Best Known Popular Public Domain Songs List of 793
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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| Popular 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. | |||
| 99 Blues | See Ninety-Nine Blues | ||
| Aba Daba Honeymoon | 1914 - w.m. Arthur Fields, Walter Donaldson V - Way down in the Congo land lived a happy chimpanzee, She loved a monkey with a long tail, (Lordy, how she loved him!) C - 'Aba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, dab' Said the chimpie to the Monk. 'Baba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, dab' Said the Monkey to the Chimp. | PD Reprint | |
| Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder | 1900 - m. Herbert Dillea, w. Arthur Gillespie | PD Reprint | |
| Adoring You | 1924 - w. Joseph McCarthy, m. Harry Tierney | PD Reprint | |
| Afghanistan | 1920 - m. Harry Donnelly, w. William Wilander V - In the land of Afghanistan There's a Hindu maid and a man. She swore by the stars up above her That he was the one to love her. C - In Afghanistan, There's a Caravan By the fair oasis waiting for you and for you only. Cross the desert sand we will find a temple; There will be a bridal day for you my idol, In Afghanistan. | PD Reprint | |
| After I Say I'm Sorry [What Can I Say] | 1926 - w.m. Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman | PD Reprint | |
| After the Ball | 1892 - w.m. Charles K. Harris V - A bright little maiden climbed an old man's knee. Begged for a story, 'Do Uncle please?' Why are you single, why live alone? C - After the ball is over, After the break of morn, After the dancers leaving, After the stars have gone; | PD Reprint | |
| After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It | 1920 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Listen to me honey dear, Something's wrong with you I fear. It's getting harder to please you, Harder and harder each year. C - After you get what you want you don't want it, If I gave you the moon, You'd grow tired of it soon. You're like a baby You want what you want when you want it. | PD Reprint | |
| After You've Gone | 1918 - m. Turner Layton, w. Henry Creamer V - Now won't you listen honey while I say How could you tell me that you're going away C - After you've gone and left me crying, After you've gone There's no denying, you'll feel blue, You'll feel sad | PD Reprint | |
| Aggravatin' Papa | 1922 - w.m. Roy Turk, J. Russell Robinson, Addie Britt | PD Reprint | |
| Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life | 1910 - m. Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924), w. Rida Johnson Young (1875-1926) P - Naughty Marietta - 1910, Operetta V - Ah! Sweet Mysteryt of life, at last I've found thee. Ah! I know at last the secret of it all; All the longing, seeking, striving, waiting . . . C - . . . For it is love alone that rules for aye! | PD Reprint | |
| Ain't We Got Fun | 1921 - m. Richard Whiting, w. Gus Kahn, Raymond Egan V - Bill collectors gather 'Round and rather, Haunt the cottage next door. Men the grocer and butcher sent, Men who call for the rent. C - Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, Ain't we got fun. Not much money Oh but honey Ain't we got fun. The rents unpaid dear, We haven't a bus . . . | PD Reprint | |
| Ain't You Coming Back to Dixieland | 1917 - m. Richard A. Whiting, w. Raymond Egan | PD Reprint | |
| Alabama Jubilee | 1915 - m. George L. Cobb, w. Jack Yellen | PD Reprint | |
| Alabamy Bound | 1925 - w. Buddy DeSylva, Bud Green, m. Ray Henderson V - Goodbye, blues. Birdies are singin' ev'ry thing in tune. C - I'm Alabamy bound. There'll be no 'Heebie Jeebies' hangin' round. | PD Reprint | |
| Alcoholic Blues (Some Blues) | 1919 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Edward Laska V - I love my country, 'deed I do C - I've got the blues, I've go the alcoholic blues | PD Reprint | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | 1911 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Oh, ma honey, Better hurry and let's meander, Ain't you goin', To the leader man, ragged meter man? Oh, ma honey. C - Come on and hear, Come on and hear Alexander's ragtime band, Come and hear, Come on and hear, It's the best band in the land. | PD Reprint | |
| Alice Blue Gown | 1919 - m. Harry Tierney, w. Joe McCarthy V - I once had a gown it was almost new, Oh, the daintiest thing, it was sweet Alice Blue C - In my sweet little Alice Blue Gown, When I first wandered down into town | PD Reprint | |
| All Aboard For Dixie Land | 1913 - m. George L. Cobb, w. Jack Yellen | PD Reprint | |
| All Alone | 1911 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Will Dillon | PD Reprint | |
| All Alone (Irving Berlin) | 1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Just like a melody that lingers on, You seem to haunt me night and day. I never realized till you had gone How much I cared about you. C - All alone. I'm so all alone. There is no one else but you. All alone by the telephone waiting for a ring, a ting-a-ling. | PD Reprint | |
| All By Myself | 1921 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - I'm so unhappy. What'll I do, I long for somebody who, will sympathize with me; C - All by myself in the morning, All by myself in the night; I sit alone in a cosy Morris chair, So unhappy there Playing solitaire. | PD Reprint | |
| All Night Long | 1912 - w.m. Shelton Brooks | PD Reprint | |
| All She'd Say Was Umh-Umn | 1920 - w.m. Jack Dill, Mac Emery, Gus Van, Joe Schenck V - I never cared for birds or flowers or buzzing ot eh bees until today C - Like a sweet coooin' dove I'm just bbbling with love Umh Hum Umh-Hum | PD Reprint | |
| All The Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers | 1919 - m. Pete Wendling, w. Bert Kalmar, Edgar Leslie V - Oh, I just got back today, From a town not far away. I've been looking at the Quakers, In their clothes of gray; C - All the Quakers are shoulder shakers, Down in Quaker town, Things are upside down--The Jazz Bug bit 'em, How it hit 'em. | PD Reprint | |
| All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me | 1917 - m. Ernest Ball, w. Al Dubin | PD Reprint | |
| Along The Rocky Road To Dublin | 1915 - m. Bert Grant, w. Joe Young V - Said Pat McGee, now listen to me, I've heard you fellows brag about your beauties over here C - Along the rocky road to Dublin we were singing along, singing a song with joy me heart was bubblin' with Cordelia by me side | PD Reprint | |
| Always | 1925 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Ev'ry thing went wrong, and the whole day long I'd feel so blue C - I'll be loving you, Always. With a love that's true, Always. When the things you plan Need a helping hand, I will understand always. | PD Reprint | |
| Always Leave Them Laughing (When You Say Goodbye) | 1903 - w.m. George M. Cohan | PD Reprint | |
| Am I Wasting Time On You | 1926 - w.m. Howard Johnson, Irving Bibo | PD Reprint | |
| Amazing Grace | 1779 - John Newton V - Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound! That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. | PD Reprint | |
