Public Domain Music and Song List
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PD Reprints 1-3 $5, 4+ $4 |
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O (Oh!) |
D: 1919 |
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O Brother, Don't Get Weary |
D: 1867 |
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O Come All Ye Faithful | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Come Come Away |
D: or Earlier - W.E. Hickson V: On come, come away from labor now reposing. Let busy care awhile forbear, Oh, come, come away |
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O Come You from the Battle-Field? |
D: 1864 |
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O Daniel |
D: 1867 |
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O Dear Loved Maine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Dear! What Can the Matter Be? | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Dry Those Tears! |
D: 1901 |
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O Give Me a home by the Sea | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Holy Night |
D: 1902 |
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O Hush Thee, My Baby |
V: Oh, hust thee , my baby, thy sire was a knight, They mother a lady, both lovely and bright. |
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O I'm a Good Old Rebel |
D: 0 |
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O Loving Heart, Trust On | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Mary Don't You Weep | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn. |
V: Some of these mornings bright and fair C: O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn |
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O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn |
V: Some of these mornings bright and fair, Take my wings and cleave the air C: O Mary, don't you weep, don't your mourn, . . Pharoah's army got drownded, O Mary don't you weep. |
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O Music | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O My Darling Clementine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O No John | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O No. John! |
D: 1916 |
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O Paradise | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Pendry You Are Such a Fool | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Perfect Love | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Peter Go Ring-a Dem Bells |
V: O Peter go ring-a dem bells |
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O Rocks Don't Fall on Me |
V: Look over yonder on Jerico's wall C: O rocks don't fall on me |
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O Sally, My Dear |
D: 1916 |
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O Shout Away |
D: 1867 |
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O Sing God's Praise in Winter Too |
V: O sing God's praise in winter, too, He is so good and kind |
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O' Sole Mio | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Those Blue Eyes |
D: or Earlier - Russian Song V: The post house lamp has died away, And in the fire expir'd the light, Strange visions o'er my fancy play |
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O Thou Joyful Day |
D: or Earlier - B.M. Smucker V: O Thou Joyful day, O thou blessed day, Holy, peaceful Christmas tide ! |
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O Waly, Waly |
D: 1916 |
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O We Are Going to Wear A Crown |
V: O we are going to wear a crown C: Away over Jordon with my Blessed Jesus |
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O Weary Feet | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O Ye Tears | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O, Come, Come Away | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O, Lamb ! Beautiful Lamb ! |
V: Down on my knees when the light passed by, C: O, Lamb, beautiful Lamb! |
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O, My Little Soul's Going to Shine |
V: O my little soul's going to shine |
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O, Nobody Knows Who I Am |
V: Want to go to heaven C: O, no body knows a who I am |
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Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow |
V: Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow, Can you or I or any one know, How oats peas, beans, and barley grow? |
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Oats, Pease, Beans, and Barley Grows |
D: 1903 |
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Ocean Burial, The |
D: 1850 |
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Oceana Roll |
D: 1911 |
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October | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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October Song |
V: In the sad month of October, baby toddles up and down, Red cheeks shining 'mid the dead leaves, Such a glow if red and brown |
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Odd Fellows' Hall | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Ode to Denison | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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O'er the Crossing |
D: 1867 |
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Oft in the Stilly Night | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee!--You're the Only Girl For Me |
D: 1919 |
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Oh De Hebben' Is Shinin' |
V: Oh, Fare-you-well, friends, I'm gwine to tell you all C: Oh, de hebben is shinin', shinin', Lord |
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Oh Dem Golden Slippers | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Den My Little Soul's Gwine To Shine |
V: I'm gwine to jine the great 'sociation C: Dem my little soul's gwine to shine, shine |
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Oh Freedom |
V: Oh, freedom! Oh, Freedom! Oh, freedom over me |
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Oh Frenchy | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Give Way Jordan |
C: Oh, give way Jordan, give way Jordan |
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Oh Helen! | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Jerusalem |
V: Mind my sister, how you walk on de cross C: Oh Jerusalem! Oh, my Lord |
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Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! |
D: 1917 |
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Oh Me! Oh My! | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Miss, I'll Give You a Paper of Pins |
D: 1903 |
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Oh My Darling Clementine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh No We'll Never | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Oregon Oh Oregon | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Promise Me |
D: 1889 |
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Oh Sinner You'd Better Get Ready |
V: Oh, sinner man, you had better pray C: Oh, sinner, you better get ready, |
