez...almost forgot...hubberjub's 'Peter Gunn' movie theme was in that mix, too...

Then he got me into Chuck Berry. So when the Beatles hit, I already knew how to play George's take on 'Roll Over Beethoven'.

[Andy]

House of the rising sun - The Animals.