| America, Here's My Boy | 1917 - m. Arthur Lange, w. Andrew B. Sterling V - There's a million mothing knocking at the nations door, A million mothers, yes, and there'll be millions more C - America, I raised a boy for you. America, you'll find him staunch and true, Place a gun upon his shoulder, He is ready to die or do. | PD Reprint | |
| America, I Love You | 1915 - m. Archie Gottler, w. Edgar Leslie V - Amid fields of clover, 'Twas just a little over A hundred years ago, A handful of strangers, They faced many dangers To make their country grow C - America, I love you, You're like a sweetheart of mine, From ocean to ocean, for you my devotion, Is touching each bound'ry line | PD Reprint | |
| Angelus | 1913 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Robert V. Smith | PD Reprint | |
| Angry | 1925 - w. Dudley Mecum, m. Henry Brunies, Merritt Brunies | PD Reprint | |
| Annabelle | 1923 - m. Ray Henderson (1896 - 1970), w. Lew Brown (b. Russia, December 10, 1893; d. New York NY, February 5, 1958) V - Pretty Little Annabelle Liked a lot of beaus, And her sweetie Johnny Brown Wanted her to settle down, How he coaxes sweet Annabell, Goodness only knows. C - Oh! Annabelle, You've made a wild man out of me. Cause ev'ry day in ev'ry way, You get me jealous as can be. | PD Reprint | |
| Any Little Girl That's A Nice Little Girl | 1910 - m. Fred Fischer, w. Thomas J. Gray V - Said she, C - Any little girl that's a nice little girl is the right little girl for me | PD Reprint | |
| Any Old Port In A Storm | 1908 - m. Kerry Mills, w. Arthur Lamb | PD Reprint | |
| Any Old Time At All | 1906 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome | PD Reprint | |
| Any Time | 1921 - w.m. Herbert Happy Lawson V - I'm sad and blue 'bout nobody but you, Why you don't seem the same to me. I told you that I love'd you right from the start . . . C - Any time that you are lonely, Any time that you are blue, Any time you feel down hearted, That will prove to you my love is true . . . | PD Reprint | |
| Anything is Nice If It Comes From Dixieland | 1919 - w.m. Grant Clarke, Geo. W. Meyer, Milton Ager V - Ev'ry winter you will notice that the birdies in the sky, to the south will always fly C - Just to make our clothes the cotton grows, in dear old Alabam' | PD Reprint | |
| April Showers | 1921 - m. Louis Silvers, w. Bud DeSylva V - Life is not a highway strewn with flowers, Still it holds a goodly share of bliss. When the sun gives way to April showers, Here's the point that you should never miss. C - Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May. So if it's rainiong, have no regrets. | PD Reprint | |
| Arabian Nights | 1918,1919 - m. M. David and Wm. Hewitt, w. Herbert Reynolds V - With what joy girl and boy have always loved to look C - Arabian nights, golden nights, dear delights of oriental mystery | PD Reprint | |
| Are You From Dixie ('Cause I'm From Dixie Too) | 1915 - m. George L. Cobb, w. Jack Yellen | PD Reprint | |
| Are You Half The Man Your Mother Thought You'd Be | 1916 - m. Harry De Costa, w. Leo Wood V - Have you ever stopped to think of how you sat at mothers' knee, While she planned your future with you, pictured what a man you'd be? C - Have you kept your promise to her, That you made while on her knee? Can you truly say You're half the man today That she always thought you'd be? | PD Reprint | |
| Are You Lonesome Tonight | 1926 - w.m. Roy Turk, Lou Handman V - Tonight I am down hearted, For tho' we have parted, I love you and I always will. C - Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry we drifted apart? Does your memory stray to a bright summer day, When I kissed you and called you sweetheart? | PD Reprint | |
| Arrah Wanna | 1906 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Jack Drislane | PD Reprint | |
| Arrah, Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon | 1916 - m. Bert Grant, w. Joe Young, Sam Lewis | PD Reprint | |
| As Long As The World Rolls On | 1907 - m. Ernest Ball, w. George Graff | PD Reprint | |
| At A Mississipi Cabaret | 1914 - m. Albert Gumble, w. A. Seymour Brown | PD Reprint | |
| At Dawning | 1906 - m. Charles Wakefield Cadman, w. Nelle Richmond Eberthart V - When the dawn flames in the sky I love you; When the birdling wak and cry, I love you | PD Reprint | |
| At Peace With The World | 1926 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| At the Ball, That's All | 1913 - w.m. J. Leubrie Hill P - Ziegfield Follies of 1913 - 1913, Musical Variety | PD Reprint | |
| At The Devil's Ball | 1913 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - I had a dream, last night, That filled me full of fright: I dreamt that I was with the Devil below, In his great big fiery hall. C - At the Devil's Ball, At the Devil's Ball I saw the cute Mrs. Devil, so pretty and fat, Dress'd in a beautiful fireman's hat; | PD Reprint | |
| At The End Of The Road | 1924 - w. Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley | PD Reprint | |
| Au Revoir, But Not Good Bye | 1917 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Lew Brown V - Though you're leaving me today, never fear. In my thoughts you'll always be every near. C - Au revoir but not Good Bye, soldier boy. Brush that tear drop from you eye, Soldier boy. | PD Reprint | |
| Aunt Hagar's Children Blues | 1921 - w. Lt. J. Tim Brymm, m. W.C. Handy V - Old Deacon Splivin', his flock was givin' The way of livin' right, Said he 'No wingin' no ragtime singin' tonight'. Up jumped Aunt Hagar and shouted with all her might C - . . . Let the congregation join while I sing those lovin' Aunt Hagar's Blues. | PD Reprint | |
| Avalon | 1920 - w.m. Al Jolson, Vincent Rose V - Ev'ry morning mem'ries stray Across the sea where flying fishes play And as the night is falling I find that I'm recalling C - I found my love in Avalon Beside the bay. I left my love in Avalon and sail'd away. I dream of her and Avalon From dusk 'till dawn | PD Reprint | |
| Ave Maria ~ Gounod | 1859 - m. Bach, Gounod, w. Gounod | PD Reprint | |
| Baby Doll | w.m. Armstrong and Clark | PD Reprint | |
| Baby Face | 1926 - w.m. Benny Davis, Harry Akst V - Rosy cheeks and turn'd up nose and curly hair. I'm raving 'bout my baby now. Pretty little dimples here and dimples there. C - Baby face. You've got the cutest little baby face. There's not another one could take you place. Baby Face. | PD Reprint | |
| Baby, Won't You Please Come Home | 1919 - w.m. Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield V - I've got the blues I feel so lonely,I'd give the world if I could only make you understand C - Baby won't you please come home . . . I have tried in vain, nevermore to call your name, When you left you broke my heart, That will never make us part | PD Reprint | |
| Back Home Again in Indiana | See Indiana (Back Home Again In) | ||
| Back To The Carolina You Love | 1914 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. Grant Clarke | PD Reprint | |
| Back, Back To Baltimore | 1904 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Harry H. Williams | PD Reprint | |
| Bag Of Rags | 1912 | PD Reprint | |
| Bagdad | 1912 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Anne Caldwell, James O'Dea | PD Reprint | |
| Bagdad (J.Yellen,M.Ager) | 1924 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Milton Ager | PD Reprint | |
