BLesser Known Public Domain SongsB List of 233
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| Ba-Be-Bi-Bo-Bu College |
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| Babes In The Wood Popular Song |
1915 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Schuyler Greene, Herbert Reynolds P - Very Good Eddie - 1915, Musical V - Little Lady don't be depressed and blue, After all we're both in the same canoe C - Give me your hand, here where we stand, We're off to Slumberland. Some dry your eyes, I'll sympathize, Like a father, mother, brother. | ||
| Babies on our Block Traditional |
1879 | ||
| Baby Love Popular Song |
w.m. Lew Berk | ||
| Baby Mine ~ Friedman Popular Song |
1901 - m. Leo Friedman, w. Raymond A. Browne V - When your heart is itching From love's sweet bewitching, strange things you will say and do C - Baby mine, Baby mine, Kiss me, honey, kiss me | ||
| Baby Mine ~ Johnston Traditional |
1875 - m. Archibald Johnston, w. Charles Mackey V - I've a letter from thy sire, Baby mine; I could read and never tire, Baby mine. C - .. He is coming back to thee! Baby mine. | ||
| Baby Mine ~ Manning Popular Song |
1910 - w.m. Clarence Manning V - Young wifie to hubby did say; Dear you tend the baby I pray. The XYZA holds a meeting today . . . C - Baby mine, Baby mine, Mama will come to you soon | ||
| Baby Rag Popular Song |
1917 - m. Tom Kennedy Ed Morton, w. Tom Kennedy, Ed Morton | ||
| Baby Rose Popular Song |
1911 - m. George Christie, w. Lou Weslyn | ||
| Baby Shoes Popular Song |
1916 - m. Al Piantadose, w. Joe Goodwin, Ed Rose | ||
| Back Among the Clover and the Corn Popular Song |
1904 | ||
| Back Home Again in Indiana | See Indiana (Back Home Again In) | ||
| Back Home In Tennessee Popular Song |
1905 - m. Walter Donaldson, w. William Jerome | ||
| Back to Life Traditional |
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| Back-log De Traditional |
1862 | ||
| Badinage Traditional |
1897 | ||
| Baghdad Popular Song |
1918 - m. Al Jolson, Sigmund Romberg, w. Harold Atteridge V - Cross the desert plains a traveler worn Came fatiguede and forlorn C - Bagdad, you rise through, Bagdad, through skies blue | ||
| Baker University Hymn College |
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| Bamboula Folk Song |
N - West Indies. 1905 Piano arrangement by S. Coleridge-Taylor. | ||
| Bandolero College |
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| Banjo Song Traditional |
1818 - J Sweeney | ||
| Bantam Step Traditional |
Harry Jentes | ||
| Barbara Ellen Traditional |
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| Barchetta Instrumental, Keyboard |
1896 - w. Ethelbert Nevin (1862 - 1901) | ||
| Barcus' Reel Traditional |
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| Barn Dance Popular Song |
1908 | ||
| Barn Elms Traditional |
1713 | ||
| Barnham Down Traditional |
1701 | ||
| Barque At Midnight Popular Song |
1899 | ||
| Bashful Swain Traditional |
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| Bath Carnival Traditional |
1777 | ||
| Battle Of The Nations Popular Song |
1915 - m. E.T. Paull | ||
| Bavarian Waltz Traditional |
1849 | ||
| Bavarian Yodel College |
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| Be Kind to the Loved Ones at Home Children |
Woodbury V - Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young. Who loved thee so fondly | ||
| Beadle of Grubb St Traditional |
1728 | ||
| Beans, Bacon, and Gravy Traditional |
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| Bear Gently, So Gently, the Roughly Made Bier Traditional |
1864 - Mitchell | ||
| Beautiful Bells Traditional |
Wellman | ||
| Beautiful Eyes Popular Song |
1909 - m. Ted Snyder, w. George Whiting, Carter DeHaven | ||
| Beautiful Isle of the Sea ~ Thomas Traditional |
Thomas | ||
| Beautiful Roses Popular Song |
1914 - w.m. Earl Carroll, Anatol Friedland | ||
| Beautiful Star in Heaven so Bright Traditional |
Sayles | ||
| Beautiful Star of Heaven Popular Song |
1905 | ||
| Beautiful Thoughts Of You Popular Song |
1910,1918 - w.m. Jerome Heller | ||
| Because ~ Bowers Traditional |
