Public Domain Music and Song List
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Cabbage-Leaf Rag |
D: 1909 |
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Cactus Rag |
D: 1916 |
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Cagaran Gaolach |
D: 1905 |
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Caisson Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Caissons Go Rolling Along | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cake Walk in the Sky, The |
D: 1899 |
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Calendar Song |
V: Sixty seconds make a minute, Something sure you can learn in it; |
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Calico Rag | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Calinda |
D: 1867 |
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Call Me Back, Pal O' Mine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Call Me Pet Names | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Calla Lilly Rag |
D: 1907 |
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Calvery |
V: Every time I think about Jesus, C: Calvery..... Calvery, Calvery..... Calvery.... |
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Cam' ye by Atholl |
D: 1905 |
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Came Raise the Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Campbells Are Comin', The |
D: 1905 |
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Campbells are Coming, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Campin' on de Ole Suwanee |
D: 1899 |
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Campmeeting Band | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Camptown Races |
D: 1850 |
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Campus Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Can I Go, Dearest Mother? |
D: 1862 |
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Can't You Live Humble |
V: Lightning flashes, Thunker rolls C: Can't you live humble? |
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Canadian Capers |
D: 1915 |
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Candy Jag | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Candy, The |
D: 1909 |
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Cannon Ball, The |
D: 1905 |
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Canoeing Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' (Caroline) |
D: 1914 |
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A Capital Ship | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Caprice Bohemia |
D: 1897 |
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Caprice Viennois |
D: 1913 |
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Captain Jinks | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Car-Barlick-Acid |
D: 1903 |
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Carleton Spelling Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Carol Children Carol |
D: or Earlier - Old English V: Carol, children, carol, carol joyfully. Carol the good tidings, O carol merrily. |
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Carolina | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Carolina Fox Trot |
D: 1914 |
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Carolina in the Morning |
D: 1922 |
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Caroline |
D: 1867 |
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The Carpenter |
V: Hey hammer, Ho hammer, hear the steady blow. 'Tis the jolly carpenter, Who's pounding down below. |
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Carpet Rags | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Carrier Dove | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Carry Me Back to Old Virginny |
D: 1878 |
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Carus Breeze, The |
D: 1914 |
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Carve dat Possum | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Cascades |
D: 1904 |
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Casey Jones |
D: 1909 |
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Castanets are Sounding | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Castle Doggy, The |
D: 1915 |
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The Cat Came Back |
D: 1893 |
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Cataract Rag |
D: 1914 |
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The Centipede and the Frog | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Champagne Charlie |
D: 1868 |
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Champagne Rag |
D: 910 |
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Champlain | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chant | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chant of the Short Ags | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chanticleer | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chantique de Noel | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Chapel | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Charlatan |
D: 1898 - John Philip Sousa |
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Charleston Gals |
D: 1867 |
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Charley Over the Water |
V: Over the water and over the lea, And over the water to Charley; |
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Charlie Over the Water [Can't Catch Me] |
D: 1903 |
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Chatterbox Rag |
D: 1910 |
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Checkerboard, The |
D: 1914 |
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Cheer for the Purple | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Cheer We Love | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cherries Are Ripe |
V: Cherries are ripe. Babies are too young to choose; |
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Cherries Ripe |
V: Cherries ripe. Who will buy my cherries ripe. Ripe and rosy cherries. |
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Cherry in the Glass, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chevy Chase, The |
D: 1914 |
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Cheyenne |
D: 1905 |
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Chicago That Toddling Town | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chicken Chowder |
D: 1905 |
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Chicken Reel |
D: 1910 |
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The Child and the Star |
V: Little star that shines so bright, Come and peep at me tonight, For I often watch for you |
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Children Do Linger |
D: 1867 |
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Children of the Battle Field, The |
D: 1864 |
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The Children's Angel |
V: In ev'ry land an agel, Goes watching ev'ry where. No one of us may see him and yet we know he's there |
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Children's Hosanna |
D: or Earlier - George J. Webb V: And when his salvation bringing, To Zion on Jesus came |
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Child's Dreamland |
V: When the moon is beaming, I'er the waters gleaming, Little ones are dreaming, |
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Child's Hymn |
V: Let children that would fear the Lord, Hear what their teacher say; With rev'rence hear their parent's words, And with delight obey. |