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Oh Syracuse | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh Wasn't That A Wide Riber |
V: Oh you got Jesus, hold him fast C: Oh, wasn't that I wild riber |
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Oh Well We'll Hoop Her Up For . . . | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh When I Git T' Heaven |
V: Oh, when I git t' Heaven, gwine t' sit right down C: Father Abraham, sittin' down side of de Holy Lamb |
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Oh Yes |
V: Oh, yes, Oh, yes, I tell you brethren a mortal fac' C: Oh, wait till I put on my robe |
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Oh Yes Yonder Comes My Lord |
V: Oh, yes, yonder comes my Lord |
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Oh! Don't You Remember Sweet Alice | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning |
D: 1918 |
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Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo |
D: 1916 |
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Oh! Susanna |
D: 1848 |
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Oh! What a Pal was Mary |
D: 1919 |
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Oh! Willie, We Have Miss'd You | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh! You Circus Day |
D: 1912 - Edith Maida Lessing, Jimmie V. Monaco Edith Maida Lessing, Jimmie V. Monaco |
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Oh! You Devil |
D: 1909 |
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Oh, Charlie Is My Darling |
D: 1905 |
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Oh, Dear ! What Can The Matter Be ? |
V: O Dear ! What can the matter be? Johnny's so long at the fair. |
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Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be? |
V: Oh dear! What can the matter be? Dear, Dear, what can the matter be? C: . . . Blue ribbons to tie up my bonnie brown hair. |
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Oh, Dem Golden Slippers! |
D: 1879 |
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Oh, Didn't It Rain |
V: Forty days and forty night when de rain kept a-fallin; |
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Oh, Didn't It Rain | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh, He Raise a Poor Lazarus | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh, Hush Thee, My Baby | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Oh, Love Will Venture In |
D: 1905 |
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Oh, My Darling Clementine |
D: 1884 |
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Oh, My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose |
D: 1905 |
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Oh, Why I Left I My Hame? |
D: 1905 |
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Oh, You Beautiful Doll |
D: 1911 |
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Oh, You Dear Little Night |
D: 0 |
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Ohio | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Allegheny | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Ark a Moverin', The |
V: See that sister dressed so fine? She ain't got Jesus in-a her mind. C: O, the old ark's a-movering, a-movering . . . And I'm going home. |
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The Old Ark A-turnin' |
V: Jes' wait a little while, I'm gwine to tell ye 'bout de ole ark C: De' ole ark a-movin', de ole ark a-movin' |
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The Old Ark's A-Movering |
V: See that sister dressed fo fine C: The old ark she reeled, the old ark she rocdked |
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Old Arm Chair, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Black Joe |
D: 1860 |
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Old Brick Row | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Butler | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Old Cabin Home | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Cabin Home, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Cathedral Chimes, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old College Chum | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Old College Clock in the Tower | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old College Days | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Dan Tucker |
D: 1843 |
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Old Dirge from the Isle of Mull |
D: 1905 |
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Old Dog Tray |
D: 1853 |
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Old Fashioned Garden | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Folks at Home |
D: 1851 V: Way down upon the Swanee ribber, Far, far away C: All de world am sand and dreary' Eb'ry whar I roam |
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Old Folks at Home, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Gaelic Lullaby |
V: Hush! The waves are rolling in, White with foam; Father toils amid the din |
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Old Girl of Mine |
D: 1918 |
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Old Grey Mare, The |
D: 1915 |
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Old Harvard | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Hundred |
D: or Earlier - L. Bourgeois V: All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice |
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Old King Cole |
V: Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; |
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The Old Man Clothed in Leather |
V: One misty, moisty morning, When cloudy was the weather, O there I met an old man, Clothed all in leather. |
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Old Man Moses | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Mother Toad |
V: Over the meadow, In the sand, in the sund, Lived an old mother toad, And her little toadie one. |
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Old Nassau | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Old Oaken Bucket |
V: How dear to my heart are the scense of my childhood, When fond recollections present them to view. |
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Old Oaken Bucket, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Pal |
D: 1920 |
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Old Rosin the Beau |
D: 1838 |
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Old Rosin, The Beau | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Rugged Cross, The |
D: 1913 |
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Old Santa Claus |
V: Old Santa Claus sat all alone, his pipe upon is knee. C: Santa Claus who fears no danger, Overall all the world a ranger, Ev'rywhere a welcome stranger |
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The Old School Home | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Sexton, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Shady | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Ship of Zion, The |
D: 1867 |
