Music You Can Hum Along The Trail

[formerly multipurpose]

I like this arrangement of the song Take On Me by the eighties group A-Ha. Now skip happily down the trail with this song in your head.

 

[Frances Bat]

I generally sing "White coral bells' when alone in the forest to keep my spirits up and warn any lurking bears of my approach.

I like this version of "Take on me' is great! Very uplifting.

 

[formerly multipurpose]

Yes I sing in the forest also because here in Northern California we have black bears, mountain lions, hunters and the worst thing of all, poison oak. Singing doesn't scare off the poison oak, but it makes me look around and pay more attention to my surroundings so no one will be subjected to my terrible voice. These musicians are quite impressive. It's fun to see classically trained musicians do popular music with such enthusiasm.

 

[Coleen Clark]

Let me show you how old I am....

 

[notion900]

 

[Dennis Gemini Guru]

This was mine from the camino Frances ..

 

[ouroboros]

A venerable pilgrim song from the middle ages.
This helped me up many a steep climb!

 

[ouroboros]

And I love this one, and sang it all the time.... to my companion's dismay!

 

[Lurch]

Doesn't anyone wanna sing, "It's a Small World"???

 

[alhartman]

I followed a pair of French pelerin singing the "Sound of Music" soundtrack while walking from El Acebo down to Molinaseca. They were having fun and I was an appreciative audience.

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

Many times I sung "Gracias a la vida" as sung by Mercedes Sosa

 

[Coleen Clark]

This beat was right for me to keep on walkin'.

 

[Purky]

As a musical omnivore a good bit of rock will add spring to my step. With this one I flew across the Meseta. Appropriate lyrics too.

 

[cj2003]

This is in my head whenever I think of walking westwards.....Finisterra! And accidentally it also was the music to accompany me in 2013 when I walked the Camino Frances!

 

[Seabird]

I sang most of the way (and played my ukulele in the evenings). People often joined in as they passed me when I was singing "Let it Be" or "Hallelujah." But my personal anthem was the Kate Wolf song "Across the Great Divide," here sung by Nanci Griffith. The opening lyric: "I've been walking in my sleep....."

 

[ouroboros]

Oh, it's on....
This is the song that got me through the CF to Santiago in 2012.
YO LA TENGO hypnotizes.

 

[SabsP]

Mine was King of Spain by the Tallest Man on Earth!

 

[ouroboros]

OK, The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)
eminently singable!

 

[Coleen Clark]

Oh my dear goodness! I am adding all these to my walking music! How wonderful!
And this one is for all of you.

 

[Purky]

Oh my dear goodness! I am adding all these to my walking music!

Be very careful with the Queens of the Stone Age as walking music. I received quite a number of funny looks when walking and rocking out while playing air guitar with my pilgrim's staff...

 

[Terry aka Tex]

This beat was right for me to keep on walkin'.

I think I could "walk 500 miles" with that tune.

 

[Felipe]

Well, for children of every age, from 8 to 80, there is a French song. It goes as
"A kilometer on foot, it wears the shoes". Then two, three...you get the idea.
It is a favorite of schoolchildren excursions. It has the repetitive rhythm that goes well with walking.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

This is what it feels like from Huyen Trang

Enjoy

 

[J F Gregory]

Let me show you how old I am....

We sang this in 4th grade.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

My offering:

 

[markmcilroy]

for me it is Dire Straits, Walk of Life......

 

[Dylan Price]

To get a good rythem going then either I'm Gonna Be by The Proclaimers or Fields of Fire by Big Cointry

 

[formerly multipurpose]

Excellent walking songs every one, good show. We should make an El Camino walking songs CD. Here is another one I like, a cover of a song by the Texas band Fastball. The lyrics fit the El Camino even though it is based on another subject.