1898 - w. Charles Horwitz, m. Frederick Bowers | ||
| Because I'm Married Now Popular Song |
1907 - w.m. Herbert Ingraham V - How do you do? Well how are you? Me? Why I'm feeling fine! What have a drink? Well, I don't think! That stuff don't go for mine! C - I would, if I could, but I can't, Why? because I'm married now! I bid all those things get behind me when I took, the marriage vow. | ||
| Because You Were An Old Sweetheart Of Mine Popular Song |
1901 - m. Maurice L. Jacobs, w. Harry I. Robinson | ||
| Because You're You Popular Song |
1906 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Henry Blossom P - The Red Mill V - Love is a queer little elfin sprite, Blest with the deadliest aim! Shooting his arrow to left and right C - So I know I love you, dear, Because you're you. | ||
| Bed Time Children |
V - The evening is coming, The sun sinks to rest, The crows are all flying straight home to the nest. | ||
| Bedlam Traditional |
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| Been Down Into the Sea Spiritual |
V - O won't those mourners rise an' tell? C - Hallelujah! an a Hallelujah! | ||
| Before I'd Be A Slave Spiritual |
V - O, what preachin' ! . . . O, what preachin' over me, over me! C - Before I'd be a slave, I'd be buried in my grave | ||
| Beggar Traditional |
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| Beggar Boy Traditional |
Orr | ||
| Beggar's Song Traditional |
1890 - Richard Loveridge | ||
| Begone Dull Care Traditional |
1600's - Traditional English | ||
| Behind Your Silken Veil Popular Song |
1919 | ||
| Believe Me Popular Song |
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| Bell da Ring Traditional |
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| Bell Doth Toll Traditional |
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| Bellamira Traditional |
1721 | ||
| Belle Layotte Traditional |
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| Belle Malone Traditional |
McNaughton | ||
| Belle of Avenoo A Traditional |
1895 - w.m. Safford Waters | ||
| Bellisle's March 1765 Traditional |
1765 | ||
| Beloit Song College |
N - Beloit College | ||
| Beloved, It Is Morn Popular Song |
1896 - m. Florence Aylward, w. Emily Hickey | ||
| Ben Bolt Traditional |
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| Bend of the Horse-Shoe Traditional |
1830 | ||
| Bend of the Little Horse-Shoe Traditional |
1830 | ||
| Benny Havens Oh College |
N - West Point Academny | ||
| Berceuse Traditional |
Goshad | ||
| Best I Get Is Much Obliged To You Popular Song |
1907 - w.m. Benjamin H. Burt | ||
| Best Thing In Life Popular Song |
1907 - w.m. Charles K. Harris | ||
| Betsy Ross Popular Song |
1910 | ||
| Bicycle Built for Two | See Daisy Bell | ||
| Big Foot Lou Traditional |
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| Big Sunflower Traditional |
1860's - Minstrel Song | ||
| Bill Simmons Popular Song |
1906 - w.m. George A. Spink | ||
| Billy Patterson Traditional |
1859 | ||
| Billy Pringle Children |
V - Billy Pringle Had a little pig. When it was young it was not very big. | ||
| Bird With a Broken Wing Traditional |
1899 | ||
| Birds in the Night Children |
Arthur S. Sullivan V - Birds in the night that softly call, Winds in the night that strangely sigh | ||
| BL-ND And P-G Spells Blind Pig Popular Song |
1908 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Junie McCree | ||
| Black and Grey Traditional |
1686 | ||
| Black Boy Alley Traditional |
1744 | ||
| Black Brigade Traditional |
1862 | ||
| Black Cat Patrol Popular Song |
1996 | ||
| Black Crook Traditional |
1866 - Barras | ||
| Black Monk Traditional |
Traditional Welsh | ||
| Black Nag Traditional |
1670 | ||
| Black Smoke Traditional |
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| Blackbird's Retreat Traditional |
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| Blacksmith Traditional |
w.m. Franz Abt V - Who is that dark and swarthy man, Who there the hammer swings, So loudly hamm'ring all the day, | ||
| Blackville Society Traditional |
Berenard Franklin | ||
| Blackwell Hall Traditional |
1713 | ||
| Blanche Alpen Traditional |
