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Public Domain Songs List of 245

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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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CAUTION - Many Lesser Known PD Songs Are Not Found at YouTube
Be EXTREMELY CAREFUL with Song Identification - There are MANY songs with VERY SIMILAR titles.
REMEMBER that even though a PD version exists, any derivative work published after 1922 is under copyright protection.

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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
	Ba-Be-Bi-Bo-Bu College		PD Reprint
	Babes In The Wood Popular Song	1915 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Schuyler Greene, Herbert Reynolds P - Very Good Eddie - 1915, Musical V - Little Lady don't be depressed and blue, After all we're both in the same canoe C - Give me your hand, here where we stand, We're off to Slumberland. Some dry your eyes, I'll sympathize, Like a father, mother, brother.	PD Reprint
	Babies on our Block Traditional	1879 -	PD Reprint
	Baby Love Popular Song	w.m. Lew Berk	PD Reprint
	Baby Mine ~ Friedman Popular Song	1901 - m. Leo Friedman, w. Raymond A. Browne V - When your heart is itching From love's sweet bewitching, strange things you will say and do C - Baby mine, Baby mine, Kiss me, honey, kiss me	PD Reprint
	Baby Mine ~ Johnston Traditional	1875 - m. Archibald Johnston, w. Charles Mackey V - I've a letter from thy sire, Baby mine; I could read and never tire, Baby mine. C - .. He is coming back to thee! Baby mine.	PD Reprint
	Baby Mine ~ Manning Popular Song	1910 - w.m. Clarence Manning V - Young wifie to hubby did say; Dear you tend the baby I pray. The XYZA holds a meeting today . . . C - Baby mine, Baby mine, Mama will come to you soon	PD Reprint
	Baby Rag Popular Song	1917 - m. Tom Kennedy Ed Morton, w. Tom Kennedy, Ed Morton	PD Reprint
	Baby Rose Popular Song	1911 - m. George Christie, w. Lou Weslyn	PD Reprint
	Baby Shoes Popular Song	1916 - m. Al Piantadose, w. Joe Goodwin, Ed Rose	PD Reprint
	Back Among the Clover and the Corn Popular Song	1904 -	PD Reprint
	Back Home Again in Indiana	See Indiana (Back Home Again In)
	Back Home In Tennessee Popular Song	1905 - m. Walter Donaldson, w. William Jerome	PD Reprint
	Back to Life Traditional		PD Reprint
	Back-log De Traditional	1862 -	PD Reprint
	Badinage Traditional	1897 -	PD Reprint
	Baghdad Popular Song	1918 - m. Al Jolson, Sigmund Romberg, w. Harold Atteridge V - Cross the desert plains a traveler worn Came fatiguede and forlorn C - Bagdad, you rise through, Bagdad, through skies blue	PD Reprint
	Baker University Hymn College		PD Reprint
	Bamboula Folk Song	N - West Indies. 1905 Piano arrangement by S. Coleridge-Taylor.	PD Reprint
	Bandolero College		PD Reprint
	Banjo Song Traditional	1818 - J Sweeney	PD Reprint
	Bantam Step Traditional	Harry Jentes	PD Reprint
	Barbara Ellen Traditional		PD Reprint
	Barchetta Instrumental, Keyboard	1896 - w. Ethelbert Nevin (1862 - 1901)	PD Reprint
	Barcus' Reel Traditional		PD Reprint
	Barn Dance Popular Song	1908 -	PD Reprint
	Barn Elms Traditional	1713 -	PD Reprint
	Barnham Down Traditional	1701 -	PD Reprint
	Baron o' Leys Traditional		PD Reprint
	Barque At Midnight Popular Song	1899 -	PD Reprint
	Bashful Swain Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bath Carnival Traditional	1777 -	PD Reprint
	Battle Of The Nations Popular Song	1915 - m. E.T. Paull	PD Reprint
	Bavarian Waltz Traditional	1849 -	PD Reprint
	Bavarian Yodel College		PD Reprint
	Be My Little Bumble Bee Traditional		PD Reprint
	Beadle of Grubb St Traditional	1728 -	PD Reprint
	Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bear Gently, So Gently, the Roughly Made Bier Traditional	1864 - Mitchell	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Bells Traditional	Wellman	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Eyes Popular Song	1909 - m. Ted Snyder, w. George Whiting, Carter DeHaven	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Isle of the Sea ~ Thomas Traditional	Thomas	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Roses Popular Song	1914 - w.m. Earl Carroll, Anatol Friedland	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Star in Heaven so Bright Traditional	Sayles	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Star of Heaven Popular Song	1905 -	PD Reprint
