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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.
H 2 S O 4
College
PD Reprint
H 2 S O 4 on K Cl O 3
College
PD Reprint
Ha Ha Ha Ha
College
PD Reprint
Hackensack Reel
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hai, Johnny Roach
Traditional
1859 - Dan Emmett PD Reprint
Hail Beloit
College
N - Beloit College PD Reprint
Hail Lafayette
College
N - Lafayette College PD Reprint
Hail Pennsylvania
College
N - University of Pennsylvania PD Reprint
Hail Smiling Morn
Traditional
Spofforth PD Reprint
Hail Stanford Hail
College
N - Leland Stanford Jr. University PD Reprint
Hail Thee Our Bethany
College
N - Bethany College PD Reprint
Hail to Denver University
College
PD Reprint
Hail to Juniata
College
N - Juniata College PD Reprint
Hail to Old I.U.
College
N - Indiana University PD Reprint
Hail, Mary
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Spiritual
V - Oh look up yander, what I see, I'm on my journey home. C - Children, hail, hail, hail! I'm gwine jine saints above . . . I'm on my journey home. PD Reprint
Halfe Hannikin
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Hallelu, Hallelu
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hallelujah
Spiritual
V - O, I've been to the sea, and I've done been tried, Been downinto the sea . . . and I've been baptized. C - Hallelujah and a hallelujah! Hallelujah Lord! I been down into the sea. PD Reprint
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Traditional
PD Reprint
Ham And!
Traditional
Arthur Marshall PD Reprint
Hambleton's Round
Traditional
1713 PD Reprint
Hame, Hame, Hame!
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hamilton's Song
College
N - Hanilton College PD Reprint
Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane
Popular Song
1902 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome PD Reprint
Hand That Rocked My Cradle Rules My Heart
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Traditional
1895 PD Reprint
Handel SM
Traditional
1890 - Handel PD Reprint
Handful of Earth from Mother's Grave
Traditional
1883 PD Reprint
Handicap March
Traditional
1895 PD Reprint
Hannah, Won't You Open That Door
Popular Song
1904 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling PD Reprint
Hans und Liesel
Traditional
1845 - m. Franz von Woyna PD Reprint
Happy Are We Tonight
College
PD Reprint
Happy Captive
Traditional
1777 PD Reprint
Happy Days in Dixie
Traditional
1896 PD Reprint
Happy Kitten
Children
V - See the happy kitten, playing with the knittin', How she rolls the ball about PD Reprint
Happy Land
Traditional
PD Reprint
Happy Lover
Traditional
1890 PD Reprint
Happy Morning
Traditional
PD Reprint
Happy Peasants
Traditional
Schumann PD Reprint
Happy Rag
Ragtime, Music Hall
1913 - R.G. Grady PD Reprint
Harbor of Lost Dreams
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Harbor Of Love
Popular Song
1911 - m. Charlotte Blake, w. Earl C. Jones PD Reprint
Hard Times in the Mill
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hard to Rise Again
Spiritual
V - Jesus, my all to heaven is gone, Hally, O haly, O hallelu! He whom I fix my hopes upon, Hard to rise again. C - O Saten comes like a busy ole man. Hally, O haly, O hallelu! He gets you down at de footy of de hill. Hard to Rise Again. PD Reprint
Hard Trials
Spiritual
V - De fox hav hole in de groun', An' de bird hab nest in de air, An' ebry t'ing hab a hiding place, But we, poor sinner, hab none. C - Now ain't dat hard trials, great tribulation, Ain't dat hard. PD Reprint
Hardy Norseman
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hare's Maggot
Traditional
1701 PD Reprint
Harem Scarem Rag
Traditional
George L. (Lem) Trombley PD Reprint
Hares on the Mountains
