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ALesser Known Public Domain SongsA List of 214

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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.
A and M College Song
College
N - Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College PD Reprint
A B C D E F GSee Alphabet Song
A-Gypsying Into The Sun
Popular Song
1916 - m. A. Louis Scarmolin, w. Sara Beaumont Kennedy PD Reprint
A-Roving
College
PD Reprint
Abendlied
Traditional
1648 - Paul Gerhardt N - 15th Century Folk Tune PD Reprint
Abergenny
Traditional
1721 PD Reprint
Abolitionist Hymn
Traditional
PD Reprint
Abschied (So leb denn wohl, du stilles Haus!)
Traditional
1828 - w. Ferdinand Raimund, m. Wenzel Muller PD Reprint
Absence and Return
Traditional
1890 PD Reprint
Absent
Traditional
1899 PD Reprint
Absinthe Frappe
Popular Song
1904 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Glen MacDonough PD Reprint
Accomplished Maid
Traditional
1790 PD Reprint
Acres of Clams
Traditional
PD Reprint
Action Song
Children
Alfred S. Gatty V - Tell me, my children, and pray answer right. Are hands made to work with or only to fight? PD Reprint
Adams and Liberty
Traditional
1798 PD Reprint
Adelina Yale Boola Girl
College
N - Yale University PD Reprint
Adieu to Dear Cambria
Traditional
Traditional Welsh PD Reprint
Adieu, Dundee
Traditional
PD Reprint
Adieu! 'Tis Love's Last Greeting
Traditional
1885 - Schubert PD Reprint
Admiral Benbow
Traditional
PD Reprint
Adson's Sarabande
Traditional
1665 PD Reprint
Aeroplane
Traditional
1913 - Jack Glogau PD Reprint
African Pas'
Traditional
PD Reprint
After 'While
Popular Song
1909 - w.m. Charles K. Harris V - Years have come and years have gone so silently C - After while, after while, you will wonder why your heart is always aching PD Reprint
After A Thousand Years
Popular Song
1917 - m. James V. Monaco, w. Alfred Dubin PD Reprint
After All That I Have Been To You
Popular Song
1912 - m. Chris Smith, w. Jack Drislane V - You say 'tis the end of love's story, You say it's our last good-bye. Love dies in the youth of it's glory, To bear it all now I must try. C - After all that I've been to you, After all of these many years, After ev'ry thing I've gone through, After all of our joys and our tears . . . PD Reprint
After The Roses Have Faded Away
Popular Song
1914 - m. Ernest Ball, w. Bessie Buchanan PD Reprint
After They Gather The Hay
Popular Song
1906 - m. S.R. Henry, w. James J. Walker PD Reprint
Afterwards
Traditional
1885 - Mullen PD Reprint
Afton Water
Traditional
PD Reprint
Agitation Rag
Ragtime, Music Hall
1915 - m. Robert Hampton PD Reprint
Ah Me Conditione
College
PD Reprint
Ah, Love, But A Day
Popular Song
1900 - m. Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, w. Robert Browning V - Ah, Love, but a day, And the world has changed! . . . The sun's away, and the bird estranged, The wind has dropped, and the sky's deranged. PD Reprint
Ah! I Have Sighed to Rest Me
Traditional
1885 - Verdi PD Reprint
Ah! So Pure
Traditional
1848 - (Martha) Flotow PD Reprint
Ah! Willow
Traditional
1890 PD Reprint
Aignish on the Machair
Traditional
Traditional Scots PD Reprint
Ain't Dat A Shame
Popular Song
1901 - m. Walter Wilson, w. John Queen V - One dark and stormy night,the rain was falling fast, Bill Bailey told his lady friend, 'Our dream of love is past' C - Ain't dat a shame, a measly shame, To keep your honey out in the rain. Will you open dat door and let me in, I stand here freezin' wet to the skin. PD Reprint
Ain't I Glad I've Got Out the Wilderness
Spiritual
Spiritual V - O, ain't I glad I've got out the wilderness C - Come aleaning on the Lord PD Reprint
Ain't It Funny What A Difference Just A Few Hours Make
Popular Song
1903 - m. Alfred G. Robyn, w. Henry M. Blossom PD Reprint
Ain't You Coming Back to Old New Hampshire, Molly?
