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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.
J.J.J. Rag
Traditional
PD Reprint
Jack A Lent
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Jack Frost
Children
V - See! On the windows old, Jack Frost has come, the winter to stay, Isn't it pretty to see how he marks up the windows with lace work each day. PD Reprint
Jack Hall
Traditional
PD Reprint
Jack O'Hazeldean
Traditional
w. Sir Walter Scott, m.Traditional Irish PD Reprint
Jack of Spades
Popular Song
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Jack on de green
Traditional
1863 - Dan Emmett PD Reprint
Jack Sprat
Traditional
1765 PD Reprint
Jack Spratt
Children
V - Jack Spratt could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; PD Reprint
Jack Tar
Patriotic
1903 - m. John Philip Sousa PD Reprint
Jack's Farewell
Traditional
1701 PD Reprint
Jack's Health
Traditional
1686 PD Reprint
Jack's Maggot
Traditional
1703 PD Reprint
Jackson's Hornpipe
Traditional
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Jacob Hall's Jig
Traditional
1695 PD Reprint
Jacob's Ladder (I Want to Climb Up Jacob's Ladder)
Traditional
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Jacqueminots Waltzes
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Jail Keys All Rattl'ing Around You
Traditional
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Jamaica
Traditional
1670 PD Reprint
Jamie's on the Stormy Sea
Traditional
Covert PD Reprint
Jaunting Car
Traditional
Before 186 PD Reprint
Java March
Traditional
PD Reprint
Jazz Babies' Ball
Popular Song
1920 - m. Maceo Pinkard, w. Charles Bayha V - Honey get your dancin' shoes We ain't go no time to lose--There's a swell affair At that dancin' hall Come on babe, let's 'wobble' down To the Jazz Babies' Ball C - First we'll dance with dignity Then we'll shake a wicked knee Oh! Oh! Let's go Mister Jazz will swing his bow PD Reprint
Jazz Baby
Popular Song
1919 - m. M.J. Jerome, w. Blanche Merrill V - My daddy was a ragtime trombone player, My mammy was a ragtime cabareter, They met one day at a tango tea. There was a syncopated wedding, and then came me! C - I'm a jazz baby, I want to be jazzing all the time; There's something in the tone of a saxophone, That makes me do a little wiggle all my own PD Reprint
Jazzing The Blues Away
Popular Song
1918 - m. Dick Heinrich, w. Jeff Branen PD Reprint
Jean
Popular Song
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Jean o' Bethelnie
Traditional
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Jeannette and Jeannot
Traditional
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Jeff in Petticoats
Traditional
1865 - Cooper, Tucker PD Reprint
Jefferson and Liberty
Traditional
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Jehovah, Hallelujah
Traditional
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Jemima
College
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Jennie Lee
Popular Song
1902 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Arthur Lamb PD Reprint
Jenny Come Tie My Cravat
Traditional
1690 PD Reprint
Jenny Pluck Pears
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Jenny's Mantle
Traditional
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Jerry, Go and Oil that Car
Traditional
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Jersey Cotillion
Traditional
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Jerusalem
Traditional
m. Henry Parker, w. Nella V - From out their peaceful village Along the sunlit way, The Price of Peace leads onward, A pilgrim band this day/ C - Lord, now as we meet Thee, Sing we Hosanna, Saviour, we greet Thee, Lord and King. PD Reprint
Jerusalem Morning
College
PD Reprint
Jerusalem the Golden
Hymn
Alex Ewing V - Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blest, PD Reprint
Jes Gwine Ober In De Heabenlye Lan'
Spiritual
V - You can hinder me here, but you can't do it there, For He sits in de Heavens and He answers prayer. 'Jes gwine ober in de heabenlye lan'! C - De Heabenlye lan', Heabenlye lan', 'Jes gwine ober in de heabenlye lan'! PD Reprint
Jesus Ain't Comin' Here T' Die No More
Spiritual
V - Virgin Mary had one son, The cruel Jews had him hung. C - But He ain't comin' here t' die no mo', Ain't comin' here t' die no mo'. PD Reprint
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
Traditional
w. Tr. Tate and Brady, m. Lydia Davidica PD Reprint
Jesus Is Risen From the Dead
Spiritual
V - Go, tell Mary and Martha . . . Yes, Jesus is risen from the dead. C - In-a this-a band we have sweet music . . . Jesus is risen from the dead. PD Reprint
Jesus Lover of My Soul
