Cocktail Hour Song List – Solo Acoustic Guitar with Vocals

This is a list of songs that I use primarily for wedding cocktail hours and rehearsal dinners. The themes are love, marriage, happiness and celebration. The mood is light and fun with a majority of the songs being medium-tempo with a few ballads and a few up-tempo tunes. There are songs on the list from many eras and genres so there should be something familiar to guests of every age and background.

Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World The Allman Brothers Melissa The Association Never My Love The Avett Brothers January Wedding The Beatles And I Love Her All My Loving All You Need Is Love Any Time At All The Ballad of John and Yoko Here Comes the Sun Here, There and Everywhere I Will I’m Happy Just to Dance With You I’ve Just Seen A Face Norwegian Wood Something Things We Said Today Till There Was You When I’m Sixty Four The Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love To Love Somebody Big Star I’m In Love with a Girl Billy Bragg California Stars The Byrds You Ain’t Going Nowhere (Bob Dylan cover) Michael Buble Everything For Once In My Life You and I (Stevie Wonder) Jimmy Buffett Come Monday J.J. Cale Magnolia Ray Charles Hallelujah I Love Her So Let the Good Times Roll Eagle-Eye Cherry Save Tonight The Church Under the Milky Way Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight Please Be With Me Joe Cocker You Are So Beautiful Marc Cohn True Companion Sam Cooke You Send Me Coldplay Green Eyes Nat King Cole Let There Be Love L-O-V-E Stardust Unforgettable When I Fall In Love Citizen Cope Sideways Harry Connick Jr. A Wink and A Smile And I Love Her Greatest Love Story I Could Write a Book It Had to Be You Elvis Costello She Counting Crows Accidentally In Love Jim Croce I’ll Have to Say I Love You In A Song Christopher Cross Sailing Crosby Stills and Nash Our House Jamie Cullum What A Difference A Day Made The Cure Friday I’m In Love Lovesong Death Cab for Cutie I Will Follow You Into the Dark The Drifters Save the Last Dance for Me Bob Dylan Buckets of Rain If Not for You I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight Lay Lady Lay Make You Feel My Love The Eagles Love Will Keep Us Alive (Paul Carrack) Peaceful Easy Feeling Steve Earle The Galway Girl You’re the Best Lover That I Ever Had George Ezra Budapest Father John Misty Real Love Baby Ben Folds The Luckiest Peter Frampton Baby, I Love Your Way Donavon Frankenreiter Free Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes Jeffrey Gaines The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face In Your Eyes David Gray Babylon The One I Love Sail Away This Year’s Love Al Green Let’s Stay Together Love and Happiness Daryl Hall and John Oates Sara Smile Glen Hansard Falling Slowly Ben Harper Forever Steal My Kisses Jimi Hendrix May This Be Love Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors What Would I Do Without You The Honeydrippers Sea of Love Mississippi John Hurt Coffee Blues I’m Satisfied My Creole Bell Jason Isbell If It Takes A Lifetime Stockholm Alan Jackson Livin’ On Love Remember When Billy Joel Just the Way You Are She’s Got a Way Elton John Blue Eyes Love Song Your Song Jack Johnson Angel Banana Pancakes Better Together I Got You Never Fade Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Joshua Kadison Beautiful In My Eyes Ronan Keating This I Promise You When You Say Nothing At All Robert Earl Keen Gringo Honeymoon I’m Comin’ Home Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet Storybook Love Ray LaMontagne Let It Be Me You Are the Best Thing Amos Lee Arms of A Woman Sweet Pea John Legend All of Me The Lemonheads Into Your Arms John Lennon Grow Old With Me Lonestar Amazed

Lyle Lovett If I Had a Boat Nobody Knows Me The Lovin’ Spoonful Daydream Taj Mahal Lovin’ In My Baby’s Eyes Barry Manilow We’ve Only Just Begun Dave Matthews Steady as We Go You & Me John Mayer Love Is A Verb Love On the Weekend XO Paul McCartney Dance Tonight Every Night My Love My Very Good Friend the Milkman Silly Love Songs John Mellencamp Jack and Diane Small Town Keb’ Mo’ Every Morning Life Is Beautiful She Just Wants to Dance The Whole Enchilada Modern English I Melt With You The Monkees Daydream Believer I’m A Believer Van Morrison And It Stoned Me Bright Side of the Road Crazy Love Days Like This Domino Give Me A Kiss Have I Told You Lately Someone Like You Tupelo Honey Jason Mraz I Won’t Give Up I’m Yours Love Someone Lucky Alexi Murdoch All My Days Randy Newman Feels Like Home Roy Orbison Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) All I Have to Do Is Dream Brad Paisley She’s Everything Tom Petty A Face In the Crowd Free Fallin’ Into the Great Wide Open Wildflowers Phillip Phillips Home Plain White T’s Rhythm of Love The Pogues Love You ‘Til the End Elvis Presley Burning Love Can’t Help Falling In Love Love Me Tender John Prine Angel from Montgomery Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love Joshua Radin I’d Rather Be With You Rascal Flatts / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Bless the Broken Road Otis Redding My Girl Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay Stand By Me That’s How Strong My Love Is The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly) Ed Sheeran Perfect Thinking Out Loud Paul Simon Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard Rene and Georgette Magriette with Their Dog After the War Slip Slidin’ Away That Was Your Mother Frank Sinatra Fly Me To The Moon I Get A Kick Out Of You It Had To Be You I’ve Got You Under My Skin My Funny Valentine The Way You Look Tonight The Smiths There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Bruce Springsteen I Wanna Marry You If I Should Fall Behind Jersey Girl Chris Stapleton More of You Tennessee Whiskey Sting Fields of Gold Shape of My Heart Cat Stevens Wild World George Strait If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’) I Cross My Heart James Taylor Carolina In My Mind Copperline Country Road Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight Fire and Rain How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You Mexico Shower the People Something In the Way She Moves Steamroller Sweet Baby James Walking Man Train Marry Me Meghan Trainor Like I’m Gonna Lose You The Traveling Wilburys Handle With Care Randy Travis Deeper Than the Holler Forever and Ever, Amen The Troggs Love Is All Around The Turtles Happy Together Steve Tyrell A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes A Kiss To Build A Dream On The Way You Look Tonight U2 All I Want Is You Stevie Ray Vaughan Close to You Love Struck Baby Paul Weller Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea Keith Whitley/Allison Krauss When You Say Nothing at All Bill Withers Ain’t No Sunshine Just the Two of Us Lovely Day Stevie Wonder For Once In My Life Isn’t She Lovely My Cherie Amour Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) You and I You are the Sunshine of My Life Neil Young Harvest Moon Long May You Run American Songbook Standards A Kiss to Build A Dream On Ain’t Misbehavin’ All of Me At Last Blue Skies Fly Me to the Moon Georgia On My Mind I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter It Had to Be You It’s Only a Paper Moon I’ve Got the World On a String Love Is Here to Stay Makin’ Whoopee Moon River The Very Thought of You The Way You Look Tonight What A Difference A Day Made You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To

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