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Ainsworth Psalter
Traditional
1620 PD Reprint
Air from "Grand Duchess"
Traditional
1900 PD Reprint
Air from "Robert le Diable"
Traditional
1900 PD Reprint
Airy Fairy Lillian
Traditional
1894 PD Reprint
Al Fresco
Popular Song
1904 - m. Victor Herbert PD Reprint
Alabama Dream (A Rag Time Cake Walk)
Traditional
1899 - George D. Barnard PD Reprint
Alabama Lullaby
Popular Song
1919 - w.m. Cal De Voll PD Reprint
Alabama Moon
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. George H. Green PD Reprint
Alchurch
Traditional
1718 PD Reprint
Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?)
Popular Song
1904 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling PD Reprint
Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland
Popular Song
1919 - m. Albert Gumble, w. Jack Yellen PD Reprint
Alice Where Art Thou?
Traditional
1885 - Ascher PD Reprint
Alice, Where Art Thou Going?
Popular Song
1906 - m. Albert Gumble, w. Will Heelan PD Reprint
All Aboard For Blanket Bay
Popular Song
1910 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling PD Reprint
All Along the Line
1906 - m. A. Liberati N - March PD Reprint
All Coons Look Alike to Me
Popular Song
1896 PD Reprint
All for the Sake of California
College
N - University of California PD Reprint
All For You
Popular Song
1921 - m. Arnold Johnson, w. Benny Davis V - Cuddle up dear, I am sincere, There's something I want to tell you C - All for you, All for you, I would start my life anew PD Reprint
All Hail to Thee Fair Western
College
N - Western College PD Reprint
All I Have Are Sunny Weather Friends
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. Kendis & Brockman PD Reprint
All In, Down And Out
Popular Song
1906 - m. Rosamond Johnson, Chris Smith, Elmer Bowman, w. Cecil Mack (R.C. McPherson) V - I had a friend I thought was true But I've found out friends won't never do C - Sorry, I ain't got it, you could get it, if I had it. But I'm all in down and out. I could send you to a friend who'd be very glad to lend you PD Reprint
All Is Quiet
Traditional
Rosewig PD Reprint
All on the Road to Brighton
Traditional
Traditional English PD Reprint
All Over Nothing At All
Popular Song
1922 - m. James Rule, w. J. Keirn Brennan,Paul Cunningham PD Reprint
All Over Now
College
PD Reprint
All Over This World
Spiritual
V - All my troubles will soon be over C - All over this world PD Reprint
All That I Ask Of You Is Love
Popular Song
1910 - m. Herbert Ingraham, w. Edgar Selden V - I care not what the world may say. Or if it mock and jeer. I'd care not for it's smiles or frowns, If you were always near. C - All that I ask is love, All that I want is you. And I swear by all the stars, I'll be forever true. PD Reprint
All the Money
Ragtime, Music Hall
m. Raymond Birch N - March and Two-Step PD Reprint
All Throughout the Great Wide World I Wandered
Traditional
PD Reprint
All Up and Down, My Honey
Traditional
N - a.k.a. Sugar Lump PD Reprint
Allah's Holiday
Popular Song
1916 - m. Rudolf Friml, w. Otto Harbach PD Reprint
Alleluia
Popular Song
1917 - w. Norah Phillips V - Let joyful praise to Heav'n ascend, for signs and tears have now an end C - Allueluia, Alleluia, Alleluia PD Reprint
Allemand in A
Traditional
1823 PD Reprint
Allemand in F
Traditional
1823 PD Reprint
Alles ist hin!
