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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.
O How Could Ye Gang Lassie?
Traditional
1821 - w. Tannahill, A. Rodgers, m. R.A. Smith N - Traditional Scots PD Reprint
O Katharina
Popular Song
1924 - w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Richard Fall PD Reprint
O Lord Most Holy - Panis Angelicus
Hymn
1872 - m. Cesar Franck, w. St Thomas Aquinas V - O Lord Most Holy, O Lord Most Mighty, O loving Father, Thee would we be praising alway. C - Panis angelicus fit panis hominum; Dat panis coelicus figuris terminum; O res mriabilits! Manducat Dominum Pauper, servus et humilis. N - Words 'Sacris solemniis' PD Reprint
O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn
Spiritual
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. PD Reprint
O No John!
Folk Song
PD Reprint
O Perfect Love
Popular Song
1904 - m. Joseph Barnby, w. Dorothy F. Blomfield Gurney V - O Perfect Love . . . all human thought transcending, Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy Throne, That theirs may be the love which knows no ending N - Several alternate tunes by Harry Burleigh and others. PD Reprint
O Tannenbaum
Traditional
1824 - w. Ernst Anschutz, m. Traditional PD Reprint
Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow
Children
V - Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow, Can you or I or any one know, How oats peas, beans, and barley grow? PD Reprint
Oft in the Stilly Night
Traditional
1885 - Moore PD Reprint
Oh Dem Golden Slippers
Traditional
1879 - James A Bland V - On, my golden slippers am laid away, Kase I don't 'spect to wear 'em till my weddin' day, And my long tail'd coat, dat I loved so well, I will wear up in de chariot in de morn; C - Oh, dem golden slippers! . . Golden slippers I'm gwine to wear, becase dey look so neat; Oh, dem golden slippers! . . . Golden slippers Ise gwine to wear, To walk de golden street. PD Reprint
Oh Didn't It Rain
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Eddie Leonard V - We came from far away Upon a summer's day, Didn't it Rain. We went to the Polo Grounds To see a baseball game. Didn't it rain. C - Because it Rained. Didn't it rain. The way it rained it was a shame, We'll never go there again, Because it rained. PD Reprint
Oh Freedom
Spiritual
V - Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom over me. C - An' before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave, An' go home to my Lord an' be free. PD Reprint
Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly I'm In Love
Popular Song
1923 - w. Ole Olson, Chick Johnson, m. Ernest Breuer PD Reprint
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!
Popular Song
1917 - m. Abe Olman, w. Ed Rose PD Reprint
Oh Lady Be Good
Popular Song
1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin P - Lady Be Good PD Reprint
Oh Miss Hannah
Popular Song
1924 - w. Thekla Hollingsworth m. Jessie L. Deppen PD Reprint
Oh My Darling Clementine
Traditional
1884 V - In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine, dwelt a miner, forty-niner, And his daughter, Clementine. C - Ruby lips above the water, Blowing bubbles soft and fine. But alas, I was no swimmer, so I lost my Clementine. N - a.k.a. Oh, My Darling Clementine PD Reprint
Oh Promise Me
Traditional
1889 - m. Reginal De Koven, w. Clement Scott V - Oh, promise me that someday you and I will take our love together to some sky PD Reprint
Oh Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog GoneSee Where Has My Little Dog Gone
Oh You Beautiful Doll
Popular Song
1911 - m. Nat D. Ayer, w. A. Seymour Brown PD Reprint
Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
Popular Song
1924 - w.m. Benny Davis, Joe Burke, Mark Fisher PD Reprint
Oh! Didn't He Ramble
Popular Song
1902 - w.m. William H. Handy PD Reprint
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Popular Song
1918 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine, He's been in camp for sev'rl weeks and he was looking fine; C - Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning, Oh, how I'd love to remain in bed; For the hardest blow of all, is to hear the bugler call; You've got to get up this morning. PD Reprint
Oh! Mabel
Popular Song
1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ted Fio Rito PD Reprint
Oh! Susanna
Traditional
1848 - Stephen Collins Foster (1826 - 1864) V - I come from Alabama, Wid my banjo on my knee. I'm gwyne to Louisiana, My true love for to see; It rained all night the day I left, The weather it was dry . . . C - Oh! Sussanna, Oh don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama Wid my banjo on my knee. PD Reprint
Oh! What A Pal Was Mary
Popular Song
1919 - m. Pete Wendling, w. Edgar Leslie, Bert Kalmar PD Reprint
Old Black Joe
Traditional
1860 - Stephen Collins Foster V - Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay; Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away. C - I'm coming, I'm coming, For my head is bending low; I hear those gently voices calling "Old Black Joe" PD Reprint
Old Chisholm Trail
Traditional
PD Reprint
Old Dan Tucker
Traditional
1843 - Dan Emmett PD Reprint
Old Dog Tray
Traditional
1853 - Stephen Collins Foster PD Reprint
Old Fashioned Love
Popular Song
1923 - w. Cecil Mack m. James P. Johnson PD Reprint
Old Folks at Home
Traditional
V - Way down upon the Swanee ribber, Far, far away C - All de world am sad and dreary' Eb'ry whar I roam N - a.k.a. Way Down Upon the Swanee River PD Reprint
Old Grey Mare
Popular Song
1918 - m. Traditional PD Reprint
Old King Tut
Popular Song
1923 - w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer PD Reprint
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Children
V - Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o. And on that farm he had some dogs in Ohio-i-o. With a bow-wow here, and a bow-wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow-wow N - Originally Old Macdougal Had a Farm PD Reprint
Old Oaken Bucket
Traditional
w. Woodworth Poem V - How dear to my heart are the scense of my childhood, When fond recollections present them to view. PD Reprint
Old Rosin the Beau
Traditional
1835 V - I love for the good of my nation, And my sons are all growing low, But I hope that my next generation, Will resemble old Rosin, the beau. PD Reprint
Old Rugged Cross
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Old Ship of Zion
Spiritual
V - Come along, come along, and let's go home. O glory hallelujah! C - Tis the old ship of Zion, Hallelujah. Tis the old ship of Zion, Hallelujah. PD Reprint
Old Time Religion
Traditional
1865 V - It was good for our mothers, it was good for our mothers . . . And it's good enough for me. C - Tis the old time religion, 'Tis the old time religion, . . . And it's good enough for me. PD Reprint
Ole Miss Rag
Traditional
1916 - W.C. Handy PD Reprint
On Miami Shore
Popular Song
1919 - m. Victor Jacobi, w. William LeBaron PD Reprint
On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away
Traditional
1897 PD Reprint
On The Beach at Waikiki
Popular Song
1915 - m. Henry Kailimai, w. G.H. Stover PD Reprint
On The Mall
Popular Song
1923 - m. Edwin Franko Goldman PD Reprint
Once In A Blue Moon
Popular Song
1923 - w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern PD Reprint
One Alone
Popular Song
1926 - w. Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Sigmund Romberg P - The Desert Song PD Reprint
One I Love Belongs To Someone Else
Popular Song
1924 - w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones PD Reprint
Only A Rose
Popular Song
1925 - w. Brian Hooker, m. Rudolf Friml PD Reprint
Orange Grove In California
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Irving Berlin (1888-1989) PD Reprint
Our Boys Will Shine
Traditional
m. American Folk Song V - Our boys will shine tonight, Our boys will shine . . . all down the line . . . When the sun goes down and the moon comes up, Our boys will shine. PD Reprint
Out Where The Blue Begins
Popular Song
1923 - Graff, McHugh, Grant PD Reprint
Over There
Popular Song
1917 - w.m. George m. Cohan PD Reprint
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