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hark ! Hark ! The Dogs Do Bark
Children
V - Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark, Beggars are coming to town; PD Reprint
Hark I Hear a Voice
College
PD Reprint
Hark the Lark
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hark! Hark! The Lark
Traditional
Shakespeare PD Reprint
Hark! I Hear a Voice
Traditional
PD Reprint
Harlaem Waltz
Traditional
PD Reprint
Harlem Rag
Traditional
Tom Turpin PD Reprint
Harmony Blues
Popular Song
1917 - J Bodewalt Lampe N - Fox Trot (no lyrics) PD Reprint
Harmony Club Waltz
Ragtime, Music Hall
1896 - m. Scott Joplin (1867 - 1917) PD Reprint
Harvard Every Day
College
PD Reprint
Harvard Hymn
College
PD Reprint
Harvard Sovereign Mother
College
PD Reprint
Harvard's Day
College
N - Harvard university PD Reprint
Harvardiana
College
PD Reprint
Haste Thee Jolly Boatman "Fra Diavolo"
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hasten Lord the Glorious Time
Traditional
PD Reprint
Haul on the Bowlin'
Traditional
PD Reprint
Haymaking Song
Children
V - Boys and girls come out today, We must go a making hay. Heigh-o, Heigh-o, out a making hay. PD Reprint
Hazazaa
Popular Song
1913 - m. Emmerich Kalman, w. C.C.S. Cushing, E.P. Heath P - Sari - 1913, PD Reprint
Hazel Dell
Traditional
Root PD Reprint
He Arose
Spiritual
V - They crucified my Savior and nailed Him to the cross. . . And the Lord will bear my spirit home. C - He 'rose . . . He 'rose from the dead, And the Lord shall bear my spirit home. PD Reprint
He Done His Level Best
College
PD Reprint
He Goes To Church On Sunday
Popular Song
1907 - m. E. Ray Goetz, w. Vincent Bryan PD Reprint
He Is King Of Kings
Spiritual
V - He built a platform in the air. No man works like Him; He meets the saints from ev'rywhere; No man works like Him. C - He is King of kings, He is Lord of lords. Jesus Christ, the first and the last, No man works like Him. PD Reprint
He Laid Away A Suite Of Gray
Popular Song
1900 - m. Ben Janson, w. Edward W. Wicks PD Reprint
He May Be Old But He's Got Young Ideas
Popular Song
PD Reprint
He Raises A Poor Lazarus
Spiritual
V - Oh, He raise a poor Lazarus, He raise him from de dead, While many were standin' by. Jesus loosen' de man from under de groun' An' tell him Go Prophesy PD Reprint
He Walked Right In, Turned Around
Popular Song
1906 - m. Maxwell Silver, w. Ed Rose PD Reprint
He Was Nervous
College
PD Reprint
He'd Say Ooh-La-La! Wee Wee
Popular Song
1919 - m. Harry Ruby, w. George Jessel PD Reprint
He's A Cousin Of Mine
Popular Song
1906 - m. Chris Smith, Silvio Hein, w. Cecil Mack PD Reprint
He's Me Pal
Popular Song
1905 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Vincent Bryan V - I know a lad and when I feel bad He drives me troubles away. When he's your friend he's yours to de end, No matter what others may say. C - He's me pal, he's me pal, Dere ain't nobody else I can see. I know he's dead tough, but his love ain't no bluff, He'd share his last dollar with me. PD Reprint
He's the Lord Of Lords
Spiritual
V - I will not let you go my Lord, No one can work like Him; Until you come and bless my soul, No one can work like Him. C - Why, He's the Lord of lords, And the King of kings, Why Jesus Christ is the first and the last, No one can work like Him. PD Reprint
Health
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Health to All Good Fellows
College
PD Reprint
Hear De Lambs a-Cryin'
Spiritual
V - Our Savior spoke dese words so sweet: 'Oh, shepherd, feed-a my sheep', said 'Peter if ye love me feed my sheep', 'Oh, shepherd, feed-a my sheep' C - You hear de lambs a-cryin', Hear de lambs a-cryin' . . . Oh, shepherd, feed-a my sheep. PD Reprint
Hear Dem Bells
College
PD Reprint
Hear Me Praying
Spiritual