| Ballin' the Jack | 1913 - m. Chris Smith, w. Jim Burris V - Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane Since that new dance down in Georgia came, I'm the only person who's to blame I'm the party introduced it there, so! C - First you put your two knees close up tight, Then you swing 'em to the left, then you sway em to the right | PD Reprint | |
| Bam Bam Bamy Shore | 1925 - m. Mort Dixon, m. Ray Henderson | PD Reprint | |
| Bambalina | 1923 - m. Vincent Millie Youmans (1898 - 1946), Herbert P. Stothart (1885 - 1949), w. Otto Abels Harbach (1873 - 1963), Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein, II (1895-1960) P - Wildflower - 1923, Broadway V - Wilt thou come with me to the fair? Bambalina will be there. Who is Bambalina what sort of man is he? He's fiddler man by trade, Both beloved by man and maid. C - When we're dancing at the fair we have to watch and keep aware, When good ol Bambalina calls a stop; That means I must stand still in your arms and hold your hand still. | PD Reprint | |
| Band Played On | 1895 - m. Charles B. Ward, w. John F. Palmer V - Matt Casey formed a social club that beat the town for style, And hired for a meeting place a hall. C - Casey would waltz with a strawberry blond, and the band played on. He'd glide cross the floor with the girl he adored, and the Band played on. | PD Reprint | |
| Bandana Days | 1921 - w.m. Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle | PD Reprint | |
| Barcelona | 1926 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Polchard Evans | PD Reprint | |
| Barney Google | 1923 - w.m. Con Conrad (1891-1938), Billy Rose (1899-1966) V - Who's the most important man this country ever knew. Who's the man our Presidents tell all their troubles to. C - Barney Google with his Goo Goo Googlyeyes. Barney Google had a wife three times his size. She sued Barney for divorce, Now he's living with his horse. | PD Reprint | |
| Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee | 1912 - m. Henry I. Marshall, w. Stanley Murphy | PD Reprint | |
| Beale Street Blues | 1917 - w.m. W.C. Handy V - I've seen the lights of gay Broadway C - I'd rather be here than any place I know | PD Reprint | |
| Beautiful Annabelle Lee | 1920 - m. George Meyer, w. Alfred Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Beautiful Dreamer | 1864 - Stephen Collins Foster V - Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dew drops are waiting for thee; Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, Lull'd by the moonlight, have all pass'd away! C - Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me! Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me. | PD Reprint | |
| Beautiful Garden of Prayer | 1920 | PD Reprint | |
| Beautiful Ohio | 1918 - m. Robert A. King, w. Ballard MacDonald | PD Reprint | |
| Because ~ Guy d'Hardelot | 1902 - w. Edward Teschemacher, m. Guy d'Hardelot N - m. pseudonym of Helen Guy or Mrs. W.I. Thodes | PD Reprint | |
| Because I Love You | 1926 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Why am I lonely and why am I blue? And why am I thinking just thinking of you. C - Because I love you I've tried so hard bu can't forget Because I love you. | PD Reprint | |
| Bedelia | 1903 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome V - There's a charming Irish lady with a roguish winning way, Who has kept my heart a bumpin' and a jumpin' night and day. C - Bedelia, I want to steal ye, Bedelia I love you so, I'll be your Chauncey Olcott If you'll be my Molly O'. | PD Reprint | |
| Bells of St Mary's | 1917 - m. A. Emmett Adams, w. Douglas Furber | PD Reprint | |
| Beside A Babbling Brook | 1923 - m. Walter Donaldson (1893-1947), w. Gus Kahn (1886-1941) V - When I was younger I used to hunger to climb up the ladder of life. Now that I've grown up I might as well own up it's not worth the worry and strife. C - I'd be more than satisfied if I could hide away beside a babbling brook Rippling waters call me far away to a quiet shady nook. | PD Reprint | |
| Bicycle Built for Two | See Daisy Bell | ||
| Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now | 1924 - m. Milton Ager (b. October 6, 1893; d. May 6, 1979), w. Jack Yellen (b. January 1, 1970; d. April 17, 1991) V - In the town of Louisville, They've got a man called Big Bad Bill; I want to tell you he sure was tough; Brother he was rough. C - Big Bad Bill is sweet William now; Married life has changed him somehow. He's the man they all used to fear; Now the people call him Willie dear. | PD Reprint | |
| Big Bass Viol | 1910 - w.m. M.T. Bohannon V - There once lived a man in the town of Missoula. His name was Augustus Miles. He was known miles around as a Lalapalousa, At playing the big bass viol. C - Zum, zum, zum, sounds forth his big bass viol. Zum,zum,zum He plays it all the while, There ne'er a lute nor harp or flute with tones so soft or mild. | PD Reprint | |
| Big Boy | 1924 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Milton Ager | PD Reprint | |
| Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home | 1902 - w.m. Hughie Cannon (1877-1912) V - On one summer's day, Sun was shining fine. The lady love of old Bill Bailey was hanging clothes on de line in her back yard, and weeping hard. C - Won't you come home Bill Bailey, won't you come home? She moans the whole day long; I'll do de cooking, darling, I'll pay de rent; I knows I've done you wrong. | PD Reprint | |
| Billy | 1911 - w.m. Joe Goodwin, James Kendis, Herman Paley | PD Reprint | |
| Bimini Bay | 1921 - m. Richard Whiting, w. Gus Kahn, Raymond Egan | PD Reprint | |
| Bird In A Gilded Cage | 1900 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Arthur Lamb V - The ballroom was filled with fashions throng, It shone with a thousand lights, And there was a woman who passed along, The fairest of all the sights. C - She's only a bird in a gilded cage, A beautiful sign to see, You may think see's happy and free from care, She's not, though she seems to be | PD Reprint | |
| Bird on Nellie's Hat | m. Alfred Solman, w. Arthur Lamb | PD Reprint | |
| Birth of Passion | 1910 - m. Karl L. Hoschna, w. Otto Hauerbach P - Madame Sherry - 1910, French Vaudeville | PD Reprint | |
| Birth Of The Blues | 1926 - w. B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, m. Ray Henderson P - George White's Scandals | PD Reprint | |
| Bit O' Blarney | 1904 - m. J. Fred Helf, w. Will Heelan | PD Reprint | |
| Black Bottom | 1926 - w. B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, m. Ray Henderson P - George White's Scandals | PD Reprint | |
| Black Bottom Stomp | 1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Blaze Away March | 1901 - m. Abe Holzmann | PD Reprint | |
| Blue (and Broken-Hearted) | 1922 - m. Lou Handman, w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie V - I used to think I could live without you, But I admit that I changed my mind. I go to sleep and I dream about you, And thru' the day you can always find me. C - Blue because we're parted, Blue and broken hearted, There was a time I was jolly, You know the reason I am melancholy, Blue and oh! so lonely. | PD Reprint | |
| Blue Danube Blues | 1921 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Anne Caldwell P - Good Morning Dearie - 1921, | PD Reprint | |
| Blue Room | 1926 - w. Lorenz Hart, m. Richard Rodgers P - The Girlfriend | PD Reprint | |
| Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me | 1919 - m. Carey Morgan, w. Charles McCarron V - What is that song about kisses, What is that song about smiles, If I could have my way I'd sing a song today C - There are Blues that you get from worry. There are Blues that you get from pain. And there are Blues when you're lonely | PD Reprint | |
| Boola Boola | 1901 - w.m. Billy Johnson, Bob Cole, Allen M. Hirsch V - Well here we are, well here we are: Just watch us rolling up a score. We'll leave those fellows behind so far, They won't want to play us any more. C - Boola, Boola, Boola, Boola, Boola, Boola, Boola. When we're through with those poor fellows, they will holler 'Boola Boola' N - Yale University | PD Reprint | |
| Breezin' Along With The Breeze | 1926 - w.m. Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simmons, George Whiting | PD Reprint | |
| Broadway Rose | 1920 - m. Otis Spencer, Martin Fried, w. Eugene West | PD Reprint | |
| Broken Hearted Melody | 1923 - m. Isham Edgar Jones (1894-1956), w. Gus Kahn (1886-1941) V - Out of the dear long ago, I hear a song sweet and low. Drifting it seems, out of the dreams, Dreams that we used to know, dear. C - Just a broken hearted melody, Just a song that ends with a sigh. Like the sweet refrain you sang to me on the night we said good-bye, Dear. | PD Reprint | |
| Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue? | 1925 - w. Alfred Bryan, m. George W. Meyer V - Tear drops dim the light, in your eyes so bright, Just like rain drops dime the window pane. C - Brown eyes why are you blue? Brown eyes what can I do? Don't keep the sunshine out of your eyes. | PD Reprint | |
| Budweiser's A Friend Of Mine | 1907 - m. Seymour Furth (1877? - 1932), w. Vincent Bryan (1878 - 1937) V - The poets may sing of the friends who will cling to you, When you are gloomy and blue. But I have one friend who will stick to the end, Just the dearest friend I ever knew. C - Bud, Budweiser's a friend of mine, Friend of mine, yes, a friend of mine. What care I, if the sun don't shine, While I've got Budweiser. | PD Reprint | |
| By Heck | 1914 - m. S.R. Henry, w. J. Wolfe Gilbert V - Old Josh who care to town from Oskaloosa To sell his oldest milking bridle cow, Said he 'now she's a reg'lar lallapaloosa' . . C - Oh! What a town, makes me feel just like a clown, Here I'm walking up and down with a cow By Heck! Wow! | PD Reprint | |
| By the Beautiful Sea | 1914 - m. Harry Carroll, w. Harold Atteridge V - Joe and Jane always together, Said Joe to Jane 'I love Summer weather, So let's go to that beautiful sea.' C - By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea, You and I, you and I, oh! how happy we'll be. When each wave comes a rolling in | PD Reprint | |
| By the Light of the Silvery Moon | 1909 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Edward Madden V - Place park, Scene dark, Silv'ry moon is shining thro' the trees; Cast two, me, you, Sound of kisses floating on the breeze. C - By the light of the silvery moon, I want to spoon, To my honey I'll croon love's tune. Honeymoon keep a shining in June | PD Reprint | |
| By The Light Of The Stars | 1925 - w.m. George A. Little, Arthur Sizemore, Larry Shay | PD Reprint | |
| By the Waters of Minnetonka | 1914 - w. J.M. Cavanass, m. Thurlow Lieurance N - a.k.a. Moon Dear | PD Reprint | |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | 1926 - w. Mort Dixon, m. Ray Henderson V - Blackbird blackbird singing the blues all day. Right outside of my door. Blackbird blackbird Why do you sit and say 'There's no sunshine in store'. C - Pack up all my care and woe here I go singing low. Bye bye blackbird. Where somebody waits for me. Sugar's sweet and so is she. | PD Reprint | |
| Calico Rag | PD Reprint | ||
| California | 1922 - w.m. Cliff Friend, Con Conrad V - California let me speak my mind. I've been waiting for a long long time. I've got a sneaky feeling I'll be stealing To your bright and sunny clime. C - My California, Hear your lonesome boy calling. Honest I ain't a-stalling. I want to come home. Just head me crying. | PD Reprint | |
| California Here I Come | 1924 - w.m. Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson, Bud DeSylva P - Bombo - 1921, Broadway Musical V - When the wintry winds are blowing; And the snow is starting in to fall, Then my eyes turn westward knowing, That's the place I love the best of all. C - California, here I come. Right back where I started from. Where bowers of flowers bloom in the sun. Each morning at dawning, Birdies sing an' ev'ry thing. | PD Reprint | |
| Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon | 1910 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Nellie Green met Harry Lee At a masquerade the other night C - Call me up some rainy afternoon, I'll arrange for a quiet little spoon | PD Reprint | |
| Call Of The South | 1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin P - Music Box Revue 1925 | PD Reprint | |
| Camptown Races | 1850 - Stephen Collins Foster V - De Camptown ladies sing dis song Doo-dah! doo-dah! De Camptown race-track five miles long. Oh! doo-dah day! C - Gwine to run all night! Gwine to run all day! I'll bet my money on de bobtail nag, Somebody bet on de bay. | PD Reprint | |
| Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline | 1914 - m. Caro Roma, w. William H. Gardner | PD Reprint | |
| Can't You See I'm Lonely | 1905 - m. Harry Armstrong, w. Felix Feist | PD Reprint | |
| Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy? | 1911 - w.m. Thurland Chattaway | PD Reprint | |
| Canadian Capers | 1915 - w.m. Gus Chandler, Bert White, Harry Cohen | PD Reprint | |
| Cannon Ball Blues | 1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Caprice Viennois | m. Fritz Kreisler | PD Reprint | |
| Careless Love | See Loveless Love | ||
| Carolina In The Morning | 1922 - m. Walter Donaldson (1893-1947), w. Gus Kahn (1886-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Carrie (Marry Harry) | 1909 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Junie McCree | PD Reprint | |
| Carry Me Back To Old Virginny | 1878 - w.m. James A. Bland V - Carry me back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow. There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime, There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go. | PD Reprint | |
| Casey Jones | 1909 - m. Eddie Newton, w. T. Lawrence Seibert V - Come all you rounders if you want to hear a story about a brave Engineer. Casey Jones was the Rounders name On a six eight wheeler boys he won his fame. C - Casey Jones! mounted to the cabin. Casey Jones with his orders in his hand. Casey Jones mounted to the cabin and he took his farewell trip to that Promised land. | PD Reprint | |
| Casey Would Waltz with the Strawberry Blonde | See The Band Played On | ||
| Cecilia | 1925 - w. Herman Ruby, m. Dave Dreyer V - Little Miss Cecilia Green, Little over sweet sixteen, But the cutest flapper that you've every seen. C - Does your Mother know you're out Cecilia! Does she know that I'm about to steal you. | PD Reprint | |
| Chanticleer Rag | 1910 - m. Albert Gumble, w. Edward Madden | PD Reprint | |
