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Public Domain Songs List of 50

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IMPORTANT: This list is based on USA Copyright Law and is intended only as a help in researching public domain materials. This list is NOT sufficient documentation that music is in the Public Domain. To prove public domain status in the USA, you MUST find a published copy of the song with a copyright date of 1922 or earlier. Our PD Sheet Music Reprints are exact reprints of books and sheet music published in 1922 or earlier and include music, lyrics, and complete original copyright information. Some of these songs may not be PD in countries other than the USA.

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	Title	V=Verse   C=Chorus   N=Note   P=Production   w=Words   m=Music	1 - 3   $5 each 4 up   $4 each
	L'Amour Toujours L'Amour Popular Song	1922 - m. Rudolf Friml, w. Catherine Chisholm Cushing V - Ah, love, you've found me at last In my heart is a song. C - L'amour Toujours l'Amour. Love, now last, you've found me.	PD Reprint
	La Boheme Traditional	Puccini	PD Reprint
	La Donna e Mobile--Rigolette Traditional	Verdi	PD Reprint
	La Marseillaise Traditional	1792 -	PD Reprint
	La Paloma Popular Song	1864 -	PD Reprint
	Laird o' Cockpen Traditional	1885 -	PD Reprint
	Lamplit Hour Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Largo ~ Handel Traditional	m. George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759) w. Thomas Williams V - Father in heav'n They children hear, As they adoring bow, O Thou Almight One, our weakness heed.	PD Reprint
	Last Rose of Summer Traditional	m. Sir John Stevenson, w. Thomas Moore V - Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions are faded and gone. N - Well Known Arrangements also by Beethoven Op. 105, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Fantasy in E Major), and Friedrich von Flowtow (Martha)	PD Reprint
	Lavender's Blue Children	1750 - V - Lavender's blue, diddle, diddle, Lavender's green, When I am king, diddle diddle, You shall be queen.	PD Reprint
	Lazy Mary Will You Get Up? Children	1700s - V - Lazy Mary will you get up, will you get up, Will you get up today?	PD Reprint
	Leola Traditional	1905 - Scott Joplin	PD Reprint
	Let Me Call You Sweeetheart Popular Song	1910 - m. Leo Friedman, w. Beth Slater Whitson	PD Reprint
	Let My People Go	See Go Down Moses
	Let the Rest of the World Go By Popular Song	1919 - m. Ernest Ball, w. J. Keirn Brennan	PD Reprint
	Let Your Feet Tramp ! Tramp ! Children	V - Let you feet Tramp ! Tramp ! Let your hands clap, clap, As each one makes a bow,	PD Reprint
	Levee Song College	N - I've Been Working on the Railroad	PD Reprint
	Li'l Liza Jane Popular Song	1916 - w.m. Ada DeLachau	PD Reprint
	Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) Popular Song	1911 - m. Fritz Kreisler	PD Reprint
	Light Cavalry Overture Traditional	1868 - von Suppe	PD Reprint
	Lightly Row Children	V - Lightly row! Lightly row! O'er the glassy waves we go, Smoothly glide! Smoothly glide. On the silent tide.	PD Reprint
	Limehouse Blues Popular Song	1922 - m. Philip Braham, w. Douglas Furber V - In limehouse where yellow chinkies love to play, In limehouse where you can hear those blues all day C - Oh Limehousekid Oh Oh. Oh Limehouse kid Going the way that the rest of them did	PD Reprint
	Listen to the Mocking Bird Traditional	1855 - Winner	PD Reprint
	Little Annie Rooney Traditional	1890 - Nolan	PD Reprint
	Little Bit of Heaven (Shure They Call it Ireland) Traditional	1914 - m. Ernest R. Ball, w. J. Keirn Brennan V - A little bit of heaven fell from out the sky one day, and it nestled in the ocean in a spot so far away C - Shure they called it Ireland.	PD Reprint
	Little Boy Blue Children	V - Little boy blue, come blow your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;	PD Reprint
	Little Boy Blue (death of a child) Traditional	1891 -	PD Reprint
	Little Brown Church Popular Song	1865 - w.m. William S. Pitts V - There's a church in the valley by the wildwood, No lovelier place in the dale. No spot is so dear to my childhood, as the liitle brown church in the vale. C - Come to the church by the wildwood, Oh come to the church in the dale. No spot is so dear to my childhood, as the liitle brown church in the vale.	PD Reprint
	Little Brown Jug Traditional	1869 -	PD Reprint
	Little Buttercup Traditional	Gilbert & Sullivan	PD Reprint
	Little David, Play on Your Harp Spiritual	V - Little David was a shepherd boy, He killed Goliath, and he shouted for joy. C - Little David, play on your harp, Hallelu! Hallelu! N - Many versions with varying verses, same chorus. V - God told Moses, O Lord! Go down into Egypt, O Lord! Tell ole Pharo' O Lord! Loose my people, O Lord!	PD Reprint
	Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming Christmas, Holiday	1599 - w. 15th Century German, m. 'Es Ist Ein Ros'' V - Lo, how a rose e'er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung. Of Jesse's lineage coming,	PD Reprint
	Loch Lomond Traditional	1881 -	PD Reprint
	London Bridge Children	V - London bridge is falling down, falling down, My fair lady.	PD Reprint
	Londonderry Air	See Danny Boy
	Londonderry Air Traditional	1855 -	PD Reprint
	Lonesome Blues Traditional	1916 - Perry Bradford	PD Reprint
	Long Long Ago Traditional	1843 - m. T. H. Bayly V - Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, Long, long ago, Sing me the songs I delighted to hear C - Long, long ago, long ago.	PD Reprint
	Look for the Silver Lining Popular Song	1920 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Bud DeSylva	PD Reprint
	Lorena Popular Song	1857 - m. J. P. Webster, w. Rev. H. D. L. Webster V - The years creep slowly by, Lorena, More than we ever dared to tell; The snow is on the grass again, The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, The frost gleams where the flow'rs have been.	PD Reprint
	Lost Chord Traditional	1877 - Sullivan	PD Reprint
	Love Will Find A Way ~ Blake Popular Song	1921 - w.m. Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake	PD Reprint
	Love Will Find a Way ~ Graham Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Love's Joy (Liebesfreud)	See Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)
	Love's Old Sweet Song Traditional	1884 - w. G. Clifton Bingham V - Once in the drear dead days beyond recall, When on the world the mist began to fall C - Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low, And the flick'ring shadows softly come and go	PD Reprint
	Loveless Love Popular Song	1921 - m. W. C.Handy, w. W. C. Handy	PD Reprint
	Lovely Evening Children	V - Oh, how lovely is the evening, is the evening, When the bells are sweetly ringing, sweetly ringining, ding, dong, ding, dong, ding, dong. N - Round	PD Reprint
	Low Bridge Everybody Down Popular Song	1913 - P - Thomas S. Allen V - I got a mule and her name is Sal C - Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal	PD Reprint
	Lullaby from Erminie Children	E. Jakobowski V - Dear mother ! In dreams I see her, With lov'd face sweet and calm, And hear her voice with love rejoice C - Bye, bye drowsiness o'er taking, Pretty little eyelids sleep.	PD Reprint
	Lullabye Traditional	Brahms	PD Reprint

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