	Beautiful Thoughts Of You Popular Song	1910,1918 - w.m. Jerome Heller	PD Reprint
	Because ~ Bowers Traditional	1898 - w. Charles Horwitz, m. Frederick Bowers	PD Reprint
	Because I'm Married Now Popular Song	1907 - w.m. Herbert Ingraham	PD Reprint
	Because You Were An Old Sweetheart Of Mine Popular Song	1901 - m. Maurice L. Jacobs, w. Harry I. Robinson	PD Reprint
	Bedlam Traditional		PD Reprint
	Beggar Traditional		PD Reprint
	Beggar Boy Traditional	Orr	PD Reprint
	Beggar-Laddie Traditional		PD Reprint
	Beggar's Song Traditional	1890 - Richard Loveridge	PD Reprint
	Begone Dull Care Traditional	1600's - Traditional English	PD Reprint
	Behind Your Silken Veil Popular Song	1919 -	PD Reprint
	Believe Me Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Bell Bottom Trousers Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Bell da Ring Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bell Doth Toll Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bellamira Traditional	1721 -	PD Reprint
	Belle Layotte Traditional		PD Reprint
	Belle Malone Traditional	McNaughton	PD Reprint
	Belle of Avenoo A Traditional	1895 - w.m. Safford Waters	PD Reprint
	Bellisle's March 1765 Traditional	1765 -	PD Reprint
	Beloit Song College	N - Beloit College	PD Reprint
	Beloved, It Is Morn Popular Song	1896 - m. Florence Aylward, w. Emily Hickey	PD Reprint
	Ben Bolt Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bend of the Horse-Shoe Traditional	1830 -	PD Reprint
	Bend of the Little Horse-Shoe Traditional	1830 -	PD Reprint
	Benny Havens Oh College	N - West Point Academny	PD Reprint
	Bent Sae Brown Traditional		PD Reprint
	Berceuse Traditional	Goshad	PD Reprint
	Best I Get Is Much Obliged To You Popular Song	1907 - w.m. Benjamin H. Burt	PD Reprint
	Best Thing In Life Popular Song	1907 - w.m. Charles K. Harris	PD Reprint
	Betsy Ross Popular Song	1910 -	PD Reprint
	Bewick and Graham Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bicycle Built for Two	See Daisy Bell
	Big Foot Lou Traditional		PD Reprint
	Big Rock Candy Mountain Traditional	1885 - Harry Haywire McClintock N - CAUTION: We do NOT have a pre-1923 PD Sheet Music publication in our library. Recorded in 1928.	PD Reprint
	Big Sunflower Traditional	1860's - Minstrel Song	PD Reprint
	Bill Simmons Popular Song	1906 - w.m. George A. Spink	PD Reprint
	Billy Patterson Traditional	1859 -	PD Reprint
	Bird With a Broken Wing Traditional	1899 -	PD Reprint
	BL-ND And P-G Spells Blind Pig Popular Song	1908 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Junie McCree	PD Reprint
	Black and Grey Traditional	1686 -	PD Reprint
	Black Boy Alley Traditional	1744 -	PD Reprint
	Black Brigade Traditional	1862 -	PD Reprint
	Black Cat Patrol Popular Song	1996 -	PD Reprint
	Black Crook Traditional	1866 - Barras	PD Reprint
	Black Monk Traditional	Traditional Welsh	PD Reprint
	Black Nag Traditional	1670 -	PD Reprint
	Black Smoke Traditional		PD Reprint
	Blackbird's Retreat Traditional		PD Reprint
	Blacksmith Traditional	w.m. Franz Abt V - Who is that dark and swarthy man, Who there the hammer swings, So loudly hamm'ring all the day,	PD Reprint
	Blackville Society Traditional	Berenard Franklin	PD Reprint
	Blackwell Hall Traditional	1713 -	PD Reprint
	Blanche Alpen Traditional	Glover	PD Reprint
	Blancheflour and Jellyflorice Traditional		PD Reprint
	Blantyre Explosion Traditional		PD Reprint
	Blessed Guide to Peace and Light College	N - Beloit Song	PD Reprint
	Bloomingdale Waltz Traditional	1823 -	PD Reprint
	Blossom of the Honeysuckle Traditional	1830 -	PD Reprint
	Blow Ye Winds in the Morning Traditional		PD Reprint
	Blue And The Gray Popular Song	1900 - w.m. Paul Dresser	PD Reprint
	Blue Bell Popular Song	1904 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Edward Madden	PD Reprint
	Blue Bird (Bring Back My Happiness) Popular Song	1917 - m. F. Bernard Grant, w. George Graff, Jr.	PD Reprint
	Blue Eyed Mary Traditional	w.m. German Folksong V - Come, tell me, blue eyed stranger, Say, whither dost thou roam? O'er this wide world a ranger, Hast thou no friends, no home?	PD Reprint
	Blue Eyes Popular Song	1921 -	PD Reprint
	Blue Moon Traditional	1918 - Max Kortlander, Lee S. Roberts N - Fox Trot - NOT Blue Moon, I saw you standing alone	PD Reprint
	Blue Streak Traditional	1921 - Roy Bargy	PD Reprint