| Charleston | 1923 - w.m. Cecil Mack (1873-1944), James P. (Jimmy) Johnson (1894 - 1955) P - Runnin' Wild - 1923, Broadway V - Carolina, Carolina, At last they're got you on the map, With a new tune, Funny blue tune, With a peculiar snap! C - Charleston! Charleston! Made in Carolina, Some dance, Some pruacm I'll say, There's nothing finer than the Charleston, Charleston | PD Reprint | |
| Charley, My Boy | 1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ted FioRito | PD Reprint | |
| Charmaine | 1926 - w.m. Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack | PD Reprint | |
| Cheatin' On Me | 1925 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Lew Pollack | PD Reprint | |
| Cheer Up, Mary | 1906 - w.m. Jack Kendis, Harry Armstrong | PD Reprint | |
| Cherie | 1921 - m. Irbing Bibo, w. Leo Wood | PD Reprint | |
| Cherie, I Love You | 1926 - w.m. Lillian Rosedale Goodman | PD Reprint | |
| Chicago Breakdown | 1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Chicago, That Toddlin' Town | 1922 - w.m. Fred Fisher V - I got a gal, I got a pal, I got a chance, I got a dance, waiting for me. I'm goin' to make, right to the lake, There with the boys, in Illinois, I'll want to be. C - Chicago, Chicago, That todd'ling town, That todd'ling town. Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around. I love it | PD Reprint | |
| Chicken Reel | 1910 - m. Joseph M. Daly, w. Joseph Mittenthal | PD Reprint | |
| Chili Bean | 1920 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Lew Brown V - In the land of Eenie meenie minie mo, Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! not long ago Lived a girl named Chili, and the fellows loved her so C - Oh! You lean and lanky Chili Beanie eenie minie mo. You know we love you so. We love your ja da, um ta da da | PD Reprint | |
| China Boy | 1922 - w. Phil Boutelje, m. Dick Winfree | PD Reprint | |
| Chinatown My Chinatown | 1910 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome V - When the town is fast asleep, And it's midnight in the sky C - Chinatown, my Chinatown, Where the lights are low | PD Reprint | |
| Chong, He Come From Hong Kong | 1919 - w.m. Harold Weeks | PD Reprint | |
| Christmas Day | 1910 - m. Gustav Holst | PD Reprint | |
| Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers | m. H. Fraser-Simson , w. A.A. Milne V - Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed, Droops on the little hands little gold head, Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. | PD Reprint | |
| Ciribiribin | 1909 - m. Alberto Pestalozza, w. Rudolf Thaler V - When through vale and dale I'm wand'ring; Only one name follows me, And while list'ning to its rhythm To my ear 'tis melody C - Ciribiribin, a name of mystery that in my heart doth lie, Ciribiribin, It echoes constantly as days and nights roll by. | PD Reprint | |
| Clap Yo' Hands | 1926 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. Georgia Gershwin P - Oh, Kay! | PD Reprint | |
| Climbing Up The Ladder Of Love | 1926 - w. Raymond Klages, m. Jesse Greer P - Earl Carroll's Vanities | PD Reprint | |
| Close Your Eyes | 1925 - w. Larry Yoell, m. Charles Vincent | PD Reprint | |
| Coal Black Mammy | 1921 - m. Ivy St. Helier, w. Laddie Cliff | PD Reprint | |
| Cohen On The Telephone | 1914 - w. Joe Hayman | PD Reprint | |
| Collegiate | 1925 - w.m. Moe Jaffe, Nat Bonx | PD Reprint | |
| Colonel Bogey March | 1916 - m. Kenneth J. Alford N - March used in 1957 Movie, Bridge on the River Kwai | PD Reprint | |
| Colorado | 1924 - w. Walter Hirsch, m. Harold A. Dellon | PD Reprint | |
| Come After Breakfast, Bring 'Long Your Lunch | 1909 - w.m. James T. Brymn, Chris Smith, Jim Burris | PD Reprint | |
| Come Along My Mandy | 1910 - w.m. Tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence, Harry Gifford P - Jolly Bachelors - 1910, | PD Reprint | |
| Come Back to Erin | 1866 - Claribel | PD Reprint | |
| Come Down, Ma Evenin' Star | 1902 - m. John Stromberg, w. Robert B. Smith | PD Reprint | |
| Come On Spark Plug | 1923 - w.m. Billy Rose (1899-1966), Con Conrad (1891-1938) V - The horses at the post! They're off and running neck and neck. Ev'ry one's a nervous wreck! Who's showing all that speed? What's that blanket that I see; Who else could it be. C - Come on you Spark Plug. I'm praying 'whoa! giddy-ap, giddy-ap, don't lose. Baby needs a pair of shoes.' | PD Reprint | |
| Come Out Of The Kitchen, Mary Ann | 1917 - w.m. James Kendis, Charles Bayha V - Mary Ann was a picture fan But she worked hard all day. Washing dishes, still she had wishes To star in a photo play C - Come out of the kitchen Mary darlin', Come out of the kitchen Mary Ann. Why waste your time cooking Irish stew When Mary Pickford and Theda Barra will step aside for you. | PD Reprint | |
| Come Take A Trip In My Airship | 1904 - m. George Evans, w. Ren Shields | PD Reprint | |
| Come to the Moon | 1919 - m. George Gershwin, w. Ned Wayburn, Lou Paley V - Hello ev'rybody, I have come to take you back with me To a land of liberty C - Come to the moon, I'll lead the way to Spoonland There earthly troubles vanish like bubbles | PD Reprint | |
| Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine | 1910 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Copenhagen | 1924 - w. Walter Melrose m. Charlie Davis V - Way down in Old New Orleans You will find shoulder shakin' queens And when they roll their eyes You wake up in paradise. C - Professer man won't you play Copenhagen 'cause that's one tune sure has got me runnin' wild. Nobody knows how that tune burns up my clothers So Hey Hey Hey Syncopate all night long. | PD Reprint | |
| Cossack Love Song [Don't Forget Me] | 1925 - w. Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Herbert Stothart, George Gershwin P - Song of the Flame | PD Reprint | |
| Covered Wagon Days | 1923 - w.m. Will Morrissey (1887-1957), Joe Burrowes P - Covered Wagon - 1923, Silent Movie V - In the days of 'forty-nine', There was no one who'd decline, The call out West where all the best of fortune seemed to shine. C - Old covered wagon days. Gold draggin' in their ways. Your deeds in history play Parts that grip the hearts of our nation. | PD Reprint | |
| Crazy Blues | 1920 - w.m. Perry Bradford V - I can't sleep at night I can't eat a bite 'Cause the one I love He don't treat me right. It makes me feel so blue I don't know what to do. C - 'Cause my love has been refused. So now I got the Crazy Blues. | PD Reprint | |
| Crinoline Days | 1922 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Cross Your Heart | 1926 - w. Bud DeSylva, m. Lewis E. Gensler P - Queen High | PD Reprint | |
| Cry Baby Blues | 1921 - w. Sam Lewis and Joe Young, m. George W. Meyer V - Youy're the baby I've been calling my own. Oh! me, Oh! my. You're about the meanest baby I've known. C - Cry Baby Blues. You're gonna cry baby. Cry Baby Blues just means good bye baby. | PD Reprint | |
| Cuban Moon | 1920 - m. Joe McKiernan, w. Norman Spencer | PD Reprint | |
| Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine | 1908 - m. Karl Hoschna, w. Otto Harbach | PD Reprint | |
| Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, And You! | 1925 - w. Al Durbin, Billy Rose, m. Joseph Meyer | PD Reprint | |
| Curse of an Aching Heart | 1913 - m. Al Piantadosi, w. Henry Fink | PD Reprint | |
