Fingerstlye type pieces that everyone knows

guitars4you

Dream a little dream - covered by many inc Mamas and Papas - great moving chord line that supports the song

Elvis - Love me tender - in a cool laid back jazz vibe with finger style comp chord backing and/or  arpeggio 

Lewy

Col_Decker said:

From my own acoustic noodles

Dire Straits ... Romeo & Juliet, Sultans of Swing (maybe leave out the solo)

The Stranglers - Golden Brown

??? - No Diggity

FTFY

menamestom

Romanza 

maltingsaudio

Wonderful Tonight EC
AT 17 Janis Ian
WaterLoo Sunset but play it very slowly as a ballad

Ravenous

menamestom said:

Romanza 

Lots of classical stuff tabbed here (some marked "easy"):

http://www.classtab.org/

For example Romanza is this one:

http://www.classtab.org/anon_romance_de_amor.txt

(Cavatina is on that page too - though I can't recommend that one as I can no longer play it! A couple of stretches I can no longer make.)

viz

Check out Nik Kershaw's recent acoustic sets

Stuckfast

Alone Again Or by Love

Moss

Not that mainstream, but LA Highway by Guy Clark is beautiful to play



Or indeed most of the Heartworn Highways soundtrack

olafgarten

Have you heard Paul Simon do Surfer Girl? That's a very good version.

Other than that almost every Simon and Garfunkel song will work. 

Bridgehouse

Scarborough fair is fun, as is empty chairs by Don McC

Col_Decker

Lewy said:

Col_Decker said:

From my own acoustic noodles

Dire Straits ... Romeo & Juliet, Sultans of Swing (maybe leave out the solo)

The Stranglers - Golden Brown

??? - No Diggity

FTFY

Haha silly me,  what a bell end lol 

HAL9000

Wish You Were Here - PF

PolarityMan

nothing else matters

axisus

menamestom said:

Romanza 

Yes. It's easy and every non-musician thinks you are a God of music if you can play that.

Switch625

Also Romeo & Juliet
Fragile - Sting

PhilKing

Bizarre Love Triangle - the Frente! version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ1c9ErCn7w

PhilKing

Love Song (Cure), the Adele version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5bpYECjPJ4

kin

As someone who spends all week in a town centre shop, the best piece you could learn is the one where you earn a days worth of busking money in an hour and then fuck off  

Not aimed at you personally, but i'm currently in the middle of what will probably be a six hour session of pan pipes. lol

Teetonetal

kin said:

As someone who spends all week in a town centre shop, the best piece you could learn is the one where you earn a days worth of busking money in an hour and then fuck off  

Not aimed at you personally, but i'm currently in the middle of what will probably be a six hour session of pan pipes. lol

Yes, won't be doing that. Been busking at an arts festival, 3x 30 min slots in 3 different places.

I used to work in the Angel Center in Tonbridge and there was one summer where every day a guy played penny whistle for 4 hrs...

underdog

You could an interesting version of Sweet Child of mine.