V - Like Peter when you said to him . . Feed my sheep . . .Feed my lambs C - Lord, oh, hear me praying, Lord, . . I want to be more holy ev'ry day. PD Reprint
Hear The Angels Singin'
Spiritual
V - We're marchin' up to Hebben, its a happy time, Hear de angels singin' C - Oh, sing all de way . . . sing all de way, my Lord, Hear de angels singin' PD Reprint
Hear Them Bells
Traditional
1880 PD Reprint
Hear Those Soothing Sounds
Traditional
Beethoven PD Reprint
Heart Bowed Down
Traditional
Balfe PD Reprint
Heart of a Sailor
Traditional
Adams PD Reprint
Heart of Oak
College
PD Reprint
Hearts Are Trumps
Popular Song
1899 - m. I.W. Young PD Reprint
Heartsease
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Heather Bell
Traditional
PD Reprint
Heave Away
Traditional
PD Reprint
Heaven Bell A-Ring
Traditional
PD Reprint
Heaven Bells
Traditional
PD Reprint
Heaven Bells Ringin' and I'm A-going Home
Spiritual
V - O de heav'n bells a-ringin' and my mother's going', goin' home . . . a climbin' up Zion's hill. C - O de heav'n bells a-ringin' and I'm a going', goin' home . . . a climbin' up Zion's hill. PD Reprint
Heaven Bells Ringin' In My Soul
Spiritual
V - Nobody knows who I am . . Walked around from door to door, What to do I did not know. Heav'n bells a-ringin' in my soul! C - O de heav'n bells ringin'! De sing sol singin'! Heav'n bells a-ringin' in my soul! PD Reprint
Heavenly Thoughts
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Heavens Resound
Traditional
m. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)w. Andreas Hofer V - The heav'ns resound with His praises eternal, In might and glory they combine PD Reprint
Heavy Heart
Traditional
PD Reprint
Heidelberg
College
N - Heidelberg University PD Reprint
Heidelberg (Stein Song)
Popular Song
1902 - m. Gustav Luders, w. Frank Pixley PD Reprint
Heidenroslein
Traditional
w. 1771, m - w. Goethe, m. Heinrich Werner PD Reprint
Heil dir im Siegerkranz
Traditional
1790 - w. Heinrich Harries, m. Henry Carey PD Reprint
Heimliche liebe
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hell Cat March
College
PD Reprint
Hello Frisco Hello
Popular Song
1915 - m. Louis A. Hirscho, w. Gene Buck PD Reprint
Hello, Hawaii, How Are You
Popular Song
1915 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. Bert Kalmar, Edgar Leslie PD Reprint
Hello! Summer !
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Helmaredi
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Diamonds
Traditional
1894 PD Reprint
Her Mother Came Too
Popular Song
m. Ivor Novello, w. Dion Titheradge V - I seem to be the victim of a cruel jest, It dogs my footsteps with the girl I love the best. She's just the sweeting thing that I have known, But still we never get the chance to be alone. C - We lunch at Maxim's-And her mother comes too! How large a snack seems-When her mother comes too! PD Reprint
Her Name Is Rose
Popular Song
1899 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Irene Franklin PD Reprint
Here Come the Doggone Elis
College
PD Reprint
Here Come the Elis
College
PD Reprint
Here Comes My Daddy Now
Popular Song
1912 - m. Lewis F. Muir, w. L. Wolfe Gilbert PD Reprint
Here we are
Traditional
1863 - Dan Emmett PD Reprint
Here We Come Gath'ring Nuts in May
Traditional
PD Reprint
Here We Go Around This Ring
Traditional
PD Reprint
Here'a a Health to King Charles
College
PD Reprint
Here's a Health Unto His Majesty
Traditional
Traditional PD Reprint
Here's to Nassau Hall
College
PD Reprint
Here's To You
College
PD Reprint
Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry
Popular Song
1903 - m. Nat Osborne, w. Bartley Costello PD Reprint
Herne Bay Dance
Traditional
1836 PD Reprint
Hey Boys Up Go We
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Hey Rube!
