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Faded Coat of Blue
Traditional
McNaughton V - My brave lad sleeps in his faded coat of blue; In a lonely grave unknown lies the heart that beat so true. C - No more the bugle calls the weary one, Rest, noble spirit, in thy grave unknown.
Faded Love Letters
Popular Song
1923 - m. Luella Lockwood Moore (1864-1927), William E. Dulmage (1883-1953), w. Richard W. Pascoe (1888-1968) V - When all the world seems so merry and bright, I'm dreaming of days past recall, Wond'ring if someone can see me tonight, As the tears from my eyes gently fall. C - Faded old love letters, They mean the world to me, Each night I read them over, They are my rosary.
Fair Harvard
Traditional
Fair Young Mary
Traditional
Fairy Lullaby
Traditional
Fairy Moonlight
Traditional
Fairy's Love song
Traditional
Traditional Old Celtic Melody N - Celtic 'Tha Mi Sgith', a.k.a. 'Cutting Ferns'
Faith of Our Fathers
Hymn
w. Frederick W. Farber
Fallen Leaf
Popular Song
1922 - m. Frederic Knight Logan, w. Virginia K. Logan V - Dimly fade the stars at dawn, Softly glows the morning's ray, Thru the pines the West wind blows, Over mountains gray. C - Thru the forest Lone I'm roaming, My heart's calling, Fallen Leaf, With the dawning, I am coming To thy lodge, Fallen Leaf.
Fandango
Traditional
1774
Fanny Blair
Traditional
Fantasie Impromptu
Traditional
1855 - Chopin
Far Above Cayuga's Waters
Traditional
1860 V - Far above Cayuga's water, 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! N - Frequently used as tune for college and high school Alma Mater
Far Away, Far Away
Traditional
Fare Thee Well, Mollie Darling
Popular Song
1902 - m. Kerry Mills, w. Will D. Cobb
Fare Ye Well
Traditional
Farewell (La Partida)
Traditional
1907
Farewell Blues
Popular Song
1923 - w.m. Rappolo ~ Leon Rappolo V - Sadness just makes me sigh. I've come to say goodbye. Altho I go I've got those farewell blues. C - Those farewell blues make me years That parting kiss seems to burn. Farewell dearie Some day I will return..
Farewell Frances
Traditional
1830
Farewell Happiness [Addio Felicita]
Popular Song
1927 - w. B.U. Canetti, m. Nicola Valente
Farewell My Overcoat
College
Farewell My Own Sullivan
Traditional
Farewell through the Puddle
Traditional
Farewell to Happiness
Traditional
Farewell to the Forest
Traditional
1890 - Mendelssohn
Farm Yard Blues
Traditional
1917 - Chris Smith, Henry Troy
Farmer in the Dell
Children
1883 V - The farmer in the dell, The farmer in the dell, High on the derry oh, The farmer in the dell.
Farmer Is the Man
Traditional
Fas', Fas' World
Popular Song
Fascinating Rhythm
Popular Song
1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. P - Lady Be Good V - Got a little rhythm. A rhythm, a rhythm That Pit-a-pats through my brain. So darn persistent, The day isn't distant When it'll drive me insane. C - Fascinating Rhythm. You've got me on the go! Fascinating Rhythm I'm all aquiver. What a mess you're making! The neighbors want to know why I'm always shaking Just like a flivver.
