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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.
N.S.U. So Gay
College
N - Nevada State University PD Reprint
N'Everything
Popular Song
1917 - w.m. Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva, Gus Kahn PD Reprint
Nae Mair We'll Meet Again
Traditional
PD Reprint
Nancy Brown
Popular Song
1901 - w.m. Clifton Crawford PD Reprint
Nancy Lee
Traditional
m. Stephen Adams, pseudonymn of Michael Maybrick, w. Frederick E. Weatherly V - Of all the wives as e'er you know, Yeo-ho! lads! There's none like Nancy Lee, I trow, Yeo-ho! C - The sailor's wife the sailor's star shall be, The sailor's wife his star shall be. PD Reprint
Nappy Lee
Traditional
Adams PD Reprint
Nassau Hall
College
PD Reprint
Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an?
Popular Song
1916 - w.m. James Kendis PD Reprint
National, Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands
Patriotic
1890 - m. John Philip Sousa PD Reprint
Natural History
Children
V - What are little boys made of? Frogs and snails and puppy dog's tails, And that are little boys made of. PD Reprint
Naughty Marietta
Traditional
PD Reprint
Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!
Popular Song
1916 - m. Nat Vincent, w. Joe Goodwin, William Tracey PD Reprint
Navajo
Popular Song
1903 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Harry H. Williams PD Reprint
Navy Blue and White
College
N - Marietta College PD Reprint
Navy We Greet you
College
PD Reprint
Neal's Maggot
Traditional
1742 PD Reprint
Neapolitan Cradle Song
Children
V - Sleep on. O Baby dearest, Thou darling of my heart, Thy mother watcheth near thee, All her love and joy thou art! PD Reprint
Neapolitan Love Song
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Near the Cross
Traditional
w. Fanny J. Crosby, m. W.H. Doane V - Jesus keep me near the cross PD Reprint
Neath the Elms
College
N - Trinity College PD Reprint
Neath the Elms of Dear Old Yale
College
N - Yale University PD Reprint
Neath the South Sea Moon
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. Gene Buck, Louis Hirsch, Dave Stamper PD Reprint
Neath the Southern Moon
Traditional
PD Reprint
Needle's Eye
Traditional
PD Reprint
Nellie Kelly, I Love You
Popular Song
1922 - w.m. George M. Cohan P - Little Nellie Kelly - 1922, PD Reprint
Nellie Was a Lady
Spiritual
V - Down on the Mississippi floating, Long time I trabbel o'er the way C - Nellie was a lady, last night she died; Toll de bell for lubly Nell, my dark Virginia bride. PD Reprint
Nelly Was a Lady
Traditional
1849 - Stephen Colllins Foster PD Reprint
Never Love Thee More
Traditional
1686 PD Reprint
Never Said a Mumblin' Word
Spiritual
1865 V - They crucified my Lord an' He never said a mumbalin' word; Not a word, not a word, not a word. PD Reprint
Never Weatherbeaten Sail
Traditional
Early 1600 - Thomas Campion PD Reprint
Never, Never, Never
Popular Song
1856 - m. Caroline Rive, w. Capt. C.W. Cutter PD Reprint
New Born Again
Spiritual
V - I found free grace and dying love, I'm newborn again. Been long time a-talking 'bout my trials here below. Free grace, free grace. C - Sinner, Free grace, free grace, I'm a newborn again So glad! so Glad! PD Reprint
New Born Again (Hallelujah)
Spiritual
V - Free grace, free grace! free grace, sinner! C - Hallelujah, hallelujah! Newborn again, Been a long time talkin' Bout a starint' on de way. PD Reprint
New Burying Ground
Spiritual
V - O, my Lord, good and kind, Take the little babe, Leave its mother behind. C - Judgment day! God's a callin'! Stars a-fallin'! Chariot's comin' down To the new buryin' ground! . . . . N - 8 verses use phrases from many, many different spirituals. PD Reprint
New College Medley
College
PD Reprint
New Emancipation Song
Traditional
1864 - w. R A T, m. Mrs. Parkhurst V - Oh! Give the slaves their freedon, You surely do not need them, And no longer clothe and feed them, In these United States. C - For they all sigh for freedom, They all sigh for freedom, For they all sigh for freedom in these United States PD Reprint
New Era Rag
Traditional
James Scott PD Reprint
New Harmony Hornpipe
Traditional
1823 PD Reprint
New Jersee
College
PD Reprint
New Jerusalem
Traditional
PD Reprint
New Orleans
Traditional
1916 - w.m. George W. Thomas V - Old New Orleans is a great big old Southern town where hospitality you will surely find, The population there. Is very fair, with ev'ry thing they do they all seem to be true C - Glide, Slide, Dance, Prance, Hop, Stop, um, um. I can never get tired, Dancing them Hop Scop Blues Girls, Once more you slide, glide, Prance, Dance. PD Reprint
New Woman
College
PD Reprint
New Year Carol
Children
Alfred S. Gatty V - Come thou with me, And climb the moor, Its path is free, Now night is o'er; C - O Haiul to thee, Hail! New Year with rosy wings; Touch thou the world and bid the sacred springs PD Reprint
New Year Song
Children
Alfred S. Gatty V - Upon the first day of the year, it seems to me, my children dear, That if you cou,d you really shoud, Be very good C - Until this very day next year, this very day next year. PD Reprint
New Year's Day in the Morning
Traditional
1750 PD Reprint
New Year's Eve
Traditional
1830 PD Reprint
Newcastler
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Newgate
College
PD Reprint
News from Tripoli
Traditional
1703 PD Reprint
News of the Victory
Traditional
1820 PD Reprint
Next To Your Mother, Who Do You Love?
