KLesser Known Public Domain SongsK List of 76
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. | |||
| Ka-Lu-A Popular Song |
1921 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Anne Caldwell | PD Reprint | |
| Kaiser's Got the Blues Traditional |
1918 - w. Domer C. Browne, m. W.C. Handy | PD Reprint | |
| Kalinka (Little Snowball Bush) Traditional |
PD Reprint | ||
| Kangaroo Hop Traditional |
PD Reprint | ||
| Kansas City Rag Traditional |
James Scott | PD Reprint | |
| Karama Popular Song |
1904 - w.m. Mabel McKinley | PD Reprint | |
| Kashmiri Song (Pale Hands I Loved) Popular Song |
1902 - m. Amy Woodforde-Finden, w. Laurence Hope | PD Reprint | |
| Kate Kearney Popular Song |
1904 - m. James B. Oliver, w. J. Everett Fay | PD Reprint | |
| Katey and her Kodak Traditional |
1904 | PD Reprint | |
| Katey Dear Popular Song |
1905 - w.m. Sara Posey | PD Reprint | |
| Katey's Letter Traditional |
1885 - Dufferin | PD Reprint | |
| Kathleen Traditional |
1894 | PD Reprint | |
| Kathleen Aroon Traditional |
1885 - m. Franz Abt, w. Mrs. Crawford V - Why should we parted be, Kathleen Aroon! When thy fond heart's with me, Kathleen Aroon! Come to those golden skies C - Kathleen Aroon! | PD Reprint | |
| Katiusha Traditional |
PD Reprint | ||
| Keel Row Traditional |
Traditional | PD Reprint | |
| Keep A Little Cozy Corner In Your Heart For Me Popular Song |
1905 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Jack Drislane | PD Reprint | |
| Keep In De Middle of De Road Spiritual |
V - I hear dem angels a-calling lus, Keep in de middle ob de road; Dey's a-waitin' dar in a great big crows . . . C - Den, chil'ren, keep in de middle ob de road . . Don't you look to de right, don't you look to de left . . | PD Reprint | |
| Keep Me From Sinkin' Down Spiritual |
V - I tell you what I mean to do, Keep me from sinkin' down, I mean to go to hebben too, Keep me from sinkin' down. C - Oh, Lord, Oh my Lord, Oh my good Lord, Keep me from sinkin' down. | PD Reprint | |
| Keep Sweet Traditional |
1899 | PD Reprint | |
| Keep the Ball A-Rolling Traditional |
1899 | PD Reprint | |
| Keep Your Eye on the Girlie You Love Popular Song |
1916 | PD Reprint | |
| Keep Your Head Down, Fritzie Boy Popular Song |
1918 - w.m. Gitz Rice | PD Reprint | |
| Keeper of the Eddystone Light Traditional |
1891 and earlier versions V - My father he kept the Eddystone light, and he married a mermaid one night; from which came offspring three-- Two was fish and t'other was me. C - A jolly story lightly told, How the winds they blew and the waves they rolled. N - a.k.a. 'Man at the Nore' published 1866. | PD Reprint | |
| Kelsterne Gardens Traditional |
1727 | PD Reprint | |
| Kemo Kimo Traditional |
1840 | PD Reprint | |
| Kendall's March Traditional |
1849 | PD Reprint | |
| Kentish Cricketeers Traditional |
1756 | PD Reprint | |
| Kentucky Babe Traditional |
1896 | PD Reprint | |
| Kentucky Days Popular Song |
1912 - m. Percy Weinrich, w. Jack Mahoney | PD Reprint | |
| Kentucky Dream Waltz Popular Song |
1918 - m. S.R. Henry, w. Domemico Savino, Frank H. Warren V - Hear the music playing an old familiar strain, Dixieland is saying 'Come back to me again' | PD Reprint | |
| Kerry Mills Barn Dance Popular Song |
1908 - m. Kerry Mills, w. Thurland Chattaway | PD Reprint | |
| Kerry Mills Rag Time Dance Traditional |
Kerry Mills | PD Reprint | |
| Kerry Mills' Fox Trot Popular Song |
PD Reprint | ||
| Kevin Barry Traditional |
PD Reprint | ||
| Keys of Canterbury Traditional |
PD Reprint | ||
| Keystone Rag Traditional |