Hymn
S. B. Marsh V - Jesus lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly PD Reprint
Jesus on the Waterside
Traditional
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Jesus Shall Reign Wheree'er the Sun
Traditional
w. Isaac Watts, m. J. Hatton PD Reprint
Jesus, Won't You Come By-and-By
Traditional
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Jesus! the Very Thought of Thee
Traditional
Dyken PD Reprint
Jew's Daughter
Traditional
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Jilted
College
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Jim Crack CornSee The Blue Tail Fly
Jim Crow
Traditional
1830 - w.m. Thomas Dartmouth Rice V - Come listen all you galls and boys I's jist from Tucky-hoe. I'm goin to sing a little song, My name's Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow. N - Published in 1840s with 44 verses. PD Reprint
Jim Judson (From The Town Of Hackensack)
Popular Song
1905 - w.m. Paul Dresser PD Reprint
Jimmy Pride Of Newspaper Row
Popular Song
1900 - w.m. A. Baldwin Sloane PD Reprint
Jimmy Valentine
Popular Song
1911 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Edward Madden PD Reprint
Jine 'Em
Traditional
PD Reprint
Jinx Rag
Traditional
L.P. Gibson PD Reprint
Job of Journeywork
Traditional
1893 PD Reprint
Jock o' Hazeldean
Traditional
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Jockey
Traditional
1688 PD Reprint
Joe Hill
Traditional
PD Reprint
John Barleycorn
Folk Song
1568 V - There were three kings came from the west, Their victory to try; And they have taken a solemn oath, John Barleycorn should die. C - Fol the dol the did-i-ay, Fol the dol the did-i-ay-ge-wo. PD Reprint
John D. Rockerfeller
College
N - University of Chicago PD Reprint
John Peel
Traditional
1820 PD Reprint
John Saw
Spiritual
V - Worthy, worthy is the Lamb, is the Lamb . . . Settin' on de golden altar. C - John saw, Oh, John saw, John saw de holy number, Settin' on de golden altar. PD Reprint
John, John of the Holy Order
Traditional
PD Reprint
Johnnie Cope
Traditional
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Johnny Come Down to Hilo
Traditional
Broadside PD Reprint
Johnny Get Your Gun
Traditional
1886 PD Reprint
Johnny Goolar
Traditional
1859 - Dan Emmett PD Reprint
Johnny Had a Little Dog
Children
V - Johnny had a little dog, And Bingo was his name, sir, B I N G O go, Bingo was his name, sir. PD Reprint
Johnny Harvard
College
N - harvard university PD Reprint
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Traditional
Traditional Irish V - I'll sell my rock, I'll sell my reel, When my flax is spun, I'll sell my wheel, To buy my love a sword of steel, Oh, Johnny has gone for a soldier. N - Tune: Irish Folk Song Shule Aroon. Known during U.S. Revolutionary War. Also U.S. Civil War. PD Reprint
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Traditional
Traditional Irish PD Reprint
Johnny is my Darling
Traditional
1865 PD Reprint
Johnny Sands
Traditional
Sinclair V - A man whose name was Johnny Sands Had married Betty Hague, And thought she brought him gold and land, She proved a terrible plague PD Reprint
Johnny Schmoker
Traditional
1863 PD Reprint
Johnson Rag
Traditional
1917 - Henry Kleinkauf, Guy Hall PD Reprint
Join the Angel Band
Traditional
PD Reprint
Jollity
College
PD Reprint
Jolly Boating Weather
College
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Jolly Cooper
Traditional
1713 PD Reprint
Jolly D.K.E.
College
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Jolly Dog's Polka
Traditional
PD Reprint
Jolly Golfing Weather
College
PD Reprint
Jolly Huntsman
Children
V - The jolly huntsman rides his horse thro' all the forest green, As happy as can be. C - Hurrah, Hurrah, the holly huntsman's life for me, he sing so merrily. PD Reprint
Jolly Me Along
Popular Song
1904 - m. Albert Gumble, w. C.P. McDonald PD Reprint
Jolly Miller
Children
Old English V - There was a jolly miller once lived on the river Dee, He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark more blithe than he, C - I care for nobody, no, not I, and nobody cares for me. PD Reprint
Jolly Tester
Children
V - Oh, my little six pence, my pretty little six pence, I love six pence better than my life; PD Reprint
Jolly Times Galop
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Jordan Am a Hard Road to Trabbel
Traditional
w. Dan Emmett, m. T.F. Briggs PD Reprint
Jordan's Mills
Traditional
PD Reprint
Josephine My Jo
Traditional
1901 PD Reprint
Joys of Love (Plaisir d'Amour)
Popular Song
w. 1890's, - w. English, m. French V - Pleasures of love last but a moment, Sorrows of love last while we live.
Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment. Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.
C - In one brief hour the joys of love depart; The grief of love to the end enduring. N - a.k.a. Joy of Love, Plaisir d'amour
PD Reprint
Judgement Day Is a-Rollin' Around
Spiritual
V - I've a good ole mudder in de heaven, my Lord, Oh, how I long to go dere too. C - Judgment, Judgment, Judgment day is a-rolling around, Judgement, Judgement, Oh, how I long to go. PD Reprint
Juice of the Barley
Traditional
1690 PD Reprint
July Song
Children
Alfred S. Gatty V - In the month of hot July, All things are quite boiling, Red hot sun and cloudless sky, Flow'rs and shrubs are spoiling C - Nature calls, but calls in vain, Sadly is she crying PD Reprint
Jump Jim Crow
Traditional
1828 - 1917, w. Rida Johnson Young, m. Sigmund Romberg V - It's a dance that' s rather shocking To a spinster or a frump, For it's apt to show your stocking When you make the little jimp. C - Jump, jump, oh jump, Jim Crow! Take a little twirl and around you go! Slide, slide, and point your toe, You're as naughty as a devil When you jump, Jim Crow! N - Above lyrics are a 1917 popular song. Beginning in the late 1920's, many versions of 'Jim Crow' and 'Jump Jim Crow' with varying words and tunes began to appear. PD Reprint
Jungle Time
Traditional
E. Phillip Severin PD Reprint
Junk Man Rag
Traditional
1913 - C. Luckyth Roberts PD Reprint
Juno and Pallas
Traditional
1727 PD Reprint
Just A Dream at Dawn
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Just A Gleam Of Heaven In Her Eyes
Popular Song
1904 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
Just a Little House of Love
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Just A Little Love Song
Popular Song
1921 - m. Joe Cooper, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young PD Reprint
Just A Little Rocking Chair And You
Popular Song
1905 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Bert Fitzgibbon, Jack Drislane PD Reprint
Just A Song At TwilightSee Love's Old Sweet Song
Just A Thinkin' O' You
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Just A-Wearyin' for You
Traditional
1901 PD Reprint
Just As I Am
Hymn
1835 - w. Charlotte Elliott, m. Wm.B. Bradbury V - Just as I am, without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thous bidd'st me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come! I come! C - O Lamb of God, I come! I come! PD Reprint
Just Ask Me
Traditional
Charles Hunter PD Reprint
Just Because I Loved You So
Popular Song
1907 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes
Popular Song
1900 - w.m. John Queen, Hughie Cannon PD Reprint
Just For A Girl
Popular Song
1910 - m. Ernest Ball, w. Ren Sheilds PD Reprint
Just for Princeton
College
PD Reprint
Just Kiss Yourself Goodbye
Popular Song
1902 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome PD Reprint
Just Like A Gypsy
Popular Song
1919 - w.m. Seymour B. Simon, Nora Bayes PD Reprint
Just Like A Rainbow
Popular Song
1921 - w.m. Robert A. King, Ted FioRito PD Reprint
Just Like Washington Crossed The Delaware
Popular Song
1918 - m. George W. Meyer, w. Howard Johnson PD Reprint
Just Love
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Just Next Door
Popular Song
1902 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
Just Now
Traditional
PD Reprint
Just One Girl
Traditional
1898 PD Reprint
Just One Kiss
Popular Song
1900 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
Just One Word Of Consolation
Popular Song
1906 - m. Tom Lemonier, w. Frank Williams PD Reprint
Just Some One
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Just Someone
Popular Song
1908 - w.m. Will R. Anderson PD Reprint
Just Tell Them That You Saw Me
Traditional
1895 PD Reprint
Just the Kind of Girl
Popular Song
1917 PD Reprint
Just Try to Picture Me Back Home in Tennessee
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Just When I Needed You Most
Popular Song
1900 - w.m. William B. Gray PD Reprint
Just You
Popular Song
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Just-A-Wearying For You
Popular Song
1901 - m. Frank Stanton, w. Carrie Jacobs Bond PD Reprint
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