Folk · Tenor · C3–C5
Folk songs a tenor can sing in the original key.
8 of the 13 Folk songs in the catalogue fit a tenor as written — every note between C3 and C5.
The widest of them is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, 17 semitones from C3 to F4; the narrowest is When Under Ether by PJ Harvey, at 8 semitones.
Of the 13, 3 go below C3 and 3 climb above C5; 1 does both.
Every Folk song that fits C3–C5
The best-known songs come first, and the easier ones first inside that. Rows whose chart position nobody matched sit at the end.
| Song | Artist | Year | Range | Original key | Difficulty | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take Me Home, Country Roads | John Denver | 1971 | D3–E4 | A major | 1 | Folk |
| Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley | 1994 | C3–F4 | C Major | 2 | Folk |
| Please Don't Say You Love Me | Gabrielle Aplin | 2013 | A3–C5 | C major | 1 | Folk |
| The Night We Met | Lord Huron | 2017 | F#3–F#4 | A major | 1 | Folk |
| When Under Ether | PJ Harvey | 2007 | C4–G#4 | F minor | 1 | Folk |
| Blackbird | The Beatles | 1968 | E3–G4 | G Major | 1 | Folk |
| Without You | Tobias Jesso Jr. | 2015 | F3–F4 | Db Major | 1 | Folk |
| Your Power | Billie Eilish | 2021 | A3–C5 | A Minor | 1 | Folk |
What this list is
The catalogue holds 430 songs with a sourced lowest and highest note, and 13 of those are Folk. A song is on this page only if both of its notes already sit inside C3–C5 — nothing has been moved to another key.
A voice type is a convention for classifying a trained voice by timbre and where it sits, not a test result on its own.
No song here is marked safe or risky. Those labels are read off notes held for two seconds, and this page has not heard you sing.