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Chime Again Beautiful Bells |
D: or Earlier - Sir Henry Bishop V: Chime again, chime again, beautiful bells. Now thy soft melody floats on the wind |
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Chimes |
D: 1911 |
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Chimes of Trinity, The |
D: 1895 |
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Chinatown My Chinatown |
D: 1910 - William Jerome Jean Schwartz V: When the town is fast asleep, And it's midnight in the sky C: Chinatown, my Chinatown, Where the lights are low |
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Chinatown, My Chinatown |
D: 1910 |
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Chinese Baby-Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chinese Lullaby |
V: Snail, snail, come out and be fed, Put out your horns and then your head |
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Ching-a-ling | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Chong | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Christians Awake | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Christians Hold Up Your Heads |
V: Christians hold up your heads C: Got religion all round the world, O |
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The Christians' Hymn Of The Crusifixion |
V: O repent, sinner, C: Hammering |
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A Christmas Carol |
D: or Earlier - Alfred S. Gaty V: Kind Christmas comes but once a year, Ring merrily, bells, ding dong! And with it brings right hearty cheed, Ring merrily bells, ding dong! |
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Christmas Chimes |
D: or Earlier - Brinley Richards V: What bells are those, so soft and clear, That fall melodious on my ear? |
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Christmas Day |
D: 1910 |
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Christmas Day in the Morning |
V: Dame get up and bake your pies, bake your pies, on Christmas day in the morningt |
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Christmas Pastorale |
D: 1921 |
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Christmas Song |
V: Ev'ry yeat there comes to us the dear Christchild, Once to earth again With way so meek and mild. |
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The Christmas Tree |
D: or Earlier - German V: O Christmas tree, O Chritsmas tree, how faithful are they leaves, |
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Christmas Voices |
V: Voices of the belfry height, pealing forth your merry chimes, Sound upon the winter nights, Melodies of Christmas time. |
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Chrysanthemum, The |
D: 1904 |
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The Church Of God |
V: Oh, look up yander what I see C: De church of God. . . . . . dat sounds so sweet |
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Cielito Lindo |
D: ND |
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Cielito Lindo - Beautiful Heaven |
D: ND |
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City Troop, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cleanin' Up in Georgia |
D: 1899 |
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Clear the Way of U.S.C. | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Clementine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cleopha |
D: 1902 |
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Cliff on the Volga, The |
D: 0 |
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Climate, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Climbers Rag, The |
D: 1911 |
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Clime Beneath Whose Genial Sun | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Clouds Have Risen Over the City |
D: 0 |
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Clover Club |
D: 1918 |
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Clover Leaf | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Clovertime | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Coasts of High Barbary, The |
D: 1916 |
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Coax Me |
D: 1904 |
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Co-Ca-Che-Lunk | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cock Robin | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cock Robin and Jenny Wren |
V: Twas in a merry time, When Jenny Wren was youn, So neatly as she danc'd, And so sweetly as she sung. |
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The Co-Ed That Vanquishes Me | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Co-Ed's Chant | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Co-Education | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Coffin To Bind Me |
V: De coffin, de coffin, to bind me down |
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Cold Icy Hand |
V: O sinner! Sinner! you better pray! C: Cryin', O Lord |
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Cole Smoak |
D: 1906 |
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Colin's Cattle |
D: 1905 |
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Colleen O'Mine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The College Bell | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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College Days | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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College Days of OId | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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A College Medley | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The College on the Hill | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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A College Proverb | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The College Pump | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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College Ties Can Ne'er Be Broken | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Collegium | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Colonel Boogie |
D: 1916 |
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Colonial Glide |
D: 1914 |
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Colonial Guards | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Colorado College Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Colored Major, The |
D: 1900 |
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Columbia, Gem of the Ocean | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Combination March |
D: 1896 |
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Come After Breakfast |
D: 1909 |
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Come All You Worthy Christian Men |
D: 1916 |
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Come Along |
C: Come along, come along |
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Come Along, Moses |
D: 1867 |
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Come Back Sweet May |
V: Come back sweet May, And bid the flowrets bloom. The birds sing on the spray |
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Come Back to Erin |
D: 1883 - Claribel |
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Come Down |
V: Jesus Christ, He died for me... C: Come down....Come, my Lord! |
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Come Down, Sinners |
