PBest Known Public Domain SongsP List of 39
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. | |||
| Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile Smile Smile Popular Song |
1915 - m. Felix Powell, w. George Asaf V - Private Perks is a funny little codger With a smile a funny smile. Five feet none, he's an artful little dodger with a smile a funny smile. C - Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile. While you've a lucifer to light your fag, Smile, boys, that's the style. N - World War 1 marching song. Lucifer was a match, fag was a cigarette, and a kit bag was a canvas duffle bag. | PD Reprint | |
| Paddlin' Madelin' Home Popular Song |
1925 - w.m. Harry Woods | PD Reprint | |
| Pal Of Mine Popular Song |
1905 - m. Joseph S. Nathan, w. Bartley Costello | PD Reprint | |
| Pal of My Cradle Days Popular Song |
1925 - w. Marshall Montgomery, m. Al Piantadosi | PD Reprint | |
| Pal That I Loved Stole the Gal That I Loved Popular Song |
1924 - w.m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson | PD Reprint | |
| Palm Leaf Rag Traditional |
1903 - Scott Joplin | PD Reprint | |
| Panis Angelicus | See O Lord Most Holy - Panis Angelicus | ||
| Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers Popular Song |
1911 - m. Leon Jessel N - a.k.a. The Parade Of The Tin Soldiers. Original Piano Solo Without Lyrics. | PD Reprint | |
| Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - Song Popular Song |
1922 - m. Leon Jessel, w. Ballard MacDonald V - The toy shop door is locked up tight and ev'rything is quiet for the night. When suddenly the clock strikes twelve, the fun's begun. C - Her them all cheering, Now they are nearing, There's the captain stiff as starch. Bayonets flashing, Music is crashing, As the Wooden soldiers march. N - a.k.a. 'The Parade Of The Tin Soldiers - Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten. Song With Lyrics. | PD Reprint | |
| Parisian Pierot Popular Song |
1924 - w.m. Noel Coward | PD Reprint | |
| Pasadena Popular Song |
1924 - Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren | PD Reprint | |
| Pastime Rag No. 1 Traditional |
Artie Matthews | PD Reprint | |
| Patapan Christmas, Holiday |
1720 - Burgundian Carol. w.m. Bernard de la Monnoye (1641-1728) V - Guillô, pran ton tamborin; Toi, pran tai fleúte, Rôbin! Au son de cé instruman, Turelurelu, patapatapan, C - Willie, get your little drum, Robin, bring your flute and come. Aren’t they fun to play upon? Tu-re-lu-re-lu, pat-a-pat-a-pan; N - French, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, William Sandys,1833, London, p163. | PD Reprint | |
| Pathetique Sonata Traditional |
1799 - Ludwig van Beethoven | PD Reprint | |
| Paul Revere's Ride Instrumental, Keyboard |
1905 - m. E. T. Paull N - March | PD Reprint | |
| Pearls Popular Song |
1923 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Peas Porridge Hot Children |
1765 V - Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot nine days old! N - Also Bean Porridge Hot | PD Reprint | |
| Peg O' My Heart Popular Song |
1913 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Pilgrim's Song Spiritual |
V - I'm a poor wayfarin' stranger, While journeyin' thro this world of woe. Yet there's no sickness, toil, and danger, In that bright world to which I go. C - I'm just a goin' over Jordan, I'm just a goin' over home. N - a.k.a. I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger | PD Reprint | |
| Pilgrims' Chorus ~ Tannhauser Classical |
m. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) V - I joy once more now; O home to behold thee C - All praise to thee eternally. All praise to thee eternally. N - From last act of Tannhauser. Alt Translation: Once more, dear home, I with rapture behold thee, And greet the fields that so sweetly enfold thee | PD Reprint | |
| Play A Simple Melody Popular Song |
1914 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - The different lays of now-a-days All set my brain a-whirl. They're not the kind of songs they sang When mother was a girl C - Won't you play a simple melody Like my mother sang to me. One with good old fashioned harmony. Play a simple melody. N - a.k.a. Won't You Play a Simple Melody | PD Reprint | |
| Play Gypsies - Dance Gypsies Popular Song |
1926 - w. Julius Brummer, Alfred Grunwald, Harry B. Smith, m. Emmerich Kalman | PD Reprint | |
| Play That Barbershop Chord Popular Song |
1910 - m. Lewis Muir, w. William Tracey, Ballard McDonald V - Down in a great big rathskellar where a swell colored fellow by the name of Bill Jefferson Lord played piano while he'd sing a song. C - Mister Jefferson Lord play that Barbershop chord, That soothing harmony, It makes an awful awful awful hit with me. | PD Reprint | |
| Please Do It Again | See Do It Again (Please Do It Again) | ||
| Poet and Peasant Overture Traditional |
1854 - von Suppe | PD Reprint | |
| Polly Wolly Doddle Traditional |
1885 V - I went down south for to see my Sal, Sing polly wolly dooddle all the day' My sally am a spunky gal, Sing polly wolly doodle all the day C - Fare the well, fare thee well, fare thee well, my fairy fay. For I'm going to Lousiana , For to see my Susyanna, Sing polly wolly doodle all the day. | PD Reprint | |
| Pomp and Circumstance - No 1 in D Popular Song |
1902 - m. Edward Elgar N - March traditionally used for graduation ceremonies. | PD Reprint | |
| Poor Papa. He Got Nuthin' At All Popular Song |
1926 - w. Billy Rose, m. Harry Woods | PD Reprint | |
| Pop Goes the Weasel Popular Song |
1853 V - All around the cobbler's bench, The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey tho't twas all in fun, Pop goes the weasel. | PD Reprint | |
| Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow Hymn |
1560 V - Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heav'nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. | PD Reprint | |
| Prelude in C# Minor Traditional |
1893 - Rachmaninoff | PD Reprint | |
| Pretty Baby Popular Song |
1916 - m. Tony Jackson, Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Gus Kahn | PD Reprint | |
| Pretty Girl is Like a Melody Popular Song |
1919 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - I have an ear for music, And I have an eye for a maid. I link a pretty girlie, With each pretty tune that's played. C - A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day. Just like the strain of a haunting refrain, She'll start upon a marathon And run around your brain. | PD Reprint | |
| Prince Of Wails Popular Song |
1924 - m. Elmer Schoebel | PD Reprint | |
| The Prisoner's Hope | See Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! | ||
| Prisoner's Song Popular Song |
1924 - w.m. Guy Massey | PD Reprint | |
| Put Away A Little Ray Of Golden Sunshine Popular Song |
1924 - w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young m. Fred Ahlert | PD Reprint | |
| Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet Popular Song |
1909 - m. Percy Weinrich, w. Stanley Murphy | PD Reprint | |
| Put Your Arms Around Me. Honey Popular Song |
1910 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Junie McCree V - Nighttime am a fallin', ev'rything is still, And the moon am a shining from above. Cupid am a callin', ev'ry Jack and Jill, It's just about the time for making love. C - Put your arms around me honey, hold me tight. Huddle up and Cuddle up with all your might. Oh, babe, Won't you roll dem eyes, Eyes that I just idolize. | PD Reprint | |