Fascination Waltz
Popular Song
1905 - m. F.D. Marchetti, w. Maurice de Feraudy V - Jet'ai rencontre simplement, Et tu n'as rien fair pour cher cher a me plaire N - a.k.a. Fascination and Fascination Valse
Fascinator
Traditional
James Scott
Father Dear Father Come Home with Me Now
Traditional
1864 - Henry Clay Work
Favorite
Ragtime, Music Hall
1904 - Scott Joplin
Feather Your Nest
Popular Song
1920 - w.m. James Kendis, James Brockman, Howard Johnson
Feather Your Next
Popular Song
Felicity Rag
Traditional
1911 - Scott Joplin, Scott Hayden
Felix Rag
Traditional
Female Sailor
Traditional
1706
Fest March
Traditional
Fete Champetre
Traditional
1777
Fiddle and I
Children
A. Goodeve V - Ah! It was gay, night and day, fair and cloudy weather, fiddle and I
Fiddle Dee Dee
Traditional
1765
Fiddle Faddle
Traditional
Fidgety Feet
Popular Song
1926 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin
Fido Is A Hot Dog Now
Popular Song
1914 - m. Raymond Walker, w. Charles McCarron, Thomas J. Gray
Field of Monterey
Traditional
Sullivan
Fields in Spring
Traditional
Fifteen Miles on the Erie CanalSee Low Bridge Everybody Down
Fifty Million Frenchmen [Can't Be Wrong]
Popular Song
1927 - w. Willie Rasking & Billy Rose, m. Fred Fisher
Fig Leaf Rag
Ragtime, Music Hall
1908 - Scott Joplin
Fighting On
Spiritual
V - Fightin on, Hallelujah! We are almost down to the shore . . . Hallelujah to the Lamb, Jesus died for eb'ry man. C - We are almost down to the shore. He died for you, He died for me, He died to save de whole world free.
Fine Companion
Traditional
1650
Fine Flowers in the Valley
Traditional
Finlandia
Popular Song
First Call
Traditional
Bugle Call
First Nowell
Christmas, Holiday
1833 - English Carol V - The first nowell, the angels did sing, was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay. C - Noel, noel, noel, noel, born is the King of Israel. N - a.k.a. The First Noel
First of April
Traditional
1773
Fisher's Hornpipe
Traditional
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Popular Song
1925 - w. Lewis & Young, m. Ray Henderson
Five Little Brown Jugs
Popular Song
Fizz Water
Traditional
Eubie Blake
Flanagan
Traditional
1892 - C. Murphy, W. Letters
Fledermaus Waltz
Traditional
Strauss
Flee as a Bird
Traditional
Dana
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Traditional
1900 - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov P - Tale of Tsar Saltan (Opera and Suite) Act III N - The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Opera and Suite) was published ca1904 by Bessel, St. Petersburg, without a date. PD Info has been unable to locate a 1922 or earlier dated publication. The well known arrangement by Rachmaninoff ca1929 is NOT PD in the USA.
Fling
Traditional
Float Away
Traditional
w.m. German Folksong V - Float away, float away, O'er land and o'er sea, Dark clouds stay not hither,
Floating Along
Popular Song
1906 - m. Edward Buffington, w. C.C. Pillsbury N - Published Separately as Song and Two Step
Flora
Traditional
1735
Flora MacDonald's Lament
Traditional
Floreine Waltz
Popular Song
Flow Gently Sweet Afton
Traditional
1838 - Spilman
Flowers in the Valley
Folk Song
Traditional
Flowers of the Vale
Traditional
Flowers that Bloom in the Spring
Traditional
Flying Arrow
Popular Song
1906 - m. Abe Holzmann N - March and Two Step
Flying Dutchman Overture
Traditional
1844 - Wagner
Flying Trapeze
Popular Song
1868 - m. Alfred Lee, w. George Leybourne V - Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn. Like an old coat that is tatter'd and torn. C - He'd float through the air with the greatest of ease. A daring young man on the flying Trapeze.
Foggy, Foggy Dew
Traditional
1700 V - One night as I lay in my bed, As I lay fast asleep My pretty Love seemed to come to my head And bitterly she did weep. C - Dries off like the foggy dew, dew, dew, More swift than the foggy dew.
Fol-The-Rol-Lol
Popular Song
1902 - w.m. Fred W. Leigh, Fred Murray V - I just learnt a comical ditty, From some of my friends in the City; The verses are short And I think that you ought To admit that the chorus is pretty. C - With a fol-the-rol-lol, fol-the-rol-lol ! Fol-the-rol-lol-the-rol-lad-dy. Fol-the-rol-lol, fol-the-rol-lol ! Fol-the-rol-lol-the-rol-lad-dy.
