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IMPORTANT: This list is based on USA Copyright Law and is intended only as a help in researching public domain music. This list is NOT sufficient documentation that music is in the Public Domain. To prove PD status in the USA, you MUST find a published copy of the song with a copyright date of 1926 or earlier. Our PD Sheet Music Reprints are exact reprints of books and sheet music published in 1926 or earlier and include music, lyrics, and complete original copyright information. Some of these songs may not be PD in countries other than the USA.

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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.
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll
Popular Song
1919 - w.m. Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams V - Lil' Willie Green from New Orleans a greedy boy was he, For he always wanted a lot a kids, Just to keep him company C - I ain't gonna give nobody none o' this jelly roll, I wouldn't give you piece o' cake to save your soul. My mama told me today When she went away To be a good boy . . . PD Reprint
I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)
Popular Song
m. Spencer Williams, Dave Peyton, w. Roger Graham V - Say, had a sweetheart once I loved, And I was happy as could be; But now he's gone and left me here For someone else, you see. C - I Ain't Got Nobody, And Nobody Cares for Me. That's why I'm sad and lonely. Say, won't you take a chance with me? N - Early publications credited words David Young, music Charles Wakefield which is believed to be in error. PD Reprint
I Am A Poor Wayfaring StrangerSee Pilgrim's Song
I Am the Captain of the Pinafore
Traditional
1878 - w. Gilbert, m. Sullivan PD Reprint
I Belong To Glasgow
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Will Fyffe V - I've been wi' a few o' ma cronies, One or two pals o' ma ain. We went in a hotel, where we did very well, And then we came out once again. C - I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow town! But what's the matter wi' Gasgow? For it's going round and round. PD Reprint
I Can't Be True So Far Away
College
1909 - m. Joseph E. Howard, w. Will M. Hough, Frank R. Adams P - Prince Of To-Night - 1909, V - Ev'ry dream sentimental night Makes me long for you C - I can't be awful true, dear, When you're so far away, I try to think of you dear, Think of you night and day. PD Reprint
I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do
Popular Song
1900 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb V - On a summer's day in the month of May, a story sweet was toid, By a lonesome lad, With a heart grown sad, To a lass with a heart grown cold. C - I can't tell why I love you, but I do-oo-oo. This world is full of maids the same as you-oo-oo But something I can't tell, Seems to hold me in its spell . . . PD Reprint
I Cannot Sing the Old Songs
Traditional
Claribel PD Reprint
I Cried For You
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Arthur Free, Gus Anaheim, Abe Lyman V - I remember other days how I used to weep Over things yhou said to me I couldn't even sleep. You forgot your promises ev'ry single vow. All you did was laugh at me but things are diff'rent now. C - I cried for you, Now it's your turn to cry over me. Ev'ry road has a turning That's one thing you're learning, I cried for you, What a fool I used to be. PD Reprint
I Don't Want To Get Well
Popular Song
1917 - m. Harry Jentes, w. Harry Pease, Howard Johnson PD Reprint
I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
Popular Song
1894 - m. Philip Wingate, w. H. W. Petrie V - Once there lived side by side, two little maids. Used to dress just alike, hair down in braids C - I don't want to play in your yard, I don't like you any more. You'll be sorry when you see me, sliding down our cellar door. You can't holler down our rain barrel, you can't climb our apple tree . . . PD Reprint
I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls
Traditional
1843 PD Reprint
I Gave My Love a Cherry
Traditional
1850 V - I gave my love a cherry that has no stones, I gave my love a chicken that has no bones, I gave my love a ring that has no end. PD Reprint
I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave
Popular Song
1906 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb PD Reprint
I Love A Piano
Popular Song
1915 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - As a child I went wild when a band played, How I ran to the man when his hand swayed. Clarinets were my pets and a slide trombone I thought was simply divine. C - I love a piano, I love a piano, I love to hear somebody plan upon a piano, A grand piano, It simply carries me away. I know a fine way to treat a Steinway PD Reprint
I Love Life
Popular Song
1923 - m. Mana-Zucca, w. Irwin M. Cassel V - I want to live and drink of life's fullness, Take all it can give; I love life, Ev'ry moment count To glory in its sunshine And revel in its fount. PD Reprint
I Love My Baby
Popular Song
1925 - w. Bud Green, m. Harry Warren V - Talk about your famous love affairs, Romeo and Juliet had theirs. I just found someone and someone found me. We're not very famous, but who cares? C - I love my baby. My baby loves me. Don't know nobody as happy as we. She's only twenty and I'm twenty-one. We never worry, We're just havin' fun. PD Reprint
I Love You - Je T'aime!
