Three Chord Thursday Themes for 2021

The schedule of themes for 2021 will be released soon for Three Chord Thursday. The first session in 2021 will be Thursday 14th January 2021 at 3 pm EST on the theme of WISHES, DREAMS, DESIRES, GOALS.

12-bar blues

ABBA

Beatles

Birds & the Bees

Break-up and Heartbreak

Cats and other feline loves of our lives

Children’s songs

Chord Melody Arrangements

Common Chord Progressions

Dogs and other canine loves of our lives

Exactly three chord songs that are not so easy

Exercise: climbing, cycling, running, swimming

• Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
• Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
• Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen
• I Ran – Flock of Seagulls
• Ready to Run – Dixie Chicks
• Ready to Run – One Direction
• Runaround Sue
• Run Away – Bon Jovi
• Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
• Runnin’ Down A Dream — Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
• Run to You – Bryan Adams
• Take It On the Run – REO Speedwagon
• The Long Run – The Eagles
• Thorn in My Side – Eurythmics (see 2018 BUS Songbook)
• Under Pressure – Queen
• We Are the Champions – Queen
• You Better Run – Pat Benatar

Extremely easy songs with many many chords

Famous riffs

Girl Power

Irving Berlin

Island Theme

Location (part 3, …)

Love songs, timeless

Lullabies

Medleys

Murder Ballads

Non-English lyrics

Non-lexical Vocables (part 3, …)

One Hit Wonders

Oscar-winning songs

Pluck & Strum

Really Silly Songs

RIP John Prine, Kenny Rogers, Eddie Van Halen, Helen Reddy, …

Songs that famously modulate

Songs with famous ostinati

Songs that make you want to get up and boogie

Songs that rip off classical music

• A Whiter Shade of Pale (JS Bach Air on a G String)
• All By Myself (Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto)
• One Tin Soldier (Pachelbel – Canon in D)
• Puff the Magic Dragon (Pachelbel – Canon in D)
• Streets of London (Pachelbel – Canon in D)

Travis picking

Weather

• A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall 
• A Hazy Shade of Winter
• Ain’t No Sunshine
• Blowin’ in The Wind
• Blue Skies
• Candle in the Wind
• Catch The Wind
• Dust in The Wind 
• Fire and Rain 
• Good Day Sunshine 
• Heatwave
• Here Comes The Sun
• Let the Sunshine In 
• Lightning Strikes 
• Purple Rain
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head 
• Rainy Days and Mondays
• Rainy Day Woman
• Rainy Night in Georgia 
• Singing in The Rain 
• Snowbird
• Stormy Monday
• Sunny Side of The Street 
• Sunshine Go Away 
• Sunshine of Your Love
• Sunshine Superman 
• The Rain Song
• Thunder Road
• Walking on Sunshine 
• Who’ll Stop The Rain, Rain
• You Are My Sunshine

Wishes, dreams, desires, goals

Year of the Ox