Follow The Swallow
Popular Song
1924 - w. Billy Rose, Mort Dixon, m. Ray Henderson
Following The Sun Around
Popular Song
1927 - w. Joe McCarthy, m. Harry Tierney
Fond is the Memory
Traditional
Foot Traveller
Traditional
Luse
Foot-Warmer
Traditional
1914 - Harry Puck
Footfalls on de carpet
Traditional
1864
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
Traditional
1783
For Me and My Gal
Popular Song
1917 - m. George Meyer, w. Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz
For My Sweetheart
Popular Song
1926 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson
For Sev'n Long Years
College
For You ~ Smith
Traditional
Smith V - They say the years have swallow's wings, But mine have leaden feet, Since last we stood and said 'good-bye' That eve in Junetide sweet. C - For you, for you my darling, I spoke those word untrue. Left you, tho' I loved you, And broke my heart for you!
For You A Rose
Popular Song
1917 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb
Forever Is A Long, Long Time
Popular Song
1916 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Darl MacBoyle
Forgive Me
Popular Song
1927 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Milt Ager
Forgotten
Traditional
1894
Forth to the Battle
Traditional
Fortune Teller
Traditional
1898
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
Popular Song
1905 - w.m. George M. Cohan V - The West, so they say, is the home of the jay, And Missouri's the state that can grind them. This may all be, but just take it from me, You don't have to go out West to find them. C - Only forty-five minutes from Broadway, think of the changes it brings. For the short time it takes, what diff'rence it makes,In the ways of the people and things.
Forty-Nine Bottles
College
w. 14th century, m. 1900 or earlier V - Forty-nine bottles hanging on the wall, Forty-nine bottles hanging on the wall; Take one away from them all, Forty-eight bottles hanging on the wall. N - Tune: Ten Green Bottles. This tune differs from the tune most sung today.
Four Kings March
Popular Song
1901 - m. C.W. Dalbey, Ellis Brooks,A.F. Weldon,W.H. Scouton
Fourpence a Day
Traditional
Frankie and Johnny
Traditional
1869 V - Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts. They had a quarrel one day.Johnny he vowed that he would leave her, Said he was goin' away. C - Oh, I'm a goin' away and I'm a goin' to stay. I'm never comin' home. You're goin' to miss me hon', in days to come, When the winter winds begin to blow. N - This is an old traditional story and song. There are many variations of both lyrics and music. Versions published after 1922 are NOT in the public domain.
Free America
Traditional
Free at Last
Spiritual
V - Way down yonder in the graveyard walk, I thank God I'm free at last, Me an my Jesus goin' to meet and talk C - Free at last, free at last; I thank God I'm free at last. Free at last, free at last; I thank God I'm free at last.
Free Lance
Patriotic
1906 - m. John Philip Sousa
Freedom's Home
Traditional
Ogden
Frere Jacque
Children
1811 V - Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Sonnez les matines! Sonnez les matines! Din, dan, don. Din, dan, don. N - Also See: Are You Sleeping?
Frisco Frazzle
Traditional
1912 - Nat Johnson
Frog He Would A Wooing Go
Children
V - A Frog He Would A Wooing Go, m-m, m-m, Whether his mother would let him or no, m-m, m-m.
Frog Went A-Courting
Traditional
1580 V - Frog went a courting and he did ride, Rinktum body minchy cambo, Sword and buckler by his side, Rinktum body minchy cambo C - Kimaneero down to Cairo, Kimaneero Cairo, Straddle addle ladda bobbo, Ladda bobbolinktum, Rinktum body minchy cambo, N - Frog courts Mouse, 15 verses or more.
From Aberdeen
Traditional
1698
From the Land of the Sky Blue Water
Popular Song
1909 - m. Charles W. Cadman, w. Nellie R. Eberhart
Funeral March
Traditional
1840 - Chopin
Funeral March of a Marionette
Classical
1872 - Charles Gounod N - Alfred Hitchcock Theme
Funiculi Funicula
Traditional
1880 V - Some think the world is made for fun and frolick, And so do I! And so do I! Some think it well to be all melancholic, To pine and sigh . . ., C - Harken! Harken! Music sounds afar! . . . Tra-la-la-la, Tra-la-la-la, Tra-la-la-la, Tra-la-la-la, Joy is ev'rywhere, Tra-la-la-la! N - a.k.a. A Merry Life
Funny Folks
Traditional
W. C. Powell
Fur Elise
Traditional
1810 - Beethoven
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