Traditional
1799 - German Folksong PD Reprint
Allurement of Love
Traditional
1830 - m. Welch Air: Serch Hudol w. Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) V - To thee, lov'd Dee, thy glasome vales Where late with careles steps I rang'd N - Other words for this tune by J.R. Planche It Is Not For Gold and John Oxenford Weep Not, I Pray PD Reprint
Allurement of the Pipe
Traditional
1830 PD Reprint
Alma (Where Do You Live?)
Popular Song
1910 - m. Adolph Phipp, w. George V. Hobart PD Reprint
Alma Mater
College
PD Reprint
Alma MaterSee Far Above Cayuga's Waters
Alma Mater - Amherst
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Brown
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Colby
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Colgate
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Cornell
College
V - Far above Cayuga's waters, With its waves of blue, Stands our noble Alma Mater, Glorious to view. C - Lift the chorus, speed it onward, Loud her praises tell; Hail to thee! our Alma Mater, Hall, all, hail, Cornell! PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Greenville
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Illinois
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Lake Erie
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Lehigh
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Muhlenberg
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Ohio State University
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Ohio Wesleyan College
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Princeton
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Swarthmore
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Syracuse
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - University of Chicago
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - University of North Dakota
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - University of Wisconsin
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater - US Military Academy
College
N - Male Voices PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Vassar
College
V - Vassar, we sing thy praises, Thy beauty, thy powers, thy fame C - Drink we our Alma Mater, Hurrah for the Rose and the Gray PD Reprint
Alma Mater - Yale
College
PD Reprint
Alma Mater O
College
PD Reprint
Almost Over
Traditional
PD Reprint
Along the Peterskaya Road
Traditional
PD Reprint
Alphabet for Little Masters & Misses
Traditional
1775 PD Reprint
Alpine Love Story
Popular Song
1913 PD Reprint
Alt Wien
Popular Song
1920 PD Reprint
Altassyrisch
Traditional
Victor von Scheffel PD Reprint
Always [Horwitz, Bowers]
Popular Song
1899 - m. Fred Bowers, w. Charles Horwitz V - You ask me if this love of ours, sweetheart, will ever die. C - Always, Always, I will love you always. Do not fear, my love is true, and I live alone for you. N - Not Always (I'll be loving you, always), by Irving Berlin, 1925, which is NOT in the public domain. PD Reprint
Always In The Way
Popular Song
1903 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
Always Take Mother's Advice
Traditional
1884 - Jennie Lindsay V - Honor your mother, so dear, You'll never know her worth 'til she's gone; Respect her grey hair while she's here, You'll be sad when she leaves you alone. C - Always take mother's advice, She knows what is best for your good; Let her kind words then suffice, And never speak hasty or rude. PD Reprint
Am I Not Fondly Thine Own
Traditional
1849 PD Reprint
Amapa - Le Vrai Tango Bresilien
Dance
1913 - m. J. Storoni N - Tango PD Reprint
Amaryllis
Traditional
1670 PD Reprint
Amazon Rag
Traditional
Teddy Hahn PD Reprint
American Hymn
Traditional
PD Reprint
American Jubilee
Popular Song
1916 - m. Edward B. Claypoole PD Reprint
Amici
College