Glover | ||
| Blantyre Explosion Traditional |
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| Blessed Guide to Peace and Light College |
N - Beloit Song | ||
| Bloom My Tiny Violet Children |
V - Bloom my tiny violet by the water mill, Yet a short while longer, Thou'lt be fairer still | ||
| Bloomingdale Waltz Traditional |
1823 | ||
| Blossom of the Honeysuckle Traditional |
1830 | ||
| Blow Ye Winds in the Morning Traditional |
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| Blue And The Gray Popular Song |
1900 - w.m. Paul Dresser | ||
| Blue Bell Popular Song |
1904 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Edward Madden | ||
| Blue Bird (Bring Back My Happiness) Popular Song |
1917 - m. F. Bernard Grant, w. George Graff, Jr. | ||
| Blue Eyed Mary Traditional |
w.m. German Folksong V - Come, tell me, blue eyed stranger, Say, whither dost thou roam? O'er this wide world a ranger, Hast thou no friends, no home? | ||
| Blue Eyes Popular Song |
1921 - m. I.B. Kornblum, w. Z. Myers V - When you came from heaven you brought down with you A wee bit of blue from the skies C - Blue Eyes, I've been looking all over for you, just you. Blue Eyes, I have long been a rover but now I'm through. | ||
| Blue Moon Traditional |
1918 - Max Kortlander, Lee S. Roberts N - Fox Trot - NOT Blue Moon, I saw you standing alone | ||
| Blue Streak Traditional |
1921 - Roy Bargy | ||
| Blue-eyed Mary Traditional |
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| Bluebird Children |
Ch. Debertiot V - Sweet bird, thy early note is gay, In woodland or in glade. | ||
| Blythe, blythe and merry was she Traditional |
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| Boat Song Popular Song |
1908 - m. Harriet Ware, w. Montrose J. Moses V - Where will you take me little boat, All on a summer's day? Shall I dream and let you float, Whither away C - Oh, little boat, my dream is o'er. I was a child and can dream no more. Take me back to the world's green shore, All on a summer's day. | ||
| Boat Song ~ Children Children |
V - On, we are floating in sunshine and shadow, Soft are the ripples that sing as we go. | ||
| Boat Song ~ Spiritual Spiritual |
V - I'm gwine to Al-a-bamy, Oh, Oh, For to see my mammy, Oh, Oh. She went from Ol' Virgininny, Oh, Oh, I'm her pickaninny, Oh, Oh. C - But I'd like to see my mammy Who lives in Alabamy, Oh ------------- Oh -------------- Oh -------------- | ||
| Boatman Traditional |
1650 | ||
| Boatmen's Dance Traditional |
Smith | ||
| Bobbin' Up And Down Popular Song |
1913 - w.m. D.A. Esrom | ||
| Bohemian Polka Traditional |
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| Bohunkus Traditional |
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| Bold Nelson's Praise Traditional |
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| Boll Weevil Traditional |
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| Bon Bon Buddy Popular Song |
1907 - m. Will M. Cook, w. Alex Rogers | ||
| Bonds of Love College |
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| Bonita Waltz Popular Song |
1909 | ||
| Bonnie College |
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| Bonnie Boat Traditional |
N - Round | ||
| Bonnie Charlie's Now Awa' Traditional |
1820 | ||
| Bonnie Doon Traditional |
Burns, Traditional Scots | ||
| Bonnie Dundee College |
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| Bonnie Dundees Traditional |
Traditional Scots | ||
| Bonnie Earl o' Morray Traditional |
Traditional Scots | ||
| Bonnie George Campbell Traditional |
Traditional Scots | ||
| Bonnie Mary of Argyle Traditional |
Traditional Scots | ||
| Bonnie Strathyre Traditional |
Traditional Scots | ||
| Bonny Eloise Traditional |
Thomas | ||
| Bonny Lighter-Boy Traditional |
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| Boo-Hoo-Hoo Popular Song |
1922 | ||
| Boom Our State Popular Song |
1921 | ||
| Boston Reel Traditional |
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| Botany Bay Traditional |
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| Bound to Go Traditional |
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| Bounding Billows Traditional |