Popular Song
1909 - m. Ted Snyder, w. Irving Berlin PD Reprint
Night on Bald Mountain A Mussorgsky
Traditional
1887 PD Reprint
Night Wind
Popular Song
PD Reprint
Night's Shade No Longer Rossini
Traditional
1890 PD Reprint
Nights Of Gladness
Popular Song
1913 - m. Charles Ancliff, w. Ballard MacDonald PD Reprint
Nineteen Birds
Children
V - Nineteen birds and one bird more, Just make twenty and that's a score. PD Reprint
No 1 Hook and Ladder Quickstep
Traditional
1853 PD Reprint
No Irish Need Apply
Traditional
PD Reprint
No Man Can Hinder Me
Traditional
PD Reprint
No More Auction Block
Traditional
PD Reprint
No More Rain Fall for Wet You
Traditional
PD Reprint
No Never No
Traditional
1885 PD Reprint
No One to Love
Traditional
1885 - w. A.H.G. Richardson V - No one to love, none to caress, Roaming along through this world's wilderness PD Reprint
No Sounds from the City Are Heard
Traditional
PD Reprint
No Wedding Bells For Me
Popular Song
1906 - m. Seymour Furth, w. Will Heelan, Ed Moran PD Reprint
Noble Dickinsonia
College
N - Dickinson College PD Reprint
Nobody
Popular Song
1905 - m. Bert Williams, w. Alex Rogers PD Reprint
Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
Spiritual
V - Brothers will you pray for me? Sisters will you pray for me? Mothers will you pray for me, And help me to drive old Satan away? C - Nobdy knows the trouble I see, Lord, Nobody knows the trouble I see; nobody know the trouble I see Lord, Nobody knows like Jesus. PD Reprint
Nobody Knows, And Nobody Seems To Care
Popular Song
1919 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - I'm sad and lonely, there's a good reason why. Nobody cares about me That's why I sad as can be. I long for some one, somebody yes indeed, Lovin' kisses from one, Is exactly what I need. C - Many's the time I feel so lonesome But nobody knows, And nobody care. I've grown so tired of being by my 'own some' I want somebody to hug PD Reprint
Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares
Popular Song
1909 - w.m. Charles K. Harris PD Reprint
Nobody Lied
Popular Song
1922 - m. J. Edwin Weber, w. Karyl Norman, Hyatt Berry PD Reprint
Nobody's Jig
Traditional
1728 PD Reprint
Nobody's Little Girl
Popular Song
1907 - m. Theordore F. Morse, w. Jack Drislane PD Reprint
Nobody's Looking But The Owl And The Moon
Popular Song
1901 - m. J. Rosamond Johnson, w. Bob Cole PD Reprint
Nocturne op 9 no 2
Traditional
1832 - Chopin PD Reprint
None But the Lonely Heart
Traditional
1869 - Tchaikovsky PD Reprint
Nonesuch
Traditional
1650 PD Reprint
Nonpareil
Traditional
1907 - Scott Joplin PD Reprint
Nora O'Neal
Traditional
1885 - Hays PD Reprint
Norma Grand March
Traditional
1849 PD Reprint
North Wind
Children
Alfred S. Gaty V - When the north wind keenly blows, Very red is Baby;s nose. Very cold are Baby's toes PD Reprint
North Wind Doth Blow
Children
V - The North wind doth blow, and we shall have snow PD Reprint
Northern Nancy
Traditional
1721 PD Reprint
Norwalk
Traditional
1890 - L.M. Luse PD Reprint
Norway
Popular Song
1915 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Joe McCarthy PD Reprint
Norwegian Dance
Traditional
1881 - Grieg PD Reprint
Not Because Your Hair Is Curly
Popular Song
1906 - w.m. Bob Adams PD Reprint
Not Very Long Ago
Popular Song
1900 PD Reprint
Not Weary Yet
Traditional
PD Reprint
Nothing - But Another Girl
College
PD Reprint
Nothing But a Plain Old Soldier
Traditional
1863 - Stephen Colllins Foster PD Reprint
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Children
V - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep PD Reprint
Now Is the Month of Maying
Traditional
Traditional PD Reprint
Now the Day is Over
Hymn
J. Barnby V - Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening, Steal across the sky. PD Reprint
Number One
Traditional
Est 1900 PD Reprint
Nun leb wohl du kleine Gasse
Traditional
w. 1833, m - w. A.G Schlippenbach, m. Silcher PD Reprint
Nur in Deutschland!
Traditional
w. 1824, m - w. H. von Fallersleben, m. J.W. Lyra PD Reprint
Nurse's Song
Children
V - Dance a baby, diddy, What can Mammy do wid 'e? Sit in a lap, Give it some pap, And dance a baby diddy. PD Reprint
Nymph Divine
Traditional
1728 PD Reprint
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