Public Domain Music and Song List
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PD Reprints 1-3 $5, 4+ $4 |
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Taffy Was a Welshman |
V: Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house, And stole a piece of beef. |
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Take Back the Heart | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Take Back Your Gold |
D: 1897 |
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Take Joy Home | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Take Me Home |
D: or Earlier - Raymond V: .to the place where I first saw the light |
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game |
D: 1908 |
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Take My Love to Rosalie | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Take Nabandji |
V: Thata nabandji |
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Take Your Girlie To The Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home) |
D: 1919 - Edgar Leslie, Bert Kalmar Pete Wendling V: Beatrice Fairfax gives advice to anyone in love C: Take your girlie to the movies if you can't make love at home |
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Take Your Time |
D: 1907 |
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Tale of a Bumble-Bee |
D: 1901 |
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Tanguay Rag | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tapping at the Garden Gate | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Taps [Penn Military] |
D: or Earlier - Penn Military Academy V: Fading light dims the sight, And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright. From a-far drawing night, Falls the night. |
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Taps [West Point] |
D: or Earlier - West Point Military Academy V: Fades the light, And a-far. Goeth day, Cometh night, And a star Leadeth all, Speedeth all To their rest. |
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Tarantelle |
D: 1892 |
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Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay! |
D: 1891 |
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Ta-ra-Ra Boom-der-e [NOT PD COPY] |
D: 1891 |
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Tarpaulin Jacket | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tar's Farewell, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tavern in the Town | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Teasing |
D: 1904 |
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Teasing Rag |
D: 1912 |
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Technology | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Teddy Bears Picnic |
D: 1907 |
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Tell All the World, John |
V: What kind o' shoes are those you wear? C: Tell all the world, John |
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Tell Bruddah Lijah |
V: O Sinnah! Ain you tired of sinnin'? C: No harm, No harm! |
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Tell Me | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tell Me Little Gypsy |
D: 1920 |
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Tell Me, Pretty Maiden |
D: 1900 |
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Tell My Jesus 'Morning' |
D: 1867 |
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Tempest of the Heart | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Temptation Rag |
D: 1909 |
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Ten Commandments, The |
D: 1916 |
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes |
D: 1921 |
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Ten Little Indians |
V: One little, two little, three little Indians, Four little, five little, six little Indians, |
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Ten Little Niggers |
V: Ten little niggers, going out to dine, One choked his little self, and then there were nine. |
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Ten Thousand Men of Harvard | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tennessee Jubilee, A |
D: 1899 |
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Tennessee Tantalizer, A |
D: 1900 |
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Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground |
D: 1864 - Walter Kittredge V: We're tenting tonight on the old camp ground, give us a song to cheer. C: Many are the hearts that are weary tonight, wishing the war to cease. |
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Thank God For A Garden | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Thank God, I Am An American | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Thanks Be To God | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Demon Rag |
D: 1912 |
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That Hand Played Rag |
D: 1914 |
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That International Rag |
D: 1913 |
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That Madrid Rag |
D: 1912 |
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That Mezmerising Mendelssohn Tune | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Mysterious Rag |
D: 1911 |
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That Naughty Waltz | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Old Girl Of Mine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Scandalous Rag |
D: 1912 |
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That Teasin' Rag |
D: 1909 |
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That Tumble Down Shack In Athlone | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Universal Rag | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Wilson Chum of Mine | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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That Wonderful Mother of Mine |
D: 1918 |
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That's How I Need You |
D: 1912 |
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That's What's the Matter |
D: 1862 |
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That's Why They Call Me 'Shine' |
D: 1910 |
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That's-A-Plenty |
D: 1914 |
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Thee St. Stephens | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Then You'll Remember Me |
D: or Earlier - M.W. Balfe V: When other lips and other hearts Their tales of love shall tell, In language whose excess imparts |
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There Are All My Father's Children |
D: 1867 |
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There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea |
D: 1862 |
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There Grows a Bonnie Briar-bush |
D: 1905 |
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There Is a Tavern in the Town |
D: 1891 |
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There is Joy in Ev'ry Day |
V: There is joy in every day, In our work and in our play. |
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There She Stands, a Lovely Creature |
D: 1903 |
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There Was a Crooked Man |
V: There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. |
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There Was A Man in Our Town |
V: There was a main in our town, And he was wondrous wise; |
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There Was a Tree Stood in the Ground |
D: 1903 |
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There Was an Old Woman and What Do You Think ? |
V: There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; |
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There Were Ten Virgins |
