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Public Domain Songs List of 58

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IMPORTANT: This list is based on USA Copyright Law and is intended only as a help in researching public domain materials. This list is NOT sufficient documentation that music is in the Public Domain. To prove public domain status in the USA, you MUST find a published copy of the song with a copyright date of 1922 or earlier. Our PD Sheet Music Reprints are exact reprints of books and sheet music published in 1922 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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	Title	V=Verse   C=Chorus   N=Note   P=Production   w=Words   m=Music	1 - 3   $5 each 4 up   $4 each
	Sailing Sailing Traditional	Godfrey Marks V - Sailing, sailing, over the bound main. For many a stormy wind shall bow, ere Jack comes home again!	PD Reprint
	Sailor's Hornpipe Traditional	1795 -	PD Reprint
	Santa Lucia Traditional	1850 - Italian Folk Song V - Now 'neath the silver moon ocean is glowing. O'er the calm billow soft winds are blowing C - Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia N - Alt Verse: Calm o'er the ocean blue, Moonlight is shining, And with its silver light, stray cloud is lining.	PD Reprint
	Say It With Music Popular Song	1921 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Music is a language lovers understand, Melody and romance wander hand in hand. C - Say it with music, Beautiful music. Somehow they'd rather be kissed To the strains of Chopin or Liszt.	PD Reprint
	Scarborough Fair Folk Song	V - Where are you going? To Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme C - And she shall be a true lover of mine	PD Reprint
	School Days Popular Song	1906 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb	PD Reprint
	Scotland the Brave Traditional		PD Reprint
	Scotland's Burning Traditional	V - Scotland's burning, Scotland's burning, Look out, look out! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Pour on water, Pour on water! N - Round	PD Reprint
	Seeing Nellie Home Traditional		PD Reprint
	Semper Fidelis Patriotic	1888 - m. John Philip Sousa	PD Reprint
	Serenade from the Millions of Harlequin Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Shall We Gather at the River Traditional	1864 - Robert Lowry	PD Reprint
	She Is Ma Daisy Popular Song	1905 - m. Harry Lauder, w. J.D. Harper	PD Reprint
	She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain Traditional	1899 - N - Music: When the Chariot Comes is public domain Words: First published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg; no known PD publication is available.	PD Reprint
	Sheik of Araby Popular Song	1921 - m. Ted Snyder, w. Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler	PD Reprint
	Shew! Fly, Don't Bother Me Traditional		PD Reprint
	Shine On, Harvest Moon Popular Song	1908 - w.m. Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes V - The night was mighty dark so you could hardly see, For the moon refused to shine, Couple sitting underneath a willow tree, For love they pine. C - Oh, sing one, shine on harvest moon up in the sky, I ain't had no lovin' since April, January, June or July	PD Reprint
	Shure They Call It Ireland	See A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure They Call it Ireland)
	Sidewalks of New York Traditional	1894 -	PD Reprint
	Silver Threads Among The Gold Popular Song	1873 - m. H.P. Danks, w. Eben E. Rexford V - When your hair is silver white, And your cheeks no longer bright, With the roses of the May; I will kiss your lips and say C - Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold, Shine upon my brow today, Life is fading fast away	PD Reprint
	Simon the Cellarer Traditional	1885 - Hatton	PD Reprint
	Sipping Cider Thru A Straw Popular Song	1919 - w.m. Carey Morgan and Lee David V - When sweetest girl I ever saw, Was selling cider in a groc'ry store. C - Thipping thider thru a thtraw, We sat there for hours or more.	PD Reprint
	Sleeping Beauty Waltz Traditional	1890 - Tchaikovsky	PD Reprint
