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Songs are on this PD list if we have a pre-1927 PD sheet music publication in our library AND if anyone has asked about PD status of the song in the past 20 years.
Cabbage-Leaf Rag
Traditional
PD Reprint
Cactus Rag
Traditional
PD Reprint
Caissons Go Rolling
Patriotic
1908 - w.m. Edmund L. Gruber V - Over hill over dale we have hit the dusty trail, As our caissons go rolling along. C - For it's Hi! Hi! He! In the field artillery, Shout out your numbers loud and strong.! N - U.S. Army Official Song PD Reprint
Cake Walk in the Sky
Traditional
PD Reprint
Calico Rag
Popular Song
PD Reprint
California
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. Cliff Friend, Con Conrad V - California let me speak my mind. I've been waiting for a long long time. I've got a sneaky feeling I'll be stealing To your bright and sunny clime. C - My California, Hear your lonesome boy calling. Honest I ain't a-stalling. I want to come home. Just head me crying. PD Reprint
California Here I Come
Popular Song
1924 - w.m. Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson, Bud DeSylva P - Bombo - 1921, Broadway Musical V - When the wintry winds are blowing; And the snow is starting in to fall, Then my eyes turn westward knowing, That's the place I love the best of all. C - California, here I come. Right back where I started from. Where bowers of flowers bloom in the sun. Each morning at dawning, Birdies sing an' ev'ry thing. PD Reprint
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
Popular Song
1910 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Nellie Green met Harry Lee At a masquerade the other night C - Call me up some rainy afternoon, I'll arrange for a quiet little spoon PD Reprint
Call Of The South
Popular Song
1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin P - Music Box Revue 1925 PD Reprint
Calvary
Spiritual
V - Every time I think about Jesus, C - Calvary..... Calvary, Calvary..... Calvary.... PD Reprint
Cam' ye by Atholl
Traditional
PD Reprint
Campbells Are Comin'
Traditional
1745 - Traditional Scots PD Reprint
Campin' on de Ole Suwanee
Traditional
Lee Orean Smith PD Reprint
Camptown Races
Popular Song
1850 - Stephen Collins Foster V - De Camptown ladies sing dis song Doo-dah! doo-dah! De Camptown race-track five miles long. Oh! doo-dah day! C - Gwine to run all night! Gwine to run all day! I'll bet my money on de bobtail nag, Somebody bet on de bay. PD Reprint
Can Can Galop from Orphee Aux Enfers
Classical
1858 - m. Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) N - Infernal Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphee Aux Enfers), Act II, No. 15 PD Reprint
Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline
Popular Song
1914 - m. Caro Roma, w. William H. Gardner PD Reprint
Can't You See I'm Lonely
Popular Song
1905 - m. Harry Armstrong, w. Felix Feist PD Reprint
Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?
Popular Song
1911 - w.m. Thurland Chattaway PD Reprint
Canaday-I-O
Traditional
PD Reprint
Canadian Capers
Popular Song
1915 - w.m. Gus Chandler, Bert White, Harry Cohen PD Reprint
Cannon Ball
Ragtime, Music Hall
1905 - m. Joseph Northrup N - Two Step PD Reprint
Cannon Ball Blues
Popular Song
1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) PD Reprint
Caprice Viennois
Popular Song
m. Fritz Kreisler PD Reprint
Capricio Espagnol
Traditional
1888 - Rimsky-Korsikov PD Reprint
Captain Ginjah
Traditional
F. W. Leigh PD Reprint
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
Traditional
Pratt PD Reprint
Car-Barlick-Acid
Traditional
PD Reprint
Careless LoveSee Loveless Love
Carolina In The Morning
Popular Song
1922 - m. Walter Donaldson (1893-1947), w. Gus Kahn (1886-1941) PD Reprint
Carpet Rags
Ragtime, Music Hall
1903 - m. Raymond W. Conner N - March and Two Step PD Reprint