V: And five of them were wise C: There were ten Virgins when de Bridegroom come |
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There Were Three Books | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There Were Three Crows | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There's Preaching Here |
V: There's preaching here C: Run, mourner, run |
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There'll Come A Time | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There's A Broken Heart for Every Light On Broadway |
D: 1915 |
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There's a College They Call Princeton | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There's a Good Time Coming |
D: 1846 |
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There's A Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl |
D: 1916 |
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There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There's a Long, Long Trail |
D: 1913 |
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There's A Long. Long Trail |
D: 1913 V: Nights are growing very lonely, Days are very long. C: There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. |
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There's a Meeting Here Tonight |
D: 1867 |
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There's A Quaker Down in Quaker Town | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There's Music in the Air | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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There's Someone More Lonesome Than You |
D: 1916 |
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They All Love Jack | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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They Didn't Believe Me |
D: 1914 |
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They Go Wild Simple Wild Over Me |
D: 1917 - Joe McCarthy Fred Fisher |
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They Led My Lord Away |
V: The Jews and Romans in - a one band C: They led my Lord away, away, away |
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They Tell Me |
D: 1895 |
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They Were All Out of Step But Jim | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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They Will Not Lend Me A Child |
V: A ba boleki nwana |
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They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii |
D: 1916 |
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The Thievish Mouse |
V: A story sad I've got to tell about a litel Mouse With bright brown eyes who used to scamper |
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Thine Eyes so Blue and Tender |
D: 1882 |
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Third Floor Back, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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This Is a Sin-Trying World |
V: O, heav'n is so high and I am so low C: O, this is a sin trying world. |
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This Is the Life |
D: 1914 |
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This Is the Trouble on the World |
D: 1867 |
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Those Evening Bells | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Those Ragtime Melodies | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out |
D: 1896 |
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Thou Art My Own Love | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Thou Art the Queen of My Song |
D: 1859 |
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Thousand Leagues Away, A | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Blind Mice |
V: Three blind mice, See how they run! They all ran after the farmer's wife; |
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Three Cheers for K.S.U. | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Cheers for T.A. and P.U. | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Children |
V: Three children sliding on the ice, All on a summer's day. As it fell out, they all fell itn, |
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Three Children Sliding |
V: Three children sliding on the ice, All on a summer's day |
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The Three Crows [Children] |
V: Three crows there were once who sat on a stone, Fal la la la la la. But two flew away, |
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The Three Crows [College] |
V: There were three crows sat on a tree, And they were black as crows could be |
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Three Fishers Went Sailing | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Three Glasses | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Little Darkies | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Three Little Kittens [1] |
V: Once three little kittens, they lost their mittens, And they began to cry, |
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The Three Little Kittens [2] |
V: There were three little kittens Put on their mittens To eat some Christmas pie. Mew, Mew, Mew. |
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Three Little Mice |
V: Three little mice crept out to see What they could find to have for tea |
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Three Little Pigs |
V: A jolly old sow once lived in a sty, And three little piggies had she, And she waddled about saying Umph Umph Umph |
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Three Little Pigs, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three O'Clock In The Morning | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Sailor Boys, The | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Three Sons, The |
D: 1916 |
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Thriller!, The [Rag] |
D: 1909 |
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Through All the World | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Through the Village |
D: 0 |
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Throw Him Down, McCloskey |
D: 1890 |
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Throw Me A Rose |
D: 1915,1916 - P.G. Wodehouse, Herbert Reynolds Emmerich Kalman |
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The Thunderer |
D: 1889 - John Philip Sousa |
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Thunderer, The |
D: 1889 |
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Thy Cheek Is o' the Rose's Hue |
D: 1905 |
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Tickle The Ivories | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tickled to Death |
D: 1899 |
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The Tiger Lily | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tiger Rag |
D: 1917 |
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Til We Meet Again |
D: 1918 - Raymond B. Egan Richard A. Whiting |
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Till the Clouds Roll By |
D: 1917 |
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Till We Meet Again |
D: 1918 |
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Tip-Top Tipperary Mary | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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'Tis All That I Can Say |
D: or Earlier - w. Tom Hood, m. Hope Temple V: I love thee.'tis all that I can say |
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'Tis But a Faded Flower | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tis Me, O Lord - No Date |
V: 'Tis me, O Lord. Standin' in need of prayer |
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'Tis Midnight Hour | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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'Tis the Last Rose of Summer |
