In May 2019, we asked Acoustic Guitar community members to review a list of 125 songs which had been requested multiple times in an earlier survey. Here are the Top 100, ranked in order of preference.
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| 1 | Sultans of Swing | Dire Straits |
| 2 | Georgia | Ray Charles |
| 3 | In My Life | The Beatles |
| 4 | Fire & Rain | James Taylor |
| 5 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | The Beatles |
| 6 | Summer in the City | Lovin’ Spoonful |
| 7 | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 8 | Carolina in my Mind | James Taylor |
| 9 | Tangled Up in Blue | Bob Dylan |
| 10 | Girl from Ipanema | Antonio Carlos Jobim |
| 11 | Stardust | Willie Nelson |
| 12 | Crazy | Willie Nelson |
| 13 | Black Water | Doobie Brothers |
| 14 | Candy Man | John Hurt |
| 15 | Blue Bayou | Roy Orbison |
| 16 | Classical Gas | Mason Williams |
| 17 | What´s Going On | Marvin Gaye |
| 18 | Time In A Bottle | Jim Croce |
| 19 | Here Comes the Sun | The Beatles |
| 20 | Hotel California | The Eagles |
| 21 | Blue Eyes | Willie Nelson |
| 22 | Heard It Through the Grapevine | Marvin Gaye |
| 23 | Sweet Baby James | James Taylor |
| 24 | Harvest Moon | Neil Young |
| 25 | Tennessee Stud | Doc Watson |
| 26 | Nuages | Django Reinhardt |
| 27 | The Boxer | Paul Simon |
| 28 | Down on the Corner | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 29 | Old Man | Neil Young |
| 30 | Lodi | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 31 | You’ve Got A Friend | James Taylor |
| 32 | Turn! Turn! Turn! | The Byrds |
| 33 | Sounds Of Silence | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 34 | Moonshadow | Cat Stevens |
| 35 | Tears in Heaven | Eric Clapton |
| 36 | Ramble On | Led Zeppelin |
| 37 | Light My Fire | Jose Feliciano |
| 38 | Desperado | The Eagles |
| 39 | Heart of Gold | Neil Young |
| 40 | California Dreaming | The Mamas and Papas |
| 41 | Crying | Roy Orbison |
| 42 | Over the Hills and Far Away | Led Zeppelin |
| 43 | Oh, Pretty Woman | Roy Orbison |
| 44 | Sunny Afternoon | The Kinks |
| 45 | You Are the Sunshine of My Life | Stevie Wonder |
| 46 | Goin’ to California | Led Zeppelin |
| 47 | Let It Be | The Beatles |
| 48 | Solsbury Hill | Peter Gabriel |
| 49 | Daydream | Lovin’ Spoonful |
| 50 | Behind Blue Eyes | The Who |
| 51 | Vincent | Don McLean |
| 52 | Blackbird | The Beatles |
| 53 | The Needle and the Damage Done | Neil Young |
| 54 | Eight Miles High | The Byrds |
| 55 | Angie | The Rolling Stones |
| 56 | Wild World | Cat Stevens |
| 57 | Mexico | James Taylor |
| 58 | I Can’t Stop Loving You | Ray Charles |
| 59 | Simple Twist of Fate | Bob Dylan |
| 60 | The Heart of Saturday Night | Tom Waits |
| 61 | Take It Easy | The Eagles |
| 62 | Daydream Believer | The Monkees |
| 63 | Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison |
| 64 | From the Beginning | Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| 65 | Pamela Brown | Leo Kottke |
| 66 | Mama Tried | Merle Haggard |
| 67 | Free Falling | Tom Petty |
| 68 | Father and Son | Cat Stevens |
| 69 | Mack the Knife | Bobby Darin |
| 70 | Rocky Mountain High | John Denver |
| 71 | Taxi | Harry Chapin |
| 72 | 1952 Vincent Black Lightning | Richard Thompson |
| 73 | Urge for Going | Joni Mitchell |
| 74 | Lola | The Kinks |
| 75 | Give a Little Bit | Supertramp |
| 76 | Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright) | Bob Dylan |
| 77 | Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd |
| 78 | Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton |
| 79 | Genesis | Jorma Kaukonen |
| 80 | El Paso | Marty Robbins |
| 81 | Wildfire | Martin Michael Murphy |
| 82 | Waterloo Sunset | The Kinks |
| 83 | Tired of Waiting | The Kinks |
| 84 | Dimming of the Day | Richard Thompson |
| 85 | Last Train To Clarksville | The Monkees |
| 86 | Magic Bus | The Who |
| 87 | Chain Of Fools | Aretha Franklin |
| 88 | Mr. Tambourine Man | Bob Dylan |
| 89 | King of the Road | Roger Miller |
| 90 | Make You Feel My Love | Bob Dylan |
| 91 | Part of the Plan | Dan Fogelberg |
| 92 | Annie’s Song | John Denver |
| 93 | Dust in the Wind | Kansas |
| 94 | Jolene | Dolly Parton |
| 95 | Stairway to Heaven | Led Zeppelin |
| 96 | Beeswing | Richard Thompson |
| 97 | Pink Moon | Nick Drake |
| 98 | Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag | James Brown |
| 99 | Squeeze Box | The Who |
| 100 | If We Were Vampires | Jason Isbell |