Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners (Album, May 28,1971)

All songs by Graham Nash, except "Be Yourself" by Nash and Terry Reid.
Side one

"Military Madness" — 0:00
Graham Nash - guitar, vocals; Dave Mason - electric guitar; Joel Bernstein - piano; Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels - bass; Johnny Barbata - drums; Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold -- backing vocals
"Better Days" — 3:30
Nash - piano, organ, vocals; Joe Yankee - piano; Sermon Posthumas - bass clarinet; Samuels - bass; Dallas Taylor - drums; Coolidge - backing vocals; Larry Cox - whiskers
"Wounded Bird" — 7:22
Nash - guitar, vocals
"I Used to Be A King" — 9:33
Nash - guitar, vocals; David Crosby - electric guitar; Jerry Garcia - piano, pedal steel guitar; Phil Lesh - bass; Johnny Barbata - drums
"Be Yourself" — 14:18
Nash - guitar, vocals; Coolidge - piano, electric piano; Fuzzy Samuels - bass; Johnny Barbata - drums; Everyone Loose There - chorus

Side two

"Simple Man" — 17:30
Nash - piano, vocals; David Lindley -- fiddle; Dorian Rudnytsky -- cello; Coolidge - backing vocals
"Man in the Mirror" — 19:51
Nash - guitar, vocals; Yankee - piano; Garcia - pedal steel guitar; Chris Ethridge - bass; Barbata - drums
"There's Only One" — 22:33
Nash - guitar, organ, vocals; Coolidge - piano, backing vocals; Bobby Keys -- saxophone; Ethridge - bass; Barbata - drums; Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews, Clydie King, Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals; Cox - whiskers
"Sleep Song" — 26:30
Nash - guitar, paper, comb, vocals; Rudnytsky - cello
"Chicago" — 29:34
"We Can Change the World" — 32:29
Nash - guitar, organ, piano, tambourine, vocals; Ethridge - bass; Barbata - drums, tambourine; Coolidge, Fields, Matthews, King, Morrison - backing vocals; Cox - whiskers

Additional personnel

Bill Halverson, Russ Gary — recording engineers
Gary Burden — art direction

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