V: Come down, come down, come down , sinner C: Come down, sinner, yo' none too late |
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Come Fill Your Glasses up | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come Go With Me |
D: 1867 |
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Come Here, Lord! |
C: Come here Lord. Come here Lord. |
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Come Home, Father | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come Lassies and Lads |
D: or Earlier - Old English V: Come, lasses and lads, get leave of your dads, And away to the Maypole hie |
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Come Let Us Sing | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come Neighbors, the Moon Is Up [Frog Pond] |
D: 1903 |
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Come Rally Tonight | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come Seniors Come | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come Take a Trip in My Air-Ship |
D: 1904 |
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Come Thou, Almighty King | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming |
D: 1855 |
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Come with Thy Lute |
D: or Earlier - German Folksong V: Come, with they lute, to the fountain, Sing me a song of the mountain; Sing of the happy and free, |
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Come Ye Back to Old Grinnell | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come, All Ye Faithful | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come, All Ye Young Men, in Your Evil Ways |
D: 1903 |
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Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine |
D: 1910 |
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Come, O Come with Me | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come, Where my Love Lies Dreaming | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come, Ye Disconsolate | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Come,. Thou Almighty King | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Comic: Rig-A-Jig, Noah's Ark, Three Crows |
D: ND ~1914 |
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Comin' Thro' the Rye |
D: 1905 |
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A Commencement Hymn | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Commencement Ode | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Comrades | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Comrades, I Am Dying! |
D: 1864 |
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Confort is Heaven |
V: Jerusalum my happy home C: There's a comfort in heaven |
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Congress Hall |
D: 1901 - John Philip Sousa |
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Constantinople | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Constantly |
D: 1910 |
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Continued in Our Next | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Coon Band Contest, A |
D: 1899 |
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Coon Hollow Capers |
D: 1899 |
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Coon Serenade, A |
D: 1903 |
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Cooper's Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cornell | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Corps | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cotton Bolls |
D: 1901 |
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Cotton Patch, A |
D: 1902 |
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Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray |
V: An' I couldn't hear nobldy pray |
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Country Club |
D: 1909 |
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The Cow |
V: Thank you pretty cow, that made the pleasant milk to soak my bread |
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The Cow with a Brindle Tail | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Crabfish, The |
D: 1916 |
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Cradle Hymn |
D: or Earlier - J. J. Rousseau V: Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed. |
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Cradle Rock |
D: 1916 |
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Cradle Song [Swedish] |
D: or Earlier - Swedish V: Light and rosy be thy slumbers, Rock'd upon they mother's breast. |
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Cradle Song [Brahms] |
D: or Earlier - m. Johannes Brahms V: Lullaby and good night, with roses bedight, With lillies bedecked is baby's wee bed NOTE: See Lullaby - Brahms |
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Cradle Song [Sleep Baby Sleep] |
V: Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father guards the sheep, Thy mother shakes the dreamland tree, And from it fall sweet dreams for thee C: Sleep, baby, sleep! |
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Cradle Song [Weber] |
D: or Earlier - Weber V: Sleep, my heart's darling, in slumber repose. Let the fair lid o'er those blue eyes now close; |
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Cradle Song [Wellesley College] |
D: or Earlier - w. J.G. Holland, m. Clara Hovey Raymond V: Rockaby, lullaby, bees in the clover, Crooning so drowsily and crying so low NOTE: See Lullaby [Wellesley College] |
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Crambambuli | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Crazy Blues |
D: 1920 |
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Crazy Bone Rag |
D: 1913 |
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Creole Belles |
D: 1900 |
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Crew Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Crimson Triumph | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Crow Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Crown of Love, The |
D: ND (1899) |
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Crown'd Him Lord of All |
V: Am I a soldier of the cross C: We will crown Him Lord of All |
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Cruel Mother, The |
D: 1916 |
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Cruel Papa! |
D: 1914 |
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Cry Baby Blues | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Crystal Spring, The |
D: 1916 |
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Cubanola Glide, The |
D: 1909 |
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The Cuckoo Yodel | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Cuckoo! |
V: Cuckoo ! Cuckoo! Pretty bird say; Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Prithee, so gay? |
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Cuckoo, The |
D: 1916 |
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Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine |
D: 1908 |
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Cum-Bac Rag |
D: 1911 |
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Cupid's Garden | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Curly Locks |
V: Curly locks ! Wilt thou be mine? Thou shalt not wash dishes nor yet feed the swine; |
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The Curse of an Aching Heart |
D: 1913 |
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Cyclone in Darktown, A |
D: 1910 |
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