	Blue-eyed Mary Traditional		PD Reprint
	Blythe, blythe and merry was she Traditional		PD Reprint
	Boat Song Popular Song	1908 - m. Harriet Ware, w. Montrose J. Moses	PD Reprint
	Boatman Traditional	1650 -	PD Reprint
	Boatmen's Dance Traditional	Smith	PD Reprint
	Bobbin' Up And Down Popular Song	1913 - w.m. D.A. Esrom	PD Reprint
	Bohemian Polka Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bohunkus Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bold Nelson's Praise Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood Traditional		PD Reprint
	Boll Weevil Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bon Bon Buddy Popular Song	1907 - m. Will M. Cook, w. Alex Rogers	PD Reprint
	Bonds of Love College		PD Reprint
	Bonita Waltz Popular Song	1909 -	PD Reprint
	Bonnie College		PD Reprint
	Bonnie Annie Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonnie Boat Traditional	N - Round	PD Reprint
	Bonnie Charlie's Now Awa' Traditional	1820 -	PD Reprint
	Bonnie Doon Traditional	Burns, Traditional Scots	PD Reprint
	Bonnie Dundee College		PD Reprint
	Bonnie Dundees Traditional	Traditional Scots	PD Reprint
	Bonnie Earl o' Morray Traditional	Traditional Scots	PD Reprint
	Bonnie George Campbell Traditional	Traditional Scots	PD Reprint
	Bonnie House o' Airlie Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonnie James Campbell Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonnie Lizie Baillie Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonnie Mary of Argyle Traditional	Traditional Scots	PD Reprint
	Bonnie Strathyre Traditional	Traditional Scots	PD Reprint
	Bonny Baby Livingston Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny Bee Hom Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny Birdy Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny Earl of Murray Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny Eloise Traditional	Thomas	PD Reprint
	Bonny Hind Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny John Seton Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny Lass of Anglese Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bonny Lighter-Boy Traditional		PD Reprint
	Boo-Hoo-Hoo Popular Song	1922 -	PD Reprint
	Boom Our State Popular Song	1921 -	PD Reprint
	Boston Reel Traditional		PD Reprint
	Botany Bay Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bothwell Bridge Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bound to Go Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bounding Billows Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bounding Buck Traditional	1918 - Henry Lodge	PD Reprint
	Bow-Wow-Wow College	m. Loren Bragdon, w. W.S.C. V - When I first came down to Rutgers, having left my native plough, I was greeted by students, With a Bow-wow-wow N - Rutgers College	PD Reprint
	Bowdoin Beata College	N - Bowdoin College	PD Reprint
	Bowery Traditional	1892 -	PD Reprint
	Bowld Sojer Boy Traditional	Lover	PD Reprint
	Boy and the Mantle Traditional		PD Reprint
	Boy Guessed Right Traditional	1898 -	PD Reprint
	Boy's Best Friend is his Mother Traditional	1883 - Skelly	PD Reprint
	Boys Are Coming Home Today Popular Song	1903 - w.m. Paul Dresser	PD Reprint
	Boys In The Gall'ry For Mine Popular Song	1903 - w.m. Paul Dresser	PD Reprint
	Brave Boys are They Traditional	1861 - Henry Clay Work	PD Reprint
	Brave Mother Yale College		PD Reprint
	Bread and Roses Traditional		PD Reprint
	Break Break Break Traditional	Dempster	PD Reprint
	Break The News To Mother Popular Song	1897 - w.m. Charles K. Harris	PD Reprint
	Breakfast College		PD Reprint
	Breathings of Spring Traditional	w.m. Felicia Hemans, C.M. von Weber V - What wakest thou, Spring? Sweet voices in the wood, And reedlike echoes that have long been mute.	PD Reprint
	Breeze from Blackville Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bress old Andy Jackson Traditional	1862 -	PD Reprint
	Brick Makers Traditional	1700's -	PD Reprint
	Bridge Of Sighs Popular Song	1900 - w.m. James Thornton	PD Reprint
	Bridgwater Fair Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bright College Years College	N - Yale University	PD Reprint
	Bright Eyes Popular Song	1920 - m. Otto Motzan, M.K. Jerome, w. Harry B. Smith	PD Reprint
	Bright Eyes, Goodbye Popular Song	1905 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Harry H. Williams	PD Reprint
	Bright Stars Do Shine College		PD Reprint
