NBest Known Public Domain SongsN List of 18
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. | |||
| Napolean's Last Charge Instrumental, Keyboard |
m. Edward Ellis N - March | PD Reprint | |
| Narcissus Traditional |
1891, 1899 - Etherbert Nevin | PD Reprint | |
| National Emblem March Popular Song |
1906 - m. E.E. Bagley | PD Reprint | |
| Navy Hymn Patriotic |
1861 - m. Rev. John Bacchus Dykes, w. William Whiting V - Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave. C - Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! | PD Reprint | |
| Neapolitan Nights Popular Song |
1925 - w. Harrt D. Kerr, m. J.S. Zamecnik | PD Reprint | |
| Nearer My God to Thee Hymn |
m. Lowell Mason, w. Sarah F. Adams V - Nearer my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee. E'en tho' it be a cross that raiseth me. Still all my song shall be C - Nearer my God to Thee, Nearer to Thee! N - Played by the band on the Titanic as the ship was sinking. | PD Reprint | |
| Nelly Bly Traditional |
1850 - w.m. Stephen Colllins Foster V - Nelly Bly! Nelly Bly! bring de broom along, We'll sweep de kitchen clean, my dear, and hab a little song. C - Heigh! Nelly Ho! Nelly, listen lub to me, I'll sing for you, play for you, a dulcem melody. | PD Reprint | |
| New Kind Of Man With A New Kind Of Love Popular Song |
1924 - w.m. Sidney Clare, Leon Flatow | PD Reprint | |
| New Orleans Blues Popular Song |
1925 - m. Ferd 'Jelly Roll' Morton | PD Reprint | |
| Ninety-Nine Blues Popular Song |
1920 - w. Henry McCurdy, m. S. Gordon Saunders V - The other night I felt so lonely I had such awful blues Then I went to the phone to try and find her alone C - I've got the blues those 99 blues such awful blues I don't know what to do. But that's my fate Ev'ry time I call that place | PD Reprint | |
| No, No, Nora Popular Song |
1923 - w. Gus Kahn | PD Reprint | |
| Noah's Ark Spiritual |
V - Old Noah built himself an ark, There's one wide river to cross! He built it out of hickory bark . . . C - There's one wide river, And that wide river is Jordan . . . There's one wide river to cross. | PD Reprint | |
| Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen Spiritual |
V - Sometimes I up, sometimes I'm down; Oh, yes, Lord; Sometimes I'm almost to de groun', Oh, yes, Lord. C - Nobody knows de trouble I've seen, Nobody knows by Jesus. Nobody knows de trouble I've seen. Glory Hallelujah! | PD Reprint | |
| Nobody Knows What A Red-Headed Mama Can Do Popular Song |
1924 - w.m. Irving Mills, Al Dubin, Sammy Fain | PD Reprint | |
| Nobody's Sweetheart Popular Song |
1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Billie Meyers, Elmer Schobel P - The Vagabond Lover | PD Reprint | |
| Nola Popular Song |
1916 - m. Felix Arndt N - A Silhouette for the Piano | PD Reprint | |
| Nut Brown Maiden Traditional |
1885 V - Nut brown maiden, Thou hast a bright blue eye for love . . . A bright blue eye is thine, love! The glance in it is mine, love! | PD Reprint | |
| Nutcracker Suite Traditional |
Tchaikovsky | PD Reprint | |