	Smilin' Through Popular Song	1918 - w.m. Arthur A Penn	PD Reprint
	So Long, Oo-Long (How Long You Gonna Be Gone?) Popular Song	1920 - w.m. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby	PD Reprint
	Softly now the Light of Day Traditional	1885 - Weber	PD Reprint
	Solace - A Mexican Serenade Ragtime, Music Hall	1909 - m. Scott Joplin (1867 - 1917)	PD Reprint
	Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me? Traditional	1750 - V - Soldier, soldier, will you marry me, With you knapsack, fife and drum?	PD Reprint
	Solomon Levi College		PD Reprint
	Somebody Stole My Gal Popular Song	1918 - w.m. Leo Wood	PD Reprint
	Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Spiritual	V - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child . . . a long ways from home. True believer. C - A long ways from home, a long ways from home	PD Reprint
	Song of the Volga Boatmen Traditional	1867 -	PD Reprint
	Spanish Cavalier Traditional	1881 - C - A Spanish cavalier stood in his retreat, and on his guitar played a tune dear.	PD Reprint
	Spring Song Traditional	1844 - Mendelssohn N - Classical Standard. Often used music for silent films.	PD Reprint
	St. Louis Blues Popular Song	1914 - w.m. William C. Handy N - a.k.a. Saint Louis Blues	PD Reprint
	Star Spangled Banner Patriotic	1814 - m. British Drinking Song, w. Francis Scott Key V - O ! Say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. C - Oh! Say does that star spangled banner yet wave, O... N - Lyrics: 9/13/1812 at Ft. McHenry	PD Reprint
	Stars and Stripes Forever - March Patriotic	1897 - m. John Philip Sousa	PD Reprint
	Stars and Stripes Forever - Song Patriotic	1898 - w.m. John Philip Sousa V - Let martial note in triumph float, And liberty extend it might hand C - Hurrah for the flag of the free, May it wave as our standard forever	PD Reprint
	Steal Away Spiritual	V - My Lord calls me, He calls me by the thunder, The trumpet sounds within my soul. I ain't got long to stay here. C - Steal away, Steal away, Steal away to Jesus! Steal away, steal away home. I ain't got long to stay here.	PD Reprint
	Streets of Laredo Traditional	1860 -	PD Reprint
	Streets of New York (In Old New York) Popular Song	N - a.k.a. In Old New York	PD Reprint
	Strike Up the Band - Here Comes a Sailor Popular Song	1900 - m. Charles B. Ward, w. Andrew Sterling	PD Reprint
	Sugar Blues Popular Song	1919 - m. Clarence Williams, w. Lucy Fletcher V - Have you heard these blues What I'm going to sing to you When you hear em they will thrill you thro' and thro' C - I've got the Sugan Blues. Every body's singing the Sugar Blues. The whole town is ringing I love me coffee I love my tea	PD Reprint
	Sunshine Of Your Smile Popular Song	1915 - m. Lillian Ray, w. Leonard Cooke	PD Reprint
	Swanee Popular Song	1919 - m. George Gershwin, w. Irving Caesar	PD Reprint
	Swanee River Moon Popular Song	1921 - w.m. H. Pitman Clarke	PD Reprint
	Sweet Adeline	See You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline
	Sweet and Low Traditional	1863 - Barnby V - Sweet and Low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea.	PD Reprint
	Sweet Betsy from Pike Traditional	1853 -	PD Reprint
	Sweet Evelina	See Dear Evelina, Sweet Evelina
	Sweet Genevieve Traditional	1869 - Tucker, Cooper	PD Reprint
	Sweet Indiana Home Popular Song	1922 - w.m. Walter Donaldson	PD Reprint
	Sweet Mamma (Papa's Getting' Mad) Popular Song	1920 - s.m. Fred Rose, George A. Little, Peter L. Frost	PD Reprint
	Sweet Pickles Ragtime, Music Hall	1907 - Theron C. Bennett (alias George E. Florence)	PD Reprint
	Sweet Rosie O'Grady Popular Song	1896 -	PD Reprint
	Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi Popular Song		PD Reprint
	Swing Low Sweet Chariot Spiritual	1872 - V - I looked over Jordan and what did I see, Coming for to carry me home? A band of angels coming after me, coming for to carry me home. C - Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home . .	PD Reprint
	Syncopated Walk Popular Song	1914 - w.m. Irving Berlin	PD Reprint

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