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| Bounding Buck Traditional |
1918 - Henry Lodge | ||
| Bow-Wow-Wow College |
m. Loren Bragdon, w. W.S.C. V - When I first came down to Rutgers, having left my native plough, I was greeted by students, With a Bow-wow-wow N - Rutgers College | ||
| Bowdoin Beata College |
N - Bowdoin College | ||
| Bowery Traditional |
1892 | ||
| Bowld Sojer Boy Traditional |
Lover | ||
| Boy and the Cuckoo Children |
V - A little boy went out to shoot one day, And carried his arrows and bow. For guns are dangerous . . . C - Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo | ||
| Boy Guessed Right Traditional |
1898 | ||
| Boy's Best Friend is his Mother Traditional |
1883 - J. P. Skelly V - While plodding on our way, the toilsome road of life, How few the friends that daily there we meet! . . . A boy's best friend is his Mother. C - Then cherish her with care, And smooth her silv'ry hair, When gone, you will never get another. And where ever we may turn, This lesson we will learn . . . | ||
| Boys Are Coming Home Today Popular Song |
1903 - w.m. Paul Dresser | ||
| Boys In The Gall'ry For Mine Popular Song |
1903 - w.m. Paul Dresser | ||
| Brave Boys are They Traditional |
1861 - Henry Clay Work | ||
| Brave Mother Yale College |
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| Break Break Break Traditional |
Dempster | ||
| Break The News To Mother Popular Song |
1897 - w.m. Charles K. Harris V - While the shot and shell were screaming upon the battle field; The boys in blue were fighting their noble flag to shield. C - Just break the news to mother, She knows how dear I love her, And tell her not to wait for me, For I'm not coming home. | ||
| Breakfast College |
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| Breathings of Spring Traditional |
w.m. Felicia Hemans, C.M. von Weber V - What wakest thou, Spring? Sweet voices in the wood, And reedlike echoes that have long been mute. | ||
| Breeze from Blackville Traditional |
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| Bress old Andy Jackson Traditional |
1862 | ||
| Brick Makers Traditional |
1700's | ||
| Bridge Of Sighs Popular Song |
1900 - w.m. James Thornton | ||
| Bridgwater Fair Traditional |
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| Bright College Years College |
N - Yale University | ||
| Bright Eyes Popular Song |
1920 - m. Otto Motzan, M.K. Jerome, w. Harry B. Smith | ||
| Bright Eyes, Goodbye Popular Song |
1905 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Harry H. Williams | ||
| Bright Sparkles in de Churchyard Spiritual |
V - May de Lord -- He will be glad of me. . . . | ||
| Bright Stars Do Shine College |
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| Bright Years of youth College |
N - Dear Old Yale | ||
| Brighton Camp | See The Girl I Left Behind (Me) | ||
| Brighton Camp (The Girl I Left Behind Me) Traditional |
1879 - Irish Traditional V - The dames of France are fond and free, And Flemish lips are willing, And soft the maids of Italy, And Spanish eyes are thrilling C - . . To the girl I left behind me. | ||
| Brimbledon Fair Traditional |
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| Bring Back My Bonnie To Me | See My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean | ||
| Bring Back My Daddy To Me Popular Song |
1917 - m. George Meyer, w. William Tracey, Howard Johnson | ||
| Bring the Wagon Home John College |
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| Brisk Young Bachelor Traditional |
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| Broadway Blues Popular Song |
1920 - m. Carey Morgan, w. Arthur Swanstrom | ||
| Broke Broke Broke College |
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| Broom the Bonny Bonny Broom Traditional |
1650 | ||
| Brother John Traditional |
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| Brother Moses Gone Traditional |
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| Brother So Fine Children |
V - Brother so fine, brother so gay, Come do not be angry I pray. | ||