Carrie (Marry Harry)
Popular Song
1909 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Junie McCree PD Reprint
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
Popular Song
1878 - w.m. James A. Bland V - Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow. There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime, There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go. PD Reprint
Cascades
Traditional
1904 - Scott Joplin PD Reprint
Casey Jones
Popular Song
1909 - m. Eddie Newton, w. T. Lawrence Seibert V - Come all you rounders if you want to hear a story about a brave Engineer. Casey Jones was the Rounders name On a six eight wheeler boys he won his fame. C - Casey Jones! mounted to the cabin. Casey Jones with his orders in his hand. Casey Jones mounted to the cabin and he took his farewell trip to that Promised land. PD Reprint
Casey Would Waltz with the Strawberry BlondeSee The Band Played On
Castle Doggy
Traditional
James Reese Europe N - Fox Trot PD Reprint
Cat Came Back
Traditional
1893 PD Reprint
Cataract Rag
Traditional
PD Reprint
Cecilia
Popular Song
1925 - w. Herman Ruby, m. Dave Dreyer V - Little Miss Cecilia Green, Little over sweet sixteen, But the cutest flapper that you've every seen. C - Does your Mother know you're out Cecilia! Does she know that I'm about to steal you. PD Reprint
Champagne Charlie
Traditional
c1868 - w. George Leybourne, m. Alfred Lee PD Reprint
Champagne Rag
Traditional
Joseph Lamb PD Reprint
Chanticleer Rag
Popular Song
1910 - m. Albert Gumble, w. Edward Madden PD Reprint
Charge of The Light Brigade
Instrumental, Keyboard
1900 - m. E. T. Paull N - March PD Reprint
Charlatan
Patriotic
1897 - m. John Philip Sousa PD Reprint
Charleston
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Cecil Mack (1873-1944), James P. (Jimmy) Johnson (1894 - 1955) P - Runnin' Wild - 1923, Broadway V - Carolina, Carolina, At last they're got you on the map, With a new tune, Funny blue tune, With a peculiar snap! C - Charleston! Charleston! Made in Carolina, Some dance, Some pruacm I'll say, There's nothing finer than the Charleston, Charleston PD Reprint
Charleston Gals
Traditional
PD Reprint
Charley, My Boy
Popular Song
1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ted FioRito PD Reprint
Charmaine
Popular Song
1926 - w.m. Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack PD Reprint
Chatterbox Rag
Traditional
1910 - George Botsford PD Reprint
Chaw roast beef
Traditional
1859 PD Reprint
Cheatin' On Me
Popular Song
1925 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Lew Pollack PD Reprint
Cheer Up, Mary
Popular Song
1906 - w.m. Jack Kendis, Harry Armstrong PD Reprint
Chelsea Reach
Traditional
1665 PD Reprint
Cherie
Popular Song
1921 - m. Irbing Bibo, w. Leo Wood PD Reprint
Cherie, I Love You
Popular Song
1926 - w.m. Lillian Rosedale Goodman PD Reprint
Chester
Traditional
1778 - William Billings N - Colonial Marching Song PD Reprint
Chevy Chase
Ragtime, Music Hall
Eubie Blake PD Reprint
Chicago Breakdown
Popular Song
1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) PD Reprint
Chicago, That Toddlin' Town
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. Fred Fisher V - I got a gal, I got a pal, I got a chance, I got a dance, waiting for me. I'm goin' to make, right to the lake, There with the boys, in Illinois, I'll want to be. C - Chicago, Chicago, That todd'ling town, That todd'ling town. Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around. I love it PD Reprint
Chicken Reel
Popular Song
1910 - m. Joseph M. Daly, w. Joseph Mittenthal PD Reprint
Child In The Manger
Folk Song
m. Irish Traditional, w. Mary MacDonald V - Child in the manger! Infant of Mary; Outcast and stranger, Lord of all! Child who inherits All our transgressions, All our demerits on Him Fall! N - Morning Has Broken lyrics were published in 1931 and are NOT in the public domain. PD Reprint