D: 0 |
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Tishomingo Blues |
D: 1917 |
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Titina | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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To Baby Land |
V: How many miles to baby land? Anyone can tell, Up one flight, to your right; please to ring the bell. |
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To Bed To Bed Say Sleepy Head |
V: To bed, to bed, says Sleepy Head; let's stay a while says Slow. |
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To Have, To Hold, To Love | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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To Market To Market |
V: To market, to market, to buy a fat pig; Home again, home again, jiggety jig. |
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To Maxim's Then I go |
D: 1908 |
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To My Little Flower |
V: Someone gave to me a flower, And I placed it in a bower, Where the birdies come and sing, Sitting round it in a ring. |
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To Princeton | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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To the Bravest | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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To the Corps That Has No Equal | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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To the Land of My Own Romance |
D: 1911 |
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To The Rising Sun | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Toast to Harvard | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Toast to Lehigh | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Toast to Wisconsin | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Toboggan Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Today Is Monday | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tom and Jerry Rag |
D: 1917 |
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Tom Bowling | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tom The Piper's Son |
V: Tom, Tom, the piper's son, stole a pig, and away he run ! The pig was eat, And Tom was beat, Which sent him howling down the street. |
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Tombigbee River | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tom-Big-Bee River | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tommy and His Gun | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tomorrow | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Too Late! Too Late! | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Too Much Raspberry |
D: 1916 |
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Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral |
D: 1913 |
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Toot, Toot, Tootsie |
D: 1922 - Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo |
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Toots |
D: 1915 |
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A Topical Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Town Talk |
D: 1917 |
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Toyland |
D: 1903 |
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Trackin' 'Em Down | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Trail of the Lonesome Pine |
D: 1913 - Ballard MacDonald Harry Carroll |
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Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! |
D: 1864 |
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Travel On |
D: 1867 |
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Tread, Tread the Green Grass, Star, Star, Star |
D: 1903 |
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The Tree |
V: The tree;s early leafbuds were bursting their brown, Shall I taken them away? Said the Frost sweeping down. |
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Tree in the Wood, The |
D: 1916 |
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Trees They Do Grow High, The |
D: 1916 |
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Tres Moutarde |
D: 1911 |
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Triangle Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Tribute to Wesleyan | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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The Triple Cheer | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Troika Rushing |
D: 0 |
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Trombone Johnsen |
D: 1902 |
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Troubadour Rag |
D: 1919 |
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Troubadour Song | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Trouble |
D: 1914 |
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Trouble of the World, The |
D: 1867 |
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Troubled In Mind |
V: In the morning I am troubled C: Now I'm troubled in mind |
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Trouville Canter |
D: 1914 |
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True Lover's Farewell, The |
D: 1916 |
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Trust in the Lord |
D: or Earlier - Frederick M. Lynk, K.. Malar V: Trust, my dear soul, alway, trust in the Lord, He has never broken His own pledged word. |
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Trusting I Call |
D: 1891 |
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Try Try Again |
V: Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try try again. |
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Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Tucky Home | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Turkey in the Straw |
D: 1919 |
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Turn Back Pharaoh's Army |
V: Gwine to write to Massa Jesus, To send some valiant soldiers. C: To turn back Pharoah's army, Hallelu! |
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Turn Back Pharoah's Army | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Turn Sinner, Turn O |
D: 1867 |
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Turn Ye to Me |
D: 1905 |
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Twelfth Street Rag - Song |
D: 1919 - James S. Sumner Euday L. Bowman V: In a certain city where the girls are cute and pretty C: First you slide and then you glide, then shimmie for a while |
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Twelve Days of Christmas, The |
D: 1916 |
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Twenty Years Ago | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Twilight | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Twilight Dreams |
D: 1911 |
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Twinking Stars are Laughing, Love | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star |
V: Twinkle, twinkle, little star; How I wonder what you are. |
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Two Hands | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Two Little Flies | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Two Little Girls in Blue |
D: 1892 |
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Two Little Love Bees | Collection CD Sheet Recording |
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Two Magicians, The |
D: 1916 |
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The Two Roses |
D: or Earlier - Werner V: On a bank two roses fair, Wet with morning showers C: Tell me roses, truly tell, If my fair one loves me well. |
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