Traditional
1891 PD Reprint
Hickory Reel
Traditional
PD Reprint
Higgilty Piggilty
Children
V - Higgilty Piggilty, my black hen. She lays eggs for gentlemen. PD Reprint
High Barbaree
Traditional
1801 PD Reprint
High Daddy
Traditional
1863 - Dan Emmett PD Reprint
High Germany
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hike Song of 1917
College
PD Reprint
Hillsdale and the Blue
College
N - Hillsdale College PD Reprint
Hindenburg Blues
Traditional
1918 - Sanders Reynolds PD Reprint
Hindustan
Popular Song
1918 - m. Harold Weeks, w. Oliver G. Wallace PD Reprint
Hip Hobart
College
N - Hobart College PD Reprint
His Last Thoughts Were of You
Traditional
1894 PD Reprint
Hither Dear Husband
Traditional
1728 - John Gay PD Reprint
Ho! Every Sleeper Waken
Traditional
V - H0! Ev'ry sleeper waken! The sun is in the sky. Com, rise, come come, And hear the cuckoo cry. Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Wake up! Be spry! N - Round PD Reprint
Ho! Westward Ho!
Traditional
1850 - Ossian Dodge PD Reprint
Hobson's Reel
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hog-Drivers We Air (And Kin We Git Lodgin' Here?)
Traditional
PD Reprint
Holborn March
Traditional
1742 PD Reprint
Hold Me
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. Art Hickman, Ben Black V - I must confess that I like you But there is something amiss. Tell me did it ever strike you That a maid like a man to steal a kiss C - Hold me Fold me right in your arms. It's your affection I crave. Tease me Squeeze me tight in your arms Until I promise to behave. PD Reprint
Hold Out to the End
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hold the Fort
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hold the Wind (I Got My Jesus)
Spiritual
V - I got my Jesus, going to hold Him fast, Hold the wind, Don't let it blow. C - Hold the wind! Hold the wind! . . . Don't let it blow! PD Reprint
Hold the Wind (Talk About Me)
Spiritual
V - Talk about me just as much as you please, Hold the wind, don't let it blow C - Hold the wind! Hold the wind! . . Don't let it blow! PD Reprint
Hold Your Light
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hole in the Wall
Traditional
1698 PD Reprint
Holy Bible
Spiritual
V - Holy Bible, Holy Bible . . . book divine, book divine. C - Before I'd be a slave, I'd be buried in my grave, And go home to my Father and be saved. PD Reprint
Holy Ghost with Light Divine
Traditional
Gottschalk PD Reprint
Holy Moses
Traditional
Cy Seymour PD Reprint
Holy Night
Children
V - Holy night, peaceful night, Thro' the darkness beams a light, Yonder where they sweet vigils keep PD Reprint
Holyoke
College
N - Mount Holyoke College PD Reprint
Home Again Blues
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. Harrt Akst, Irving Berlin PD Reprint
Home Home Can I Forget Thee?
Children
V - Home, home, can I forget thee? Dear, dear, dearly lov'd home. C - Home, home, home, home, dearest and happiest home. PD Reprint
Home to our Mountains
Traditional
Verdi PD Reprint
Home Waltz
Traditional
PD Reprint
Homeland
Traditional
Sullivan PD Reprint
Homesick
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. Irving Berlin PD Reprint
Homeward Bound
Traditional
w. W.F. Warren, m. C.S. Harrison V - Out on an ocean all boundless we ride, We're homeward bound, homeward bound; Tossed on the waves of a rough, restless tide PD Reprint
Honey Boy
Popular Song
1907 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Jack Norworth PD Reprint
Honey Man
Popular Song
m. Al Piantadosi, w. Joe McCarthy PD Reprint
Honey Rag
Traditional
1909 - Egbert Van Alstyne PD Reprint
Honeymoon March
Traditional
1894 PD Reprint
Hoo-oo Ain't You Coming' Out Tonight
Popular Song
1907 - w.m. Herbert Ingraham PD Reprint
Hoop de Dooden Do
Traditional
Nish V - Some hundred years ago or so, Good ole Massa set me free PD Reprint
Hoorah for the Army Team
College
PD Reprint
Hop-Picker's Feast
Traditional
1786 PD Reprint
Hope
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Hope Waltz
Traditional
PD Reprint
Horseshoe Medley
College
PD Reprint
Horseshoe Rag
Traditional
Julia Lee Niebergall PD Reprint
Horsheshoe Song
College
PD Reprint
Hot Chocolate Rag
Traditional
1908 - Malvin A. Franklin, Arthur Lange PD Reprint
Hot-House Rag
Traditional
1914 - Paul Pratt PD Reprint
Hottentot Love Song
Popular Song
1906 - w.m. Silvio Hein PD Reprint
Hours There Were
Traditional
PD Reprint
How Can I Bear to Leave Thee
College
PD Reprint
How Can I Leave Thee
Traditional
PD Reprint
How Can I Leave Thee !