| Daddy Has A Sweetheart And Mother Is Her Name | 1912 - m. Dave Stamper, w. Gene Buck V - Daddy's is love with a dear lady fair, I've been watching him day by day. He calls here his sweetheart and jewel so rare, She smiles in her loving way. C - Daddy has a sweetheart And he's head and heels in love, I have often watched him kiss her While the moon peeped from above | PD Reprint | |
| Daisy Bell | 1892 - w.m. Henry Dacre C - Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true. I'm half crazy over the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, 'Cause I can't afford a carriage . . . N - a.k.a. Bicycle Built For Two | PD Reprint | |
| Dance of the Snowflakes | PD Reprint | ||
| Danny Boy | 1913 - m. Old Irish Air, w. Fred E. Weatherly V - Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go, and I must abide. | PD Reprint | |
| Dapper Dan | 1921 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Lew Brown | PD Reprint | |
| Dardanella | 1919 - m. Felix Bernard, Johnny S. Black, w. Fred Fisher | PD Reprint | |
| Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze | See The Flying Trapeze | ||
| Darktown Dancin' School | m. Albert Gumble, w. Jack Yellen | PD Reprint | |
| Darktown Strutters' Ball | 1917 - w.m. Shelton Brooks V - I've got some good news. honey. An invitation to the Darktown Ball, It's a very swell affair, All the 'high-brows' will be there. C - I'll be down to get you in a taxi honey. You better be ready about half past eight. Now dearie, don't be late, I want to be there when the band starts playing. | PD Reprint | |
| Darling Nellie Gray | 1856 - w.m. B. R. Hanby V - There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore Where we whil'd many happy hours away; A-sitting and singing by the little cottage door Where dwelt my lovely Nellie Gray. C - Oh, my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away, And I'll never see my darling any more; I am sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day, For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore. | PD Reprint | |
| Dat's The Way To Spell Chicken | 1902 - w.m. Bob Slater, Sidney Perrin | PD Reprint | |
| Daughter of Rosie O'Grady | 1918 - m. Walter Donaldson, w. Monty C. Brice | PD Reprint | |
| Dawn Of The Century March | 1900 - m. E.T. Paull | PD Reprint | |
| Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss | 1910 - m. Heinrich Reinhardt, w. Robert B. Smith P - Spring Maid - 1910, Viennese Operetta | PD Reprint | |
| Dead Man Blues | 1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Dear Little Boy of Mine | 1918 - m. Ernest Ball, w. J. Keirn Brennan | PD Reprint | |
| Dear Old Girl | 1903 - m. Theodore F. Moss, w. Rich H. Buck | PD Reprint | |
| Dear Old Pal of Mine | 1918 - m. Lt. Gitz Rice, w. Harold Robe | PD Reprint | |
| Dear Old Southland | 1921 - m. Turner Layton, w. Henry Creamer | PD Reprint | |
| Dearest, You're the Nearest to My Heart | 1922 - m. Harry Akst, w. Benny Davis | PD Reprint | |
| Deep In My Heart Dear | 1924 - w. Dorothy Donnelly, m. Sigmund Romberg | PD Reprint | |
| Desert Song | 1926 - w. Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, m. Sigmund Romberg P - The Desert Song | PD Reprint | |
| Destiny Waltz | m. Sydney Banes | PD Reprint | |
| Dinah | 1925 - w. Same Lewis, Joe Young, m. Harry Akst V - Carolina, Gave me Dinah, I'm the proudest one beneath the Dixie sun. C - Dinah, is there anyone finer in the state of Carolina, If there is and you know 'er, show 'er to me? | PD Reprint | |
| Dirty Hands! Dirty Face! | 1923 - m. James Vincent Monaco (1885-1945), w. Al Jolson (1886-1950), Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie P - Bombo - 1921, Broadway Musical V - Wonderful pals are always hard to find, Some folks have one, Some folks have none. I was alone for years, but fate was kind And in the end, Sent me a friend. C - Dirty Hands, Dirty face, leads the neighbors a chase but his smile, is as cute as can be. Making noise, breaking toys, always fights with the boys | PD Reprint | |
| Dixie Made Us Jazz Band Mad | 1920 - w.m. Howard Johnson, William K. Wells, Irwin Dash | PD Reprint | |
| Dixie Volunteers | w.m. Edgar Leslie, Harry Ruby | PD Reprint | |
| Dizzy Fingers | 1923 - m. Zez Confrey (1895-1971) | PD Reprint | |
| Do Do Do | 1926 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| Do It Again (Please Do It Again) | 1922 - m. George Gershwin, w. B.G. De Sylva P - French Doll - 1922, Musical V - Tell me, tell me, what did you do to me? I just got a thrill that was new to me C - Oh, do it again! I might say no no no no no, but do it again | PD Reprint | |
| Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor | 1924 - w. Billy Rose, Marty Bloom, m. Ernest Breuer P - The Student Prince | PD Reprint | |
| Doll Dance | 1926 - m. Nacio Herb Brown P - Hollywood Music Box Revue | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You | 1915 - m. James Morgan, w. Thomas Hoier | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Blame It On Broadway | 1913 - m. Bert Grant, w. Joe Young, Harry Williams | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Bring Lulu | 1925 - w. Billy Rose, Lew Brown, m. Ray Henderson V - Your presence is requested wrote little Johnny White. But with this invitation there is a stipulation. C - You can bring Pearl, she's a darn nice girl, but don't bring Lulu. You can bring Rose with the turned up nose, but don't bring Lulu. | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Get Married Any More, Ma | 1907 - m. Henry E. Pether, w. Fred W. Leigh | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Mind the Rain | 1924 - w.m. Chester Conn, Ned Miller V - Sorrows were never meant to be, And still the come to you and me, But like the skies of grey They come and go away. So: - C - Don't mind the rain. It's bound to clear up again. For when the clouds go rolling by, A rainbow lights the sky, And all at one time There is sunshine, | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Take Me Home | 1908 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Vincent Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Don't Wake Me Up [Let Me Dream] | 1925 - w. L. Wolfe Gilbert, m. Mable Wayne, Abel Baer V - I'm a dreamer, dreamy dreamer, since I met you, Sweetheart tho' we're apart, In my slumber, I just wonder can it be true? C - Don't wake me up, let me dream, Oh, what a wonderful dream. We're in a land of romantic joy, We two alone, and you are all my own. | PD Reprint | |
| Doo Wacka Doo | 1924 - w.m. Clarence Gaskill, Walter Donaldson, George Horther V - Billy McCoy was a boy who could play, you bet, Oh, how they swaged when he played on his old cornet. He's got a smile and a cute little style that's all his own. C - Doo Wack-a Doo, wack-a-doo, wack-a doo, Nothing to it but it's sweet, That tune goes right to your feet. | PD Reprint | |
| Doodle Doo Doo | 1924 - w.m. Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel | PD Reprint | |
| Down Among the Sheltering Palms | 1915 - m. Abe Olman, w. James Brockman | PD Reprint | |
| Down Among The Sugar Cane | 1908 - m. Cecil Mack, Chris Smith, w. Avery & Hart | PD Reprint | |
| Down By the Old Mill Stream | 1910 - w.m. Tell Taylor | PD Reprint | |
| Down By The Winegar Woiks | 1925 - w.m. Don Bestor, Roger Lewis, Walter Donovan | PD Reprint | |