| Brother Tell Me of the Battle Traditional |
Root | ||
| Brother-'n-Law Dan Popular Song |
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| Brother, Guide Me Home Traditional |
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| Brownie Dear College |
m. Reese C. David, w. Sara C/ Davod | ||
| Bruce's Address Traditional |
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| Bruderschaft Traditional |
1821 - w. W. Muller, m. Traditional | ||
| Brunonia College |
N - Brown University | ||
| Brunswick Waltz Traditional |
1849 | ||
| Bruton Town Traditional |
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| Bubble Popular Song |
1913 - m. Rudolf Friml, w. Otto Hauerbach | ||
| Buckwheat Cakes College |
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| Budding Rose Waltz Popular Song |
1912 | ||
| Buddy Popular Song |
1919 | ||
| Buffalo Skinners Traditional |
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| Bugle Call College |
N - Round | ||
| Bugle Call Rag Ragtime, Music Hall |
1916 - m. J. Hubert Blake, Carey Morgan N - Fox Trot, no lyrics. NOT famous Jazz song of 1930s. | ||
| Build a House in Paradise Traditional |
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| Bull Dog Traditional |
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| Bull Dog (Oh! The Bull Dog) College |
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| Bull Dog (Way Down) College |
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| Bull Dog and the Bull Frog College |
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| Bully of the Town Popular Song |
1895 - w.m. Charles E. Trevathan P - Widow Jones - 1895, Musical V - Have yo' heard about dat bully dat's just come to town. He's round among de niggers a layin' their bodies down C - When I walk dat levee round, round, round , round . . . I'm a lookin' for dat bully an' he must be found. N - a.k.a. Bully Song, May Irwin's Bully Song | ||
| Bumble Bee Rag Ragtime, Music Hall |
1909 - Harry A. Tierney N - a.k.a. The Bumble Bee | ||
| Bunch o' Blackberries Traditional |
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| Bundeslied Traditional |
1815 - w. Ernst Moritz Arndt, m. Georg Friedrich Hanitsch | ||
| Bunker Hill ~ Law-Niles Traditional |
1775 - Law, Niles | ||
| Bunker Hill ~ Tuckerman Traditional |
w. James B. Taylor, m. Henry L. Tuckerman N - Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument 6/17/1843 | ||
| Burghee's Hole Traditional |
1728 | ||
| Burglar Man (Old Maid's Last Hope) Traditional |
1887 - E.S. Thup | ||
| Burial of the Robin Children |
Alfred S. Gatty V - Found in the garden, dead in his beauty, Ah! That a robin should die in the spring! | ||
| Burr Grass Traditional |
1868 | ||
| Bury Fair Traditional |
1698 | ||
| Bushwick Reel Traditional |
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| But I Dare Popular Song |
1901 - m. Arthur Trevelyan, w. F. Dupree | ||
| Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker Popular Song |
1917 - m. Mana-Zucca, w. Benjamin M. Kaye | ||
| Buttercups and Daisies Children |
V - Buttercups and daisies, Oh the pretty flowers. Coming ere the springtime To tell of sunny hours! | ||
| Butterfly Popular Song |
1914 | ||
| Butterfly's Ball Children |
V - Come little folks hasten, I beg of you all. To the grasshopper's feast and the butterfly's ball | ||
| Buy a Broom Children |
V - From Deutschland I come with my light ware all laden, to the land where the blessing of freedom doth bloom; | ||
| Buy a Broom Waltz Traditional |
Traditional | ||
| Buzzing Bumble Bees College |
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| By the Campfire Popular Song |
1919 | ||
| By the Sad Sea Waves ~ Benedict Traditional |
Benedict | ||
| By The Saskatchewan Popular Song |
1911 - m. Ivan Caryll, w. C.M.S. McLellan | ||
| By The Watermelon Vine Lindy Lou Popular Song |
1904 - w.m. Thomas S. Allen | ||
| Bye Bye Here's a Fly Children |
V - Baby bye, here's a fly, We will watch him you and I. How he crawls up the walls, Yet he never falls! | ||
| Bye Lo Popular Song |
1919 | ||
| Bzt! Bzt! College |
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