Popular Song
1923 - m. Harry Archer, w. English: Harlan Thompson, French: Paul Combis P - Little Jessie James - 1923, Broadway V - Lovers always sing The same familiar thing, 'I love you', I love you, I do.' How nice it would be To do it deff'rently, But now that I'm singing to you: C - 'I love you, I love you', is all that I can say. 'I love you, I love you', the same old words I'm saying in the same old way. PD Reprint
I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz)
Popular Song
1907 - m. Franz Lehar, w. Adrian Ross PD Reprint
I Love You Truly
Popular Song
1906 - w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond PD Reprint
I Miss My Swiss
Popular Song
1925 - w. L. Wolfe Gilbert, m. Abel Baer PD Reprint
I Never Knew [That Roses Grew]
Popular Song
1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Ted Fiorito PD Reprint
I Tisket I TasketSee A-Tisket A-Tasket
I Used to Love You, But It's All Over Now
Popular Song
1920 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Lew Brown V - I used to bless the day I first met you, I planned so many things for just us two. But now its plain to see that you have never cared for me. C - I used to love you, but its all over now, All over now, You know it's all over town that you threw me down, But you shouldn't let that kind of story go 'round. PD Reprint
I Want A Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad
Popular Song
1911 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Will Dillon PD Reprint
I Want To Be Happy
Popular Song
1924 - w. Irving Caesar, m. Vincent Youmans P - No, No Nanette PD Reprint
I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Down On The Farm)
Popular Song
1914 - w.m. Irving Berlin N - a.k.a. Down on the Farm PD Reprint
I Want What I Want When I Want It
Popular Song
1905 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Henry Blossom PD Reprint
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. Armand J. Piron V - Went to a dance with my sister Kate, ev'ry one there said she danced so great C - I Wish I could Shimmy like my sister Kate, She shivers like the Jelly on a plate PD Reprint
I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't
Popular Song
1923 - m. George Gershwin, w. B.G. De Sylva, Arthur Francis P - Little Miss Bluebeard - 1923, Broadway 1923-1924 V - You're a very naughty boy when you ask me for a kiss, I'm dismayed, A little bit afraid. C - I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't! I don't say I doi but I don't say I don't! Kissing of any kind Never was on my mind. PD Reprint
I Wonder What's Become Of Sally?
Popular Song
1924 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Milt Ager PD Reprint
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Popular Song
1909 - m. Joseph E. Howard, Harold Orlob, w. Wil M. Hough, Frank R. Adams P - Prince Of To-Night - 1909, V - You have loved lots of girls in the sweet long ago, And each one has meant heaven to you You have vowed your affection to each one in turn, And have sworn to them all you'd be true; C - I wonder who's kissing her now, I wonder who's teaching her how, Wonder who's looking into her eyes, Breathing sighs, telling lies; PD Reprint
I'd Climb The Highest Mountain
Popular Song
1926 - w.m. Lew Brown, Sidney Clare PD Reprint
I'd Leave Ma Happy Home for You
Popular Song
1899 PD Reprint
I'd Love To Live In Loveland With A Girl Like You
Popular Song
1910 - w.m. W.R. Williams, Leon M. Block, Harry I. Alford PD Reprint
I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
Popular Song
1920 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Neville Fleeson V - I'm writing you dear, just to tell you, In September, you remewmber . . . C - I'll be with you in apple blosson time, I'll be with you to change your name to mine PD Reprint
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
Popular Song
1922 - m. George Gershwin, w. Ira Gershwin, Bud DeSylva P - Scandals - 1922, Musical V - All you preachers Who delight in panning the dancing teachers Let me tell you there are a lot of features Of the dance that carry you through C - I'll build a stairway to Paradise With a new step ev'ry day! I'm going to get there at any price Stand aside I'm on my way! PD Reprint
I'll Give You a Paper of Pins
Children
V - I'll give to you a paper of pins, For that's the way that love begins PD Reprint
I'll See You In My Dreams
Popular Song
1924 - w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones PD Reprint
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
Popular Song
1876 PD Reprint
I'm A Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird
Popular Song
1924 - w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyer & Arthur Johnson PD Reprint
I'm a Yankee Doodle DandySee The Yankee Doodle Boy
I'm Alabama Bound
Ragtime, Music Hall
1909 - Robert Hoffman N - Rag Time Two Step. NOT 1924 Alabamy Bound, Ray Henderson, Buddy Desylba, Bud Green which is NOT PD. PD Reprint
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Popular Song
