3 Chord Thursday: Wild Life Day (animals)

Thursday 3rd March 2022 is Wild Life Day. We celebrate with songs about (wild) animals and bring a stuffed animal if you don’t have a real pet. Our one-hour song sessions are livestreamed but no longer publicly available after the livestream. Please subscribe to the Youtube Channel to get notification and the link to the video so you won’t miss it.

DRESS CODE: safari T-shirt, top with a wild animal on it, colors of the jungle, … use your imagination.

Illustration by Eve Myles

Can you think of songs about wild life? Wild animals? Here are some suggestions.

  • Africa – Toto
  • Baby Elephant Walk
  • Bat Out of Hell – Meatloaf
  • Blackbird – The Beatles
  • Born To Be Wild
  • Buffalo Soldier – Bob Marley
  • Circle of Life
  • Crocodile Rock
  • Eagle and the Hawk, The – John Denver
  • Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
  • Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynrd
  • Horse with No Name – America
  • Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran
  • I Am the Walrus – The Beatles
  • I Wanna Be Like You (from The Jungle Book)
  • Little Red Riding Hood in Am [7] (1-page PDF)
  • Octopus’s Garden – The Beatles
  • Rocky Raccoon – The Beatles
  • See You Later Alligator
  • Teddy Bear Picnic
  • The Bare Necessities (from The Jungle Book)
  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens
  • Three Little Birds
  • Tiger – ABBA
  • Union of the Snake – Duran Duran
  • Walk on the Wild Side
  • White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
  • Wild Thing
  • Wild World

The Line-Up

  1. I Want To Be Your Teddy Bear in C [3] – Bruce (MI) (2-page PDF)
  2. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky by Stan Jones, in Am [3] – Paul (GA)
  3. Mr Ed in A [4] – Bruce (IT) (1-page PDF)
  4. Take a Walk on the Wild Side [5] – Beth (MA)
  5. I Ran (so far away) – A Flock of Seagulls [5] – Anne (MA, Adrienne (TX) (4-page PDF)
  6. Tiger by ABBA [6] – Sue (UK) (2-page PDF) (Fm6 is 1213)
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