| Down Hearted Blues | 1923 - m. Lovie Austin, w. Alberta Hunter V - Gee! but its hard to love someone When that someone don't love you. I'm so disgusted, heart broken too, I've got the down hearted blues. C - Cause he mistreated me and he drove me from his door . . . But the good book say you'll reap just what you sow. | PD Reprint | |
| Down In Dear Old New Orleans | 1912 - m. Con Conrad, Jay Whidden, w. Joe Young | PD Reprint | |
| Down in Honky Tonky Town | PD Reprint | ||
| Down In Jungle Town | 1908 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Edward Madden | PD Reprint | |
| Down In The Valley (Birmingham Jail) | PD Reprint | ||
| Down On The Brandywind | 1904 - m. James B. Mullen, w. Vincent Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Down on the Farm | See I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Down On The Farm) | ||
| Down the Trail to Home Sweet Home | PD Reprint | ||
| Down Went McGinty | 1889 - w.m. Joseph Flynn V - Sunday morning just at nine, Dan McGinty dress'd so fine. Stood looking up at a very high stone wall; C - Down went McGinty to the bottom of the wall. And tho' he won the five, He was more dead than alive. | PD Reprint | |
| Down Where the Wurzburger Flows | 1902 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Vincent Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Down Yonder | 1921 - w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert V - Railroad train, Railroad train, Hurry some more. Put a little steam on, just like never before. C - Down yonder someone beckons to me, Down yonder someone reckons on me. I seem to see a race in memory. Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee. | PD Reprint | |
| Dream Girl | 1924 - w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert P - The Dream Girl N - a.k.a. My Dream Girl | PD Reprint | |
| Dreaming | 1906 - m. J. Anton Daily, w. L.W. Heiser | PD Reprint | |
| Dreams | m. Harry Von Tilzer (1872-1946)w. Andrew B. Sterling | PD Reprint | |
| Drifting And Dreaming | 1925 - w. Haven Gillespie, m. Egbert Van Alstyne, Erwin R. Schmidt, Loyal Curtis | PD Reprint | |
| Drill Ye, Tarriers, Drill | 1888 - w.m. Thomas F. Caset V - Oh ev'ry morn at seven o'clock There are twenty tarriers on the rock, The boss come along and says 'be still And put all your power in the cast steel drill'. C - Then, drill, ye tarriers, drill . . . Oh it's work all day without sugar in your tay when ye work beyant on the railway, And drill, ye tarriers, drill. and drill, and drill! | PD Reprint | |
| Drink Drink Drink (Student Prince) | 1924 - W. Donothy Donnelly, m. Sigmund Romberg P - The Student Prince | PD Reprint | |
| El Choclo | 1913 - A. G. Villoldo N - Tango Argentino | PD Reprint | |
| El Relicario | 1918 - m. Jose Padilla, w. Adrian Ross V - I met him on the Pardo, And glanced at him as the other did -- The great Torero, the lordly love, The Pride and passion of all Madrid! C - Step on, my lady, step on in beauty, See from my mantle, The happy cloak where you foot was set. N - Well known Spanish Dance | PD Reprint | |
| Elsie from Chelsea | 1896 - Harry Dacre | PD Reprint | |
| End Of The Road | 1924 - w.m. Harry Lauder & William Dillon | PD Reprint | |
| Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee | PD Reprint | ||
| Entry Of The Gladiators | 1897 - m. Julius Fucik N - Well known circus theme, March, a.k.a. The Gladiator's Entry, Thunder and Blazes | PD Reprint | |
| Erie Canal | See Low Bridge Everybody Down | ||
| Ev'ry Little Bit Helps | 1904 - m. Fred Fisher, w. George Whiting | PD Reprint | |
| Every Day Is Ladies' Day To Me | 1906 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Henry Blossom | PD Reprint | |
| Every Little Bit Added To What You've Got | 1907 - w.m. William A. Dillon, Lawrence M. Dillon V - When I was a boy my father said to me, Always try to be a Carnegie, Save up ev'ry penny boy, that you may earn, And you may in turn have money to burn; C - Ev'ry little bit added to what you've got makes just a little bit more. That's the lesson I learned at school that two and two make four. Save up your pennies and all your rocks | PD Reprint | |
| Every Little Movement | 1910 - m. Karl Hoschna, w. Otto A. Hauerbach V - No longer does the lithesome miss, Cavort in catchy waltz, The two-step and the ragtime bliss, She found alas was false. C - Ev'ry little movement has a meaning all its own, Ev'ry tho't and feeling by some posture can be shown. | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Loves My Baby | 1924 - w.m. Jack Palmer & Spencer Williams V - I'm as happy as a king Feelin' good-n' ev'ry thing I'm just like a bird in spring To to let it out. C - Ev'rybody loves my baby, But my baby don't love nobody but me. Nobody but me. Ev'rybody wants my baby, But my baby don't want nobody but me. | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Rag With Me | 1914 - m. Grace LeBoy, w. Gus Kahn | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Shimmies Now | 1918 - m. Joe Gold, Edmund S. Penney, w. Eugene West | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Step | 1921 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Two Step (Song) | 1912 - m. Wallie Herzer, w. Earl C. Jones | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar | 1919 - m. Billy Baskette, Lew Pollack, w. Billy Rose | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody Works But Father | 1905 - w.m. Jean Havez V - Every morning at siz o'clock I go to my work, Overcoat buttoned up 'round my neck no job would I shirk. C - Everybody works but father And he sits around all day, Feet in front of the fire Smoking his pipe of clay. Mother takes in washing So does sister Ann, Everybody works at my house but my old man. | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody's Crazy 'Bout The Doggone Blues | 1918 - m. Turner Layton, w. Henry Creamer V - Blues ain't nothing but the easy going heart disease, Brother stop your moanin', Blues can't make you warmer if you're bound to freeze C - Ev'ry body's crazy 'bout the doggone blues, but I'm happy, yes happy. Ev'ry body's crazy but if I must choose, no doggone blues for mine. | PD Reprint | |
| Everybody's Doing It Now | 1911 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Honey, honey, cant you hear? Funny, funny music dear; Ain't the funny strain Goin' to your brain? Like a bottle of wine, fine C - Ev'rybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it . . . See that ragtime couple over there, Watch them throw their shoulders in the air | PD Reprint | |
| Everything Is Hotsy-Totsy Now | 1925 - w. Irving Mills, m. Jimmy McHugh | PD Reprint | |
| Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia | 1918 - m. Milt Ager, George W. Meyer, w. Grant Clarke | PD Reprint | |
| Faded Love Letters | 1923 - m. Luella Lockwood Moore (1864-1927), William E. Dulmage (1883-1953), w. Richard W. Pascoe (1888-1968) V - When all the world seems so merry and bright, I'm dreaming of days past recall, Wond'ring if someone can see me tonight, As the tears from my eyes gently fall. C - Faded old love letters, They mean the world to me, Each night I read them over, They are my rosary. | PD Reprint | |
| Fallen Leaf | 1922 - m. Frederic Knight Logan, w. Virginia K. Logan V - Dimly fade the stars at dawn, Softly glows the morning's ray, Thru the pines the West wind blows, Over mountains gray. C - Thru the forest Lone I'm roaming, My heart's calling, Fallen Leaf, With the dawning, I am coming To thy lodge, Fallen Leaf. | PD Reprint | |