	Bright Years of youth College	N - Dear Old Yale	PD Reprint
	Brighton Camp	See The Girl I Left Behind (Me)
	Brighton Camp (The Girl I Left Behind Me) Traditional	1879 - Irish Traditional V - The dames of France are fond and free, And Flemish lips are willing, And soft the maids of Italy, And Spanish eyes are thrilling C - . . To the girl I left behind me.	PD Reprint
	Brimbledon Fair Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bring Back My Bonnie To Me	See My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
	Bring Back My Daddy To Me Popular Song	1917 - m. George Meyer, w. William Tracey, Howard Johnson	PD Reprint
	Bring the Wagon Home John College		PD Reprint
	Brisk Young Bachelor Traditional		PD Reprint
	Broadway Blues Popular Song	1920 - m. Carey Morgan, w. Arthur Swanstrom	PD Reprint
	Broke Broke Broke College		PD Reprint
	Broom the Bonny Bonny Broom Traditional	1650 -	PD Reprint
	Brother John Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brother Moses Gone Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brother Tell Me of the Battle Traditional	Root	PD Reprint
	Brother-'n-Law Dan Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Brother, Guide Me Home Traditional		PD Reprint
	Broughty Wa's Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brown Adam Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brown Girl Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brown Robin Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brown Robyn's Confession Traditional		PD Reprint
	Brownie Dear College	m. Reese C. David, w. Sara C/ Davod	PD Reprint
	Bruce's Address Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bruderschaft Traditional	1821 - w. W. Muller, m. Traditional	PD Reprint
	Brunonia College	N - Brown University	PD Reprint
	Brunswick Waltz Traditional	1849 -	PD Reprint
	Bruton Town Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bubble Popular Song	1913 - m. Rudolf Friml, w. Otto Hauerbach	PD Reprint
	Buckwheat Cakes College		PD Reprint
	Budding Rose Waltz Popular Song	1912 -	PD Reprint
	Buddy Popular Song	1919 -	PD Reprint
	Buffalo Skinners Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bugle Call College	N - Round	PD Reprint
	Bugle Call Rag Ragtime, Music Hall	1916 - m. J. Hubert Blake, Carey Morgan N - Fox Trot, no lyrics. NOT famous Jazz song of 1930s.	PD Reprint
	Build a House in Paradise Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bull Dog Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bull Dog (Oh! The Bull Dog) College		PD Reprint
	Bull Dog (Way Down) College		PD Reprint
	Bull Dog and the Bull Frog College		PD Reprint
	Bully of the Town Traditional	1895 -	PD Reprint
	Bully Song Traditional	1895 -	PD Reprint
	Bumble Bee Rag Ragtime, Music Hall	1909 - Harry A. Tierney N - a.k.a. The Bumble Bee	PD Reprint
	Bunch o' Blackberries Traditional		PD Reprint
	Bundeslied Traditional	1815 - w. Ernst Moritz Arndt, m. Georg Friedrich Hanitsch	PD Reprint
	Bunker Hill ~ Law-Niles Traditional	1775 - Law, Niles	PD Reprint
	Bunker Hill ~ Tuckerman Traditional	w. James B. Taylor, m. Henry L. Tuckerman N - Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument 6/17/1843	PD Reprint
	Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane Traditional		PD Reprint
	Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick Traditional		PD Reprint
	Burghee's Hole Traditional	1728 -	PD Reprint
	Burglar Man (Old Maid's Last Hope) Traditional	1887 - E.S. Thup	PD Reprint
	Burr Grass Traditional	1868 -	PD Reprint
	Bury Fair Traditional	1698 -	PD Reprint
	Bushwick Reel Traditional		PD Reprint
	But I Dare Popular Song	1901 - m. Arthur Trevelyan, w. F. Dupree	PD Reprint
	Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker Popular Song	1917 - m. Mana-Zucca, w. Benjamin M. Kaye	PD Reprint
	Butterfly Popular Song	1914 -	PD Reprint
	Buy a Broom Waltz Traditional	Traditional	PD Reprint
	Buzzing Bumble Bees College		PD Reprint
	By the Campfire Popular Song	1919 -	PD Reprint
	By the Sad Sea Waves ~ Benedict Traditional	Benedict	PD Reprint
	By The Saskatchewan Popular Song	1911 - m. Ivan Caryll, w. C.M.S. McLellan	PD Reprint
	By The Watermelon Vine Lindy Lou Popular Song	1904 - w.m. Thomas S. Allen	PD Reprint
	Bye Lo Popular Song	1919 -	PD Reprint
	Bzt! Bzt! College		PD Reprint

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