Chili Bean
Popular Song
1920 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Lew Brown V - In the land of Eenie meenie minie mo, Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! not long ago Lived a girl named Chili, and the fellows loved her so C - Oh! You lean and lanky Chili Beanie eenie minie mo. You know we love you so. We love your ja da, um ta da da PD Reprint
Chime Again Beautiful Bells
Children
Sir Henry Bishop V - Chime again, chime again, beautiful bells. Now thy soft melody floats on the wind PD Reprint
Chin Chin Chinaman
Traditional
1896 PD Reprint
China Boy
Popular Song
1922 - w. Phil Boutelje, m. Dick Winfree PD Reprint
Chinatown My Chinatown
Popular Song
1910 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome V - When the town is fast asleep, And it's midnight in the sky C - Chinatown, my Chinatown, Where the lights are low PD Reprint
Chong, He Come From Hong Kong
Popular Song
1919 - w.m. Harold Weeks PD Reprint
Chop Sticks
Traditional
1877 - m. Arthur de Lulli, Pseudonym of Euphemia Allen (1861 - 1949) N - a.k.a. The Celebrated Chop Waltz published as duet and solo. This famous duet is likely among the most recognized musical works ever published. PD Reprint
Chorus Jig
Traditional
1849 PD Reprint
Christians Awake
Christmas, Holiday
1750 - m. John Wainwright, w. John Byron V - Christians, awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Savior of the world was born. Rise to adore the mystery of love Which hosts of angels chanted from above, PD Reprint
Christmas Day
Popular Song
1910 - m. Gustav Holst PD Reprint
Christmas Day in the Morning
Children
V - Dame get up and bake your pies, bake your pies, on Christmas day in the morningt PD Reprint
Christmas Tree
Children
1800s - German V - O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how faithful are thy leaves, N - German O Tannenbaum, tr. The Fir Tree PD Reprint
Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers
Popular Song
m. H. Fraser-Simson , w. A.A. Milne V - Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head, Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. PD Reprint
Chrysanthemum
Traditional
Scott Joplin PD Reprint
Cincinnati Hornpipe
Traditional
PD Reprint
Ciribiribin
Popular Song
1909 - m. Alberto Pestalozza, w. Rudolf Thaler V - When through vale and dale I'm wand'ring; Only one name follows me, And while list'ning to its rhythm To my ear 'tis melody C - Ciribiribin, a name of mystery that in my heart doth lie, Ciribiribin, It echoes constantly as days and nights roll by. PD Reprint
Clair De Lune - Suite Bergamasque
Classical
1905 - Claude Debussy N - Music Only, No Lyrics PD Reprint
Clap Yo' Hands
Popular Song
1926 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. Georgia Gershwin P - Oh, Kay! PD Reprint
Cleanin' Up in Georgia
Traditional
Harry P. Guy PD Reprint
ClementineSee Oh My Darling Clementine
Cleopha
Traditional
1902 - Scott Joplin PD Reprint
Climbing Up the Golden Stair
Traditional
1884 - Emma Booth-Tucker (1860-1903) V - O my heart is full of music and of gladness, As on wings of love and faith I upward fly. C - O, I'm climbing up the golden stair to glory N - Favorite Song of The Salvation Army. PD Reprint
Climbing Up The Ladder Of Love
Popular Song
1926 - w. Raymond Klages, m. Jesse Greer P - Earl Carroll's Vanities PD Reprint
Close Your Eyes
Popular Song
1925 - w. Larry Yoell, m. Charles Vincent PD Reprint
Clyde's Water
Traditional
PD Reprint
Coal Black Mammy
Popular Song
1921 - m. Ivy St. Helier, w. Laddie Cliff PD Reprint
Coal Black Rose
Traditional
1827 PD Reprint
Coasts of High Barbary
Traditional
PD Reprint
Coaxing the Piano
Traditional
1922 - Zez Confrey PD Reprint
Cobbler's Hornpipe
Traditional
1701 PD Reprint
Cockles and Mussels
Traditional
1750 N - a.k.a. Molly Malone PD Reprint