| Fare Thee Well, Mollie Darling | 1902 - m. Kerry Mills, w. Will D. Cobb | PD Reprint | |
| Farewell Blues | 1923 - w.m. Rappolo ~ Leon Rappolo V - Sadness just makes me sigh. I've come to say goodbye. Altho I go I've got those farewell blues. C - Those farewell blues make me years That parting kiss seems to burn. Farewell dearie Some day I will return.. | PD Reprint | |
| Fas', Fas' World | PD Reprint | ||
| Fascinating Rhythm | 1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. P - Lady Be Good V - Got a little rhythm. A rhythm, a rhythm That Pit-a-pats through my brain. So darn persistent, The day isn't distant When it'll drive me insane. C - Fascinating Rhythm. You've got me on the go! Fascinating Rhythm I'm all aquiver. What a mess you're making! The neighbors want to know why I'm always shaking Just like a flivver. | PD Reprint | |
| Fascination Waltz | 1905 - m. F.D. Marchetti, w. Maurice de Feraudy V - Jet'ai rencontre simplement, Et tu n'as rien fair pour cher cher a me plaire N - a.k.a. Fascination and Fascination Valse | PD Reprint | |
| Feather Your Nest | 1920 - w.m. James Kendis, James Brockman, Howard Johnson | PD Reprint | |
| Feather Your Next | PD Reprint | ||
| Fidgety Feet | 1926 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| Fido Is A Hot Dog Now | 1914 - m. Raymond Walker, w. Charles McCarron, Thomas J. Gray | PD Reprint | |
| Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal | See Low Bridge Everybody Down | ||
| Finlandia | PD Reprint | ||
| Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue | 1925 - w. Lewis & Young, m. Ray Henderson V - I just saw a maniac, maniac, maniac, Wild, and tearing his hair C - Five foot two, eyes of blue, But oh! what those five foot could do, Has anybody seen my girl? | PD Reprint | |
| Five Little Brown Jugs | PD Reprint | ||
| Floating Along | 1906 - m. Edward Buffington, w. C.C. Pillsbury N - Published Separately as Song and Two Step | PD Reprint | |
| Floreine Waltz | PD Reprint | ||
| Flying Arrow | 1906 - m. Abe Holzmann N - March and Two Step | PD Reprint | |
| Flying Trapeze | 1868 - m. Alfred Lee, w. George Leybourne V - Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn. Like an old coat that is tatter'd and torn. C - He'd float through the air with the greatest of ease. A daring young man on the flying Trapeze. | PD Reprint | |
| Fol-The-Rol-Lol | 1902 - w.m. Fred W. Leigh, Fred Murray V - I just learnt a comical ditty, From some of my friends in the City; The verses are short And I think that you ought To admit that the chorus is pretty. C - With a fol-the-rol-lol, fol-the-rol-lol ! Fol-the-rol-lol-the-rol-lad-dy. Fol-the-rol-lol, fol-the-rol-lol ! Fol-the-rol-lol-the-rol-lad-dy. | PD Reprint | |
| Follow The Swallow | 1924 - w. Billy Rose, Mort Dixon, m. Ray Henderson | PD Reprint | |
| For Me and My Gal | 1917 - m. George Meyer, w. Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz | PD Reprint | |
| For My Sweetheart | 1926 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| For You A Rose | 1917 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb | PD Reprint | |
| Forever Is A Long, Long Time | 1916 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Darl MacBoyle | PD Reprint | |
| Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway | 1905 - w.m. George M. Cohan V - The West, so they say, is the home of the jay, And Missouri's the state that can grind them. This may all be, but just take it from me, You don't have to go out West to find them. C - Only forty-five minutes from Broadway, think of the changes it brings. For the short time it takes, what diff'rence it makes,In the ways of the people and things. | PD Reprint | |
| Four Kings March | 1901 - m. C.W. Dalbey, Ellis Brooks,A.F. Weldon,W.H. Scouton | PD Reprint | |
| From the Land of the Sky Blue Water | 1909 - m. Charles W. Cadman, w. Nellie R. Eberhart | PD Reprint | |
| Gambling Man | 1902 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. William Jerome V - Bill Williams was a gambling man one of the reckless kind, A gamer sport in all the world I'm sure you couldn't find. C - One day its milk and honey, Next day hustling round for money, Ev'ry gamblin' man he knows Easy comes and easy goes. | PD Reprint | |
| Games Of Childhood Days | 1908 - w.m. Will J. Harris, Harry I. Robinson | PD Reprint | |
| Garden Of Roses | 1909 - m. Johann C. Schmid, w. J.E. Dempsey | PD Reprint | |
| Garland Of Old Fashioned Roses | 1912 - m. E. Clinton Keithley, w. C.H. Musgrove | PD Reprint | |
| Gee, But I Hate To Go Home Alone | 1922 - w.m. Joe Goodman, James F. Hanley | PD Reprint | |
| Gee, But It's Great to Meet a Friend from Your Old Home Towm | 1910 - m. James McGavisk, w. William Tracey | PD Reprint | |
| General Pershing | m. Carl D. Vandersloot | PD Reprint | |
| Georgia | 1922 - m. Walter Donaldson, w. Howard Johnson N - NOT Georgia On My Mind, 1930, Hoagy Carmichael | PD Reprint | |
| Ghost Of The Violin | 1912 - m. Ted Snyder, w. Bert Kalmar | PD Reprint | |
| Giannina Mia | 1912 - m. Rudolf Friml, w. Otto Harbach | PD Reprint | |
| Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh? | 1926 - w.m. Roy Turk , Jack Smith, Maceo Pinkard | PD Reprint | |
| Girl Friend | 1926 - w. Lorenz Hart, m. Richard Rodgers P - The Girl Friend | PD Reprint | |
| Girl of Mine | PD Reprint | ||
| Give My Regards to Broadway | 1904 - w.m. George M. Cohan | PD Reprint | |
| Glen Rose March and Two Step | PD Reprint | ||
| Glow-Worm | 1907 - m. Paul Lincke, w. Lilla Cayley Robinson V - When the night falls silently, the night falls silently on forests dreaming, Lovers wander forth to see, they wander forth to see the bright stars gleaming; C - Shine, little glow-worm glimmer, shine little glow-worm glimmer! Lead us, lest too far we wander, Love's sweet voice is calling yonder! | PD Reprint | |
| Go 'Long Mule | 1924 - w.m. Henry Creamer, Robert King N - Novelty Song - 22 Verses | PD Reprint | |
| Golden Days | 1924 - m. Sigmund Romberg. P - The Student Prince V - Down where the necktar flows swiftly alone Nestles a town that is famous in song, Laughing lads roam thro' its streets so quaint, No one's a sinner much less a saint. C - Golden days in the sunshine of our happy youth. Golden days full of innocence and full of truth! In our hearts we remember them all else above. Golden days of youth and love! | PD Reprint | |
| Good Bye Boys | 1913 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling, William Jerome V - Good bye old pals I'm going far away, 'Tis duty calls me and I must obey. C - Good bye boys, I'm going to be married tomorrow, Good bye boys, I'm going from sunshine to sorrow. | PD Reprint | |
| Good Bye Broadway, Hello France | 1917 - m. Billy Baskette, w. C. Francis Reisner, Billy Davis | PD Reprint | |
| Good Bye Dolly Gray | 1900 - m. Paul Barnes, w. Will D. Cobb | PD Reprint | |
| Good Bye Eliza Jane | 1903 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling V - Look a'here Liza, listen to me You ain't the gal you promised to be Didn't you say you always would be true, oo, oo, oo, oo C - Good-bye Eliza Jane, I'm gwine a' for to leave you. Well, you know when I go, that I was the fellow