Willie Anderson | PD Reprint | |
| Kill Him With Kindness Traditional |
1730 | PD Reprint | |
| Killaloe College |
PD Reprint | ||
| Killarney Balfe Traditional |
1862 | PD Reprint | |
| Kind Words Traditional |
m. Old English Melody, w. Abby Hutchinson Patty V - Kind words can never die, Cherished and blest, God knows how deep they lie, | PD Reprint | |
| Kind Words are Dear to All Traditional |
1885 - Van Noorden | PD Reprint | |
| King Arthur Children |
V - When good King Arthur rules this land, He was a goodly king. | PD Reprint | |
| King Cotton Patriotic |
1895 - m. John Philip Sousa | PD Reprint | |
| King Emanuel Spiritual |
V - Oh, who do you call de King Emanuel; I call my Jesus King Emanuel. C - Oh, de King Emanuel is a mighty 'manuel; I call my Jesus King Emanuel. | PD Reprint | |
| King of France Children |
V - The King of France with forty thousand men March'd up the hill and then march'd down again. | PD Reprint | |
| King of Poland Traditional |
1698 | PD Reprint | |
| King William Was King James's Son Traditional |
PD Reprint | ||
| Kingdom Comin' College |
PD Reprint | ||
| Kingdom Coming Traditional |
1862 - Henry Clay Work | PD Reprint | |
| Kinklets Traditional |
Arthur Marshall | PD Reprint | |
| Kinlock of Kinloch Traditional |
1849 | PD Reprint | |
| Kishmul's Galley Traditional |
Traditional Hebrides | PD Reprint | |
| Kismet Rag Traditional |
1913 - Scott Joplin, Scott Hayden | PD Reprint | |
| Kiss Me Again Popular Song |
1905 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Henry Blossom | PD Reprint | |
| Kiss Me Honey Do Traditional |
1898 | PD Reprint | |
| Kiss Me Quick and Go Traditional |
1856 - m. F. Buckley V - The other night, while I was sparking Sweet Tarlina Spray, The more we whisper'd our love talking, The more we had to say C - And what d'ye think she said? O 'Kiss me quick, and go my honey, Kiss me quick and go! To cheat surprise and prying eyes . . . | PD Reprint | |
| Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me Popular Song |
1910 - m. Ted Snyder, w. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Kiss Waltz Traditional |
1880 | PD Reprint | |
| Kisses Sweetest Kisses Of All Popular Song |
1918 - m. Lynn Cowan, w. Alex Sullivan | PD Reprint | |
| Kissing Papa Through the Telephone Traditional |
1899 | PD Reprint | |
| Kitchie Traditional |
1882 | PD Reprint | |
| Kitten Song (Puff!) Children |
V - See Puff - Kitten Song | PD Reprint | |
| Kitty Hayes Waltz Traditional |
1900 | PD Reprint | |
| Kitty Tyrrell Traditional |
1885 - m. C.W. Glover, w. Charles Jefferys V - You're looking as fresh as the morn, darling, You're looking as bright as the day | PD Reprint | |
| Kitty White Children |
V - Kitty White so slyly comes, To catch the mousie gray; | PD Reprint | |
| Klarchens Lied aus Egmont Goethe Traditional |
w. 1798, m - w. Goethe 1788,. M. J F Reichardt 1798 | PD Reprint | |
| Knights of the Golden O College |
N - Oberlin College | PD Reprint | |
| Knives and Forks Traditional |
1726 | PD Reprint | |
| Knock Wood Popular Song |
1911 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling | PD Reprint | |
| Knockout Drops Traditional |
1910 - F. Henri Klickmann | PD Reprint | |
| Knole Park Traditional |
1788 | PD Reprint | |
| Knot of White and Blue College |
N - Columbia University | PD Reprint | |
| Kol Nidre Traditional |
1765 | PD Reprint | |
| Koonville Koonlets Popular Song |
1899 - m. A.J. Weidt | PD Reprint | |
| Korner's Battle Prayer Traditional |
1885 - Hummel | PD Reprint | |
| Kuchen 7's Traditional |
1890 - Kuchen | PD Reprint | |