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Old Ship Zion, The |
V: Come along, come along, and let's go home. O glory hallelujah! C: Tis the old ship of Zion, Hallelujah. |
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Old Tipperary | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Old Uncle Ned |
D: 1848 |
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Old Virginia Rag |
D: 1907 |
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The Old Woman in a Basket |
V: There was an old woman toseed up in a basket Seventy times as high as the moon; |
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Old Zip Coon | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Ole Miss Rag |
D: 1916 |
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Ole Ship Of Zion |
V: Come along, come along, and let's go home C: 'Tis the old ship of Zion, Hallelujah. |
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Ole Virginny Barbecue |
D: 1899 |
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Oloba | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On a Sunday Afternoon |
D: 1902 |
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On Brave Old Army Team | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On Easy Street |
D: 1902 |
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On Hudson's Shore | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On Miami Short |
D: 1919 - William Le Baron Victor Jacobi |
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On Mobile Bay | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On O Thou Soul ! | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On the Banks of the Old Raritan | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away |
D: 1897 |
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On the Beach at Waikiki |
D: 1915 - G.H. Stover Henry Kailiami |
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On the Chapel Steps | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On the Pike |
D: 1897 - w. Elliot Field, m. Walter Howe Jones V: One day a Fresh a-bursting with his knowledge, A strolling met a girl from well some college |
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On the Pike [Rag] |
D: 1904 - James Scott |
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On the Road to Mandalay |
D: 1907 |
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On the Road to Monterey |
D: 1908 |
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On to Glory |
D: 1867 |
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On to Victory | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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On Wisconsin |
D: 1909 - Cark Beck W.T. Purdy C: On Wisonsin ! Plunge right through that line! Run the ball clear 'round Chicago |
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Once I Saw a Rose |
V: Once I saw a seet brier rose, All so frealy blooming, Bathed with dew and blushing fair, Gently waved by balmy air. |
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One Day | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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One Fine Day - Madame Butterfly | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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One Man Shall Mow My Meadow |
D: 1916 |
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One o' Them Things |
D: 1904 |
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One Sweetly Solemn Thought | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Only A Ribbon |
D: 1897 |
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Onward Christian Soldiers |
D: or Earlier - Sir Arthur Sullivan V: Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before C: With the cross of Jesus going on before. |
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Onward to the Goal | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Onward, Christian Soldiers | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Open the Gates of the Temple | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Open Thy Lattice Love |
D: 1844 |
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Operatic Rag |
D: 1914 |
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Ophelia Rag |
D: 1910 |
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The Orange and Black | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Orange and Black - Albany | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Orange and Black - Princeton | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Orange and the Black | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Orange Blossoms | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Original Chicago Blues, The |
D: 1915 |
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Original Rags |
D: 1899 |
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Our Baby |
D: or Earlier - French Lullaby V: Cheeks of rose, tiny toes, Has out little baby; Eyes of blue, fingers too, Cunning all as may be. |
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Our Boys Will Shine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our College Cheer | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our College Home | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our College Upper Ten | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our Director | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our Flag is There |
V: Our flag is there, We'll greet it with three loud huzzas. Our flag is there, Behold the glorious stripes and stars! |
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Our Honored Bates | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our Land Oh Lord |
D: or Earlier - Michael Haydn V: Our land, O Lord, with song of praise, Shall in they strength rejoice |
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Our Native Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Our Team By Thunder | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Out on the Deep | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Out Where the West Begins | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Outlandish Knight, The |
D: 1916 |
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Over the Banister | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Over the Garden Wall | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Over the Hills and Far Away |
V: Tom he was a piper's son, He learnt to play when he was young. |
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Over the Hills To Mary | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Over the Stars There Is Rest |
V: Over the stars there is rest! Suffer in patience confiding, Life with its trial and chiding |
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Over the Summer Sea |
D: or Earlier - G. Verdi V: Over the summer sea, with lilghts gay and free. Join'd by glad minstrelsy, gaily we're foming. |
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Over the Waves (Sobre las Olas) |
D: 1897 |
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Over There |
D: 1917 |
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The Owl and the Pussy Cat | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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