Cohen On The Telephone
Popular Song
1914 - w. Joe Hayman PD Reprint
Cold Icy HandSee Death's Going to Lay His Hand on Me
Cole Smoak
Traditional
PD Reprint
Colin's Cattle
Traditional
PD Reprint
Collegiate
Popular Song
1925 - w.m. Moe Jaffe, Nat Bonx PD Reprint
Colonel Bogey March
Popular Song
1916 - m. Kenneth J. Alford N - March used in 1957 Movie, Bridge on the River Kwai PD Reprint
Colorado
Popular Song
1924 - w. Walter Hirsch, m. Harold A. Dellon PD Reprint
Colored Major
Traditional
PD Reprint
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
Patriotic
1843 - m. Thomas a Becket, w. David T. Shaw V - O Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free. C - . . . When borne by the red, white, and blue N - Also possible British origin, "Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean" PD Reprint
Combination March
Ragtime, Music Hall
1896 - m. Scott Joplin (1867 - 1917) PD Reprint
Come After Breakfast, Bring 'Long Your Lunch
Popular Song
1909 - w.m. James T. Brymn, Chris Smith, Jim Burris PD Reprint
Come Along My Mandy
Popular Song
1910 - w.m. Tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence, Harry Gifford P - Jolly Bachelors - 1910, PD Reprint
Come Back to Erin
Popular Song
1866 - Claribel PD Reprint
Come Back to Sorrento
Traditional
1904 PD Reprint
Come Down, Ma Evenin' Star
Popular Song
1902 - m. John Stromberg, w. Robert B. Smith PD Reprint
Come Haste to the Wedding
Folk Song
Traditional Irish V - Come haste to the wedding, ye friends and ye neighbors, The lovers their bliss can no longer delay C - Come see rural felicity, which love and innocence ever enjoy N - a.k.a.Rural Felicity, Haste to the Wedding PD Reprint
Come Lasses and Lads
Children
Old English V - Come, lasses and lads, get leave of your dads, And away to the Maypole hie, For every fair has a sweetheart there, And the fiddler's standing by. N - a.k.a. Come Lassies and Lads PD Reprint
Come Let's Be Merry
Traditional
1727 PD Reprint
Come On Spark Plug
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Billy Rose (1899-1966), Con Conrad (1891-1938) V - The horses at the post! They're off and running neck and neck. Ev'ry one's a nervous wreck! Who's showing all that speed? What's that blanket that I see; Who else could it be. C - Come on you Spark Plug. I'm praying 'whoa! giddy-ap, giddy-ap, don't lose. Baby needs a pair of shoes.' PD Reprint
Come Out Of The Kitchen, Mary Ann
Popular Song
1917 - w.m. James Kendis, Charles Bayha V - Mary Ann was a picture fan But she worked hard all day. Washing dishes, still she had wishes To star in a photo play C - Come out of the kitchen Mary darlin', Come out of the kitchen Mary Ann. Why waste your time cooking Irish stew When Mary Pickford and Theda Barra will step aside for you. PD Reprint
Come Take A Trip In My Airship
Popular Song
1904 - m. George Evans, w. Ren Shields PD Reprint
Come Thou Almighty King
Hymn
1885 - m. F. Giardini, w. C.Wesley PD Reprint
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Hymn
1885 - Wyeth PD Reprint
Come to the Moon
Popular Song
1919 - m. George Gershwin, w. Ned Wayburn, Lou Paley V - Hello ev'rybody, I have come to take you back with me To a land of liberty C - Come to the moon, I'll lead the way to Spoonland There earthly troubles vanish like bubbles PD Reprint
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Traditional
1855 - Stephen Collins Foster V - Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming, During the happy hours away, In visions bright redeeming, The fleeting joys of day. PD Reprint
Come Ye Disconsolate
Traditional
Webbe PD Reprint
Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine
Popular Song
1910 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan PD Reprint
Comin' Thro' the Rye
Traditional
1796 - w. ed Robert Burns, m. unknown PD Reprint
Comrades, I Am Dying!