N - Columbia University PD Reprint
Amid the New-Mown Hay
Traditional
Traditional PD Reprint
Amina
Popular Song
1909 - m. Paul Lincke, w. Ballard MacDonald PD Reprint
Amo Amas I Love a Lass
Traditional
Traditional PD Reprint
Amorous Goldfish
Traditional
1896 - Greenbank & Jones PD Reprint
An den Fruhling
Traditional
Grieg PD Reprint
An den Mond
Traditional
18th Century Folk Song PD Reprint
An die Freude
Traditional
1785 - Traditional PD Reprint
Anchored
Popular Song
m. Michael Watson, w. Samuel K. Cowan, M.A. V - Flying with flowing sail, over the summer sea! Sheer thro' the seething gald Homeward bound was she! C - Safe at last, the danger past, safe in this father's home PD Reprint
And A Little Bit More
Popular Song
1907 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan PD Reprint
And A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Popular Song
1906 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back
Traditional
1894 PD Reprint
And Then
College
PD Reprint
And When I Die
Traditional
Traditional English N - Army Marching Song PD Reprint
And When the Leaves
College
PD Reprint
Andantino in Db
Traditional
Lemare PD Reprint
Andreas Hofer
Traditional
w. J.Mosen, m. Traditional PD Reprint
Angel Child
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. George Price, Abner Silver, Benny Davis PD Reprint
Angel Food
Traditional
1911 - Al Marzian PD Reprint
Angel Gabriel
College
PD Reprint
Angelic Songs are Swelling
Traditional
Armstrong PD Reprint
Angeline
College
PD Reprint
Angels - We Call Them Mothers Down Here
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby V - I watched a sweet little laddie die, One day at play, and I heard him say C - Angels have sould that are pure, Angels have hearts full of love PD Reprint
Angels Changed My Name
Spiritual
V - I went to the hillside, I went to pray; I know the angels done changed my name. N - 1905 Piano arrangement by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor cited as from Jubilee Songs. Unable to identify original Jubilee Songs source. PD Reprint
Angels of Night
Popular Song
1909 - w.m. Harry J. Lincoln PD Reprint
Anna Maria
Traditional
1698 PD Reprint
Annchen von Tharau
Traditional
w. 1778, m - Herder from Simon Dach (1637), m. Friedrich Silcher PD Reprint
Anona
Popular Song
1903 - m. Robert A. King, w. Mabel McKinley PD Reprint
Another Rag
Popular Song
1911 - w.m. Theodore F. Morse PD Reprint
Answer Saying That You Love Me
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Norman J. Vause PD Reprint
Anthem of the ILGWU
Traditional
PD Reprint
Anti-Saloon Army
Traditional
1899 PD Reprint
Antique Mosaic
College
N - A College Medley PD Reprint
Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me
Popular Song
1901 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome PD Reprint
Any Rags
Popular Song
1902 - w.m. Thomas S. Allen V - Did you ever hear the story of Ragged Jagged Jack? Here he comes down the street with a pack on his back. C - Any rags? Rags? Any rags, any bones, any bottles today. There's a big black rag picker coming this way. PD Reprint
Anybody Here?
Spiritual
V - The angels wings were tipp'd with gold C - Is there anybody here That loves my Jesus PD Reprint
Apache Dance
Traditional
Offenbach PD Reprint
Apley House
Traditional
1703 PD Reprint
Apple Blossoms
Popular Song
1911 - m. Chas. B. Brown PD Reprint
Araby
Popular Song
1915 - w.m. Irving Berlin PD Reprint
Araby's Daughter
Traditional
1822 PD Reprint
Arbana Reel
Traditional
1823 PD Reprint
Archangel, Open the Door
Traditional
PD Reprint
Are We Almost There
Traditional
1849 PD Reprint
Are You From Heaven?
Popular Song
1917 - m. Anatole Friedland, w. L. Wolfe Gilbert PD Reprint
Are You Lonesome?
Popular Song
1909 - m. Grace LeBoy, w. Gus Kahn PD Reprint
Are You Sincere?