Children
German Folk Song V - How can I leave thee! How can I from thee part! Thou only hast my heart PD Reprint
How Can I Leave Thee ?
College
PD Reprint
How Dry I Am
Popular Song
1921 - m. Tom A. Johnstone, w. Will B. Johnstone PD Reprint
How Firm a Foundation
Hymn
PD Reprint
How Gentle God's Commands
Children
m. H.G. Nageli, w. P. Doddridge V - How gentle God's commands! How kind His precepts are! Come cast your burdens on the Lord PD Reprint
How Happy is the Child
Children
M. Bruck V - How happy is the child who hear, Instruction's warning voice, And who celestial wisdom makes, His early only choice. PD Reprint
How Long, Watchman
Spiritual
V - How long did it rain? Can anyone tell? For forty days and nights it fell. How long watch-a-man, How long? C - O how long watch-a-man? O how long watch-a-man? O how long watch-a-man? PD Reprint
How the Wind Blows
Children
V - The wind blows high, The wind blows low; Hither and thither, to and fro; My cradle hands low from the broad branching tree PD Reprint
How Well I Remember
College
PD Reprint
How'd You Like To Be My Daddy?
Popular Song
1918 - m. Ted Snyder, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young PD Reprint
How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?
Popular Song
1916 - m. Albert Gumble, w. Jack Yellen PD Reprint
Howdy
Traditional
V - So when we meet together, together, together, No matter what the weather, Or what the time of day C - Howdy-do Hen? Howdy-do Jen? PD Reprint
Huckleberry Finn
Popular Song
1917 - w.m. Cliff Hess, Sam Lewis, Joe Young PD Reprint
Hull's Victory
Traditional
PD Reprint
Humming
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Louis Breau, Ray7 Henderson PD Reprint
Humming Top
Children
V - Hum hum goes my top, when on the ground I let it drop PD Reprint
Hungarian Dance No. 7
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Hungarian Dances ~ Kelar
Traditional
Before 185 - Bela Kelar PD Reprint
Hungarian Polka
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hungarian Rag
Traditional
1913 - Julius Lenzberg PD Reprint
Hunsdon House
Traditional
1665 PD Reprint
Hunt is Up
Traditional
Traditional PD Reprint
Hunt the Squirrel
Traditional
1709 PD Reprint
Hunter's Song
Children
German Air V - With his bow and arrow, glist'ning in the sun, Comes the jolly huntsman, Just as day's begun C - La la la, la la la, la la la, la PD Reprint
Hunters of Kentucky
Traditional
1821 - w. Samuel Woodworth, Tune: 'The Unfortunate Miss Bailey' V - Ye gentlemen and ladies fair who grace this famous city, Just listen if you've time to spare while I rehearse a ditty. C - O Kentucky, the Hunters of Kentucky. O Kentucky, the Hunters of Kentucky N - a.k.a. Battle of New Orleans and Half Horse and Half Aligator. Written to commemorate Andrew Jackson's victory over the Britishin 1821. PD Reprint
Hunters' Chorus
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hunting for a City
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hunting for the Lord
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hurlgate Waltz
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hurrah For Baffin's Bay
Popular Song
1903 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Vincent Bryan PD Reprint
Hurrah for the Banner
Traditional
PD Reprint
Hurrah for Zeta Psi
College
PD Reprint
Hursley LM
Traditional
Monk PD Reprint
Hush My Babe
Children
J.J. Rousseau V - Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard they bed, PD Reprint
Hush-a-by, Darling
Traditional
PD Reprint
Huttelein Cottage Fair
College
PD Reprint
Hyacinth Rag
Traditional
1911 - George Botsford PD Reprint
Hymn to College Hill
College
N - Tufts College PD Reprint
Hymns Of The Old Church Choir
Popular Song
1907 - m. Alfred Solman, w. Arthur Lamb PD Reprint
Hypocrite and the Concubine
Traditional
PD Reprint
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