Patriotic
1864 - w. Manahan, m. Sontag PD Reprint
Concerto for Piano #2
Traditional
1901 - Rachmaninoff PD Reprint
Cooper o'Fife
Traditional
Traditional Scots PD Reprint
Copenhagen
Popular Song
1924 - w. Walter Melrose m. Charlie Davis V - Way down in Old New Orleans You will find shoulder shakin' queens And when they roll their eyes You wake up in paradise. C - Professer man won't you play Copenhagen 'cause that's one tune sure has got me runnin' wild. Nobody knows how that tune burns up my clothers So Hey Hey Hey Syncopate all night long. PD Reprint
Coronation March
Traditional
1849 - Meyerbeer PD Reprint
Cossack Love Song [Don't Forget Me]
Popular Song
1925 - w. Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Herbert Stothart, George Gershwin P - Song of the Flame PD Reprint
Cotton Bolls
Traditional
PD Reprint
Cotton Eyed Joe
Jig,Reel,Fiddle Tune
Traditional Fiddle Tune V - Hol' my fiddle an' hol' my bow, Whilst I knocks ole Cotton Eyed Joe. Whilst I knocks ole Cotton Eyed Joe. N - PD source for words ONLY. We cannot find a 1922 or earlier publication of the music. PD Reprint
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
Spiritual
V - In the valley . . . with my burden! . . . An' my Saviour! . . . C - An' I couldn't hear nobody pray. O way down yonder by myself I couldn't hear nobody pray. PD Reprint
Country Club
Traditional
1909 - Scott Joplin PD Reprint
Country Gardens
Traditional
c1728 - m. Collected by Cecil Sharp (1859 - 1924) N - English Morris Dance Tune PD Reprint
Coventry Carol
Christmas, Holiday
1500s - w.m. English Traditional Carol V - Lullay, Thou little tiny Child, By, by, lully, lullay. Lullay, Thou little tiny Child, By, by lully, lullay. PD Reprint
Covered Wagon Days
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Will Morrissey (1887-1957), Joe Burrowes P - Covered Wagon - 1923, Silent Movie V - In the days of 'forty-nine', There was no one who'd decline, The call out West where all the best of fortune seemed to shine. C - Old covered wagon days. Gold draggin' in their ways. Your deeds in history play Parts that grip the hearts of our nation. PD Reprint
Cradle Song - Brahms
Children
Johannes Brahms V - Lullaby and good night, with roses bedight, With lillies bedecked is baby's wee bed. Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blest . . . PD Reprint
Cradle Song - Weber
Children
Weber V - Sleep, my heart's darling, in slumber repose. Let the fair lid o'er those blue eyes now close; PD Reprint
Crazy Blues
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. Perry Bradford V - I can't sleep at night I can't eat a bite 'Cause the one I love He don't treat me right. It makes me feel so blue I don't know what to do. C - 'Cause my love has been refused. So now I got the Crazy Blues. PD Reprint
Crazy Bone Rag
Traditional
1913 - Charles L. Johnson PD Reprint
Creole Belles
Ragtime, Music Hall
1901 - m. J. Bodewalt Lampe N - March Two-Step PD Reprint
Crimson Banner
College
1905 - m. Charles N. Daniels N - Harvard University March PD Reprint
Crinoline Days
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. Irving Berlin PD Reprint
Cross Your Heart
Popular Song
1926 - w. Bud DeSylva, m. Lewis E. Gensler P - Queen High PD Reprint
Crown Him With Many Crowns
Hymn
m. G. J. Elvey, w. M. Bridges PD Reprint
Cry Baby Blues
Popular Song
1921 - w. Sam Lewis and Joe Young, m. George W. Meyer V - Youy're the baby I've been calling my own. Oh! me, Oh! my. You're about the meanest baby I've known. C - Cry Baby Blues. You're gonna cry baby. Cry Baby Blues just means good bye baby. PD Reprint
Cuban Moon
Popular Song
1920 - m. Joe McKiernan, w. Norman Spencer PD Reprint
Cuckolds All in a Row
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine
Popular Song
1908 - m. Karl Hoschna, w. Otto Harbach PD Reprint
Cum-Bac Rag
Traditional
PD Reprint
Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, And You!
Popular Song
1925 - w. Al Durbin, Billy Rose, m. Joseph Meyer PD Reprint
Curse of an Aching Heart
Popular Song
1913 - m. Al Piantadosi, w. Henry Fink PD Reprint
Cutty Wren
Traditional
Welsh Folk Song V - 'O Where Are You going?' says Milder to Maulder; 'O I cannot tell' says Festel to Fose; 'We're going to the woods' says John the Red Nose PD Reprint
Cyclone in Darktown
Traditional
George D. Barnard PD Reprint
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