Popular Song
1908 - m. Albert Gumble (1883 - 1946), w. Alfred Bryan (1871 - 1958) V - A youth and a maiden were tripping along, skipping along, singing a song. C - Are you sincere? If you're sincere, I'll let you call me your Dearie. Say what you mean, mean what you say . . . PD Reprint
Arethusa
Traditional
1730 - w. Prince Hoare, m. O'Carolan V - Come all ye holly sailors bold, Whose hearts are cast in honour's mould; While English glory I unford, Huza! for the Arethusa! PD Reprint
Argeers
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Argentines Portugese, And The Greeks
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. Arthur Swanstrom, Carey Morgan PD Reprint
Ariel Mason
Traditional
PD Reprint
Arise My Soul
Traditional
Edson PD Reprint
Arise, Arise
Traditional
PD Reprint
Army Blue
College
N - Male Voices PD Reprint
Army Oh Army
College
PD Reprint
Army Team
College
PD Reprint
Army's Coming Down the River
College
PD Reprint
Arthur McBride
Traditional
Traditional Irish PD Reprint
Artillery Song
College
PD Reprint
As A Little Child
Children
C.M. von Weber V - As a little child relies On a care beyond its own, Knows beneath it father's eyes, It is never left alone. PD Reprint
As Good As Gold
Traditional
1900 PD Reprint
As I Gaed Down Glenmoriston
Traditional
Traditional Scots PD Reprint
As I Walked Out
Traditional
Traditional PD Reprint
As I Walked Through the Meadows
Traditional
PD Reprint
As Quick as you Please
Traditional
1728 PD Reprint
As to Clonnel we go
Traditional
Ireland PD Reprint
As We Parted At The Gate
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. E. Austin Keith PD Reprint
As Your Hair Grows Whiter
Popular Song
1897 - w.m. Harry Dacre V - Light of my life! I will always love you darling C - As your hair grows whiter, I will love you more ! PD Reprint
Ashy Africa
Traditional
Percy Weinrich PD Reprint
Ask a Policeman
Traditional
1889 - E.W. Rogers PD Reprint
Ask Her While The Band Is Playing
Popular Song
1908 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Glen MacDonough PD Reprint
At the Chicken Chaser's Ball
Popular Song
w.m. Vardon and Perry V - All the town boys gave a ball and invited me to call C - When the jazz band started blowing, all the roosters started crowing PD Reprint
At the Dawn of the Day
Folk Song
V - Loko ku ti ga loko ku ti ga N - Southeast Africa. Piano arrangement by S. Coleridge-Taylor PD Reprint
At The End Of A Beautiful Day
Popular Song
1916 - w.m. William H. Perkins PD Reprint
At the Hop
College
PD Reprint
At The Ragtime Ball
Popular Song
1911 - m. James V. Monaco, w. Roger Lewis PD Reprint
At Trinity Church I Met My Doom
Traditional
1894 PD Reprint
At Twilight
College
N - On the Chapel Steps PD Reprint
At Twilight When The Shadows Fall
Popular Song
1918 - w.m. J. Stanley Brothers, Jr. V - When the shadows of the night fall softly from above C - Sing me just a song at twilight, just a melody of love PD Reprint
Auf Wiedersehn
Popular Song
1915 - w. Herbert Reynolds, m. Sigmund Romberg P - Blue Paradise - 1915, Broadway V - Let me hold you close to my heart, Brush your tears away, dear, while a fond C - Love lives ever, Knowing no word like good bye, Hearts may sever, True love can never die. Calm all your fears and dry all your tears PD Reprint
Augustan Club Waltz
Ragtime, Music Hall
PD Reprint
Auld Hoose
Traditional
Traditional Scots PD Reprint
Aupres de Ma Blonde
Traditional
1580 - Traditional France PD Reprint
Auretti's Dutch Skippe
Traditional
1756 PD Reprint
Aurora Waltz
Traditional
1849 PD Reprint
Aurore Bradaire
Traditional
PD Reprint
Australia
College
PD Reprint
Automation
Traditional
PD Reprint
Autumn Song
Children
V - Oh, little bird upon the tree, What will you sing today? Now spring has gone and summer gone, And swallows flown away PD Reprint
Ave Maria ~ Millard
Popular Song
1892 - w.m. H. Millard PD Reprint
Away Away Away We Go
College
PD Reprint
Away Down in Sunbury
Traditional
PD Reprint
Away to the Hills
Traditional
1890 PD Reprint
Away to the Oaken Grove
Traditional
1830 PD Reprint
Aye Aye Aye Friere
Traditional
1800's - Friere PD Reprint
Azalea
Popular Song
1902 - m. B. Hartz PD Reprint
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