1918 - m. Harry Carroll, w. Joe McCarthy V - At the end of the rainbow there's happiness, And to find it how often I've tried, But my life is a race, just a wild goose chase, And my dreams have all been denied. C - I'm always chasing rainbow, Watching for clouds drifting by. My schemes are just like all my dreams, Ending in the sky. PD Reprint
I'm Falling in Love with Someone
Popular Song
1910 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Rida Johnson Young PD Reprint
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Popular Song
1919 - m. John W. Kellette, w. James Kendis, James Brockman, Nat Vincent V - I'm dreaming dreams I'm scheming schemes I'm building castles high. They're born a new their days are few Just like a sweet butterfly. C - I'm forever blowing bubbles. Pretty bubbles in the air. They fly so high nearly reach the sky, Then like my dreams they fade and die. PD Reprint
I'm Goin' South
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Abner Silver, Harry Woods P - Bombo - 1921, Broadway Musical V - It's just an old time story, One that you've heard before, I left my mammy's fond caress To search the world for happiness. C - Yes, sir! I'm goin' South, Taste the sugar cane right in my mouth, All the world is sweet away down South Where I spent my happy days. PD Reprint
I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston
Popular Song
1925 - w.m. Roy Turk, Lou Handman PD Reprint
I'm In Love Again
Popular Song
1925 - w.m. Cole Porter PD Reprint
I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers
Popular Song
1926 - w.m. Fred Rich, Sam Coslow, Harry Link PD Reprint
I'm Just Wild About Harry
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake PD Reprint
I'm Nobody's Baby
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Benny Davis, Milton Ager, Lester Santly V - I used to be my mother's baby, When I was near my Dad went wild C - I'm Nobody's baby, I wonder why, Each night and day I pray the Lord up above, Please send me down somebody to love PD Reprint
I'm On My Way To Mandalay
Popular Song
1913 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan PD Reprint
I'm Sitting On Top of The World
Popular Song
1925 - w. Lewis & Young, m. Ray Henderson PD Reprint
I'm Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Lou Davis, Henry Santly & Abel Baer V - There's no place like home, you never learn that til you roam. Ev'ry place I'd be that little home kept callin' me C - I'm sittin' pretty in a pretty little city down Georgia way. There are no angels near, But it seems like heaven here. PD Reprint
I've Been Working On The RailroadSee Levee Song
I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust
Popular Song
1909 - m. Herman Wade, w. Henry Warner PD Reprint
I've Got a Robe, You've Got a RobeSee Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven
I've Got Rings On My Fingers
Popular Song
1909 - m. Maurice Scott, w. R.P. Weston, F.J. Barnes PD Reprint
I've Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues
Popular Song
1923 - w. Lew Brown, m. James F. Hanley, Robert King V - Lately I've been off my nut. I keep hearing nothing but 'YES! We have no bananas'. And I'd like to find the guy Who composed that lullaby C - I've got the 'YES!' We have no banana blues. I've got the blues. And when I hear it, Oh! how I fear it.; It's just like hearing bad news. PD Reprint
If I Had My Way
Popular Song
1913 - m. James Kendis, w. Lou Klein V - I'd like to make your golden dreams come true, dear, If I only had my way. A paradise this world would seem to you, dear, If I only had my way. C - If I had my way, dear, forever there's be a garden of roses for you and for me, A thousand and one things, dear, I would do, Just for you, just for you. PD Reprint
If I Knock the L Out of Kelly
Popular Song
1916 - m. Bert Grant, w. Joe Young, Sam Lewis PD Reprint
If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts
Popular Song
1915 - m. Jimmy Monaco, w. Joe McCarthy C - If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts, We'll Just Be the Same Old Friends PD Reprint
If You Knew Susie
Popular Song
1925 - w.m. B.G. De Sylva V - I have got a sweetie known as Susie. In the words of Shakespeare she's a 'wow' C - If you knew Susie like I know Susie Oh! Oh! Oh! What a girl. PD Reprint
If You Were The Only Girl in the World
Popular Song
1916 - m. Nat D. Ayer, w. Clifford Grey P - Bing Boys Are Here - 1916, V - Sometimes when I feel bad and things look blue, I wish a girl I had say one like you. C - If I were the only girl in the world, And you were the only boy, Nothing else would matter in world today. PD Reprint
Il Travatore
Popular Song
PD Reprint
In A Little Spanish Town
Popular Song
1926 - w. Sam Lewis, You Young, m. Mabel Wayne PD Reprint
In A Monastery Garden
Popular Song
PD Reprint
In Good Old New York Town
Popular Song
1899 - w.m. Paul Dresser PD Reprint
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Popular Song
1905 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Vincent Bryan PD Reprint
In Old Madrid
Traditional
Trotere PD Reprint
In Old New YorkSee The Streets of New York (In Old New York)
In Shadowland
