What are some good acoustic guitar songs?

What are some good songs to busk on solo acoustic guitar?

• Some songs that would sound good solo, sounds/is complicated. Eg music like sublime, dire straits, red hot chili peppers, jack johnson but all the stuff I know seems to rely more on the band than just the guitar. Or it has 1 really good riff but the rest of the song is just chords (eg taylor). I sometimes go out with my mate who jams over what I play on clarinet but I'm sick of splitting the money. So what are some good songs? (I can't sing by the way). And what could I play? Like could I play solo-y kind of stuff like the dire straits even though it has a lot of gaps? Could I fill that in with the background chords or what? And how could I spice up a basic chord progression (like playing it on the higher 3 or 4 strings and messing around adding on the 9ths, 6ths and 4ths but more interesting)? Thanks

• Answer:

  Really popular, well known songs, that will catch people's ear and encourage them to give you some attention and then, hopefully, money. Things like American Pie, Wonderwall, Hallelujah, Beatles songs, Take That songs, etc. If it's just music, then you should consider Hendrix, Chillis, etc, but it will never get people like a singer will. After all, you don't need to be that good and you can play an electric with an amp and just sing along.