Hello and welcome. Of course, you can play any song you like on acoustic guitar.
I only had a problem with āGo With the Flowā, I could not hear the D5 that is on the hints section. For me sounds like a G5.
Iām not sure if Iām missing something, but are the actual answers on the site, or are we expected to look them up separately? I tried my best and looked at the tips once I thought Iād gotten each song down, but I couldnāt find the actual āThis is how the song goesā.
I got Mollyās Lips and All The Small Things without many problems, and I had to skip Blitzkreig Bop because Iād already learnt how to play that previously. 
Fly Away I mostly got but I cannot figure out where the B5 is. Polly I got completely and utterly wrong, and listening to the beginning of Go With the Flow I canāt figure out how there are four chords, I can only hear threeā¦
Hi Nick,
Welcome back here 
No the ācorrectā answers are not here on the siteā¦ In the beginning it may be fun once you have done it and look it up somewhere and continue if it is all good, but the important thing is whether it sounds the same in your ears (or at least good) when you play your written chords, if you notice a difference in coulor sound then you have to continue puzzlingā¦
Greetings,Rogier
Edit:
I copied this from the text below the video as a nice addition I hope
One common beginner mistake is trying to get in too much too soon when learning to transcribe. If you can work out most of a song but a few notes are missing, just gloss over it!! Leave the embellishments and more complicated stuff for later when your ears are fine-tuned! Iām pretty sure most of what I learned in the first few years of transcribing wasnāt that accurate - but the process will still strengthen your ears!
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Hi
Getting back to actually trying thisā¦
I got the chords for Mollyās Lips right away, but not the exact strumming.
I got about 80% of Polly and Blitzkrieg Bop after 2 sessions.
I havenāt done the other songs (not into the songs; maybe the Lenny).
Is it ok to move on to the next transcribing lesson (riffs)? 
Thanks
Andrew
I have to admitā¦ I suck at thisā¦ I think the heavy distortion in most of these songs makes it harder for me to nail some of the chords. I feel like songs without all the fuzz, I have an easier time with. I guess its a marathon, not a sprint. On the plus side listening to Fly Away motivated me to try to play with all Barre chords (the Barre chords are much easier to identify than the power chord equivalent - at least to my ears). When the connective tissue on my fretting hand heals a little, I might even try again
I was able to work out Mollyās Lips P5 chords and the strumming pattern / beat. I did not write out all 74 bars though. I did not try get the last bar outtro/finale bit and I think I should have. This is hard but good. Will keep at it. My wife does this all the time - stuff comes on the radio and she just starts working it out.
I was able to work out Blitzkrieg Bob! Took about 20 mins.
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Implicit assumption through this lesson that your students are on an electric guitar! Some of us prefer or only have our acoustics!
Would anyone like to venture a reason as to why I hear the chorus of Mollyās lips as a I IV V IV sequence in G rather than I IV I IV in G? Even when jamming with the recording it sounds to me as thought there is a V in there.
I have a couple of thoughts of my own:
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Iām more attuned to the melody rather than the chord progression.
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the bass player plays a D note below the guitars playing the G chord
Iād be interested in your thoughts.
Note: I hear the verse chords as a I IV I IV sequence.
If you are listening for the root (or bass) note of the chord, then hearing the 5th interval of a note is very common. Itās because the 5th overtones are very strong and stable - so you are actually hearing the sound, even though the note isnāt being played. I do it a lot when transcribing single notes - particularly bass notes. If Iām not 100% certain of a note then Iāll check the note which has the sound Iām hearing as itās 5th.
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Ti add to what Paul said
Mollyās Lips is power chords so Root and 5th only. So changing from the IV back to the I if your expecting it to go to the V you could be hearing the 5th of the one.
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@mathsjunky Paul, @stitch Rick,
Thanks for the responses.
Yes of course. I see this all the time on my clip on tuner. It often thinks itās hearing a B (the V) when I tune the low E (1) on guitar (and maybe the E on basses). I just get on with the rest of the tuning and donāt pay a 2nd thought to the tuner having āheardā a B.
That makes sense.
I think those 2 reasons plus the melody note being (I think) a D (the V), is dragging me towards hearing a V.
The good things are:
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I understand my ear better than I did this time yesterday.
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For the time being itās not really an issue for me. The times Iāve to use my ear playing live are on piano and bass rather than guitar. On bass if I play a V under a I chord, it almost always sounds good. On piano I usually have the chord chart, so my ear is only really being used for the melody - I suspect that having done this for about 30 years has attuned my ear towards melodies rather than chord progression.
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For those of you asking about getting music off Spotify (or other streaming platforms) and into Transcribing software - I love the program called Audio Hijack - it can record the audio from any application or website, into whatever format you want. Itās super clever! You have to buy it, but itās well worth it - can record YouTube vids (audio only) or whatever. Very handy!
Decided this would take up more time than I am willing to commit.