Popular Song
1924 - w. Sam W. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ruth Brooks & Fred E. Ahlert PD Reprint
In the Bright Mohawk Valley
Traditional
1890's V - For they say from this valley you're going. We shall miss your sweet face and bright smile. You will take with you all the sunshine That has gladdened out hearts for a while. C - Fot the sake of the past, do not leave me. Do not hasten to bid me adieu! On, remain in this bright Mohawk Valley, With the fond heart that lives but for you. N - Only known PD version of 'Red River Valley'. PD Reprint
In the Evening By the Moonlight
Popular Song
1878 - w.m. James A. Bland V - In de ebening by de moonlight when dis darkies work was over, We would gather round de fire, 'till de hoecake it was done C - In de ebening by de moonlight, you could hear us darkies singing, In de ebning by de moonlight, you could hear de banjo ringing PD Reprint
In the Gloaming
Children
1877 V - In the gloaming little children say goodnight to mother dear PD Reprint
In The Good Old Summertime
Popular Song
1902 - m. George Evans, w. Ren Shields V - There's a time in each year that we always hold dear, Good old summer time; With the birds and the trees-es and sweet scented breezes, Good old summer time C - In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime. Strolling thro' the shandy lanes With your baby mine; You hold her hand and she holds yours . . . PD Reprint
In The Middle Of The Night
Popular Song
1925 - w. Billy Rose, m. Walter Donaldson PD Reprint
In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Popular Song
1905 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Harry H. Williams PD Reprint
Indian Love Call
Popular Song
1924 - w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Rudolf Friml P - Rose Marie V - So echoes of sweet love notes gently fall Thru the forest stillness, as fond waiting Indian lovers call! C - When I'm calling you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo! Will you answer too-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo? That means I offer my love to you to be you own. N - a.k.a The Call PD Reprint
Indiana (Back Home Again In)
Popular Song
1917 - m. James.F. Hanley, w. Ballard MacDonald V - I have always been a wand'rer, Over land and sea. Yet a moonbeam on the water Casts a spell o'er me C - Back home again in Indiana, And it seems that I can see The gleaming candle light still shining bright Thru the sycamores for me PD Reprint
Indiana Moon
Popular Song
1923 - w. Benny Davis, m. Isham Jones V - Indiana Moon for you I'm pining. Pining ever since I went away. Pretty soon I'm gonna se you shining, For I'm going home today. C - Indiana Moon I miss you. Indiana Moon I'm blue. There's somebody there I long to kiss too, With a heart of love that's ever PD Reprint
Indianola
Popular Song
1917 - w.m. S.R. Henry, Domenico Savino PD Reprint
Integer Vitae
College
Fleming PD Reprint
Iola
Popular Song
1906 - m. Charles L. Johnson N - Intermezzo Two-Step. The chorus of Iola is the melody to the 1940 hit Playmates by Saxie Dowell. Charles L. Johnson sued and there was an out of court settlement. Playmates words were likely stolen from I Don't Want To Play In Y PD Reprint
Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came From There
Popular Song
1916 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Joe McCarthy, Howard Johnson V - I've often heard my daddy speak of Ireland's lake and dells, The place must be like Heaven, if it's half like what he tells. C - Ireland must be Heaven, for an angel came from there. I never knew a living soul one half as sweet or fair. PD Reprint
Irish Washerwoman
Traditional
1792 - m. Traditional Irish Jig PD Reprint
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Wendell Hall V - Oh! The night was dark and dreary, The air was full of sleet, The old man stood out in the storm, his shoes were full of feet. C - Oh! It ain't gonna rain no mo' no mo'. It ain't gonna rain no mo'. But how in the world can the old folks tell, It ain't a-gonna rain no mo'. PD Reprint
It Had To Be You
Popular Song
1924 - m. Isham Edgar Jones (1894-1956), w. Gus Kahn (1886-1941) V - Why do I do just as you say. Why must I just give you your way. Why do I sigh. Why don't I forget. It must have been something lovers call fate. C - It had to be you. It had to be you. I wander'd around And finally found The somebody who Could make me be true, could make me be blue. PD Reprint
It's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary
Popular Song
1912 - w.m. Jack Judge, Harry H. Williams PD Reprint
It's Nice to Get Up in the Morning
Popular Song
1913 - w.m. Harry Lauder V - O! ye'll never never never thrive lying in yer bed C - O, it's nice to get up in the morning when the sun begins to shine PD Reprint
Italian Street Song
Popular Song
1910 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Rida Johnson Young V - Ah! my heart is back in Napoli, Dear Napoli C - Zing, Zing, zizzy, zizzy,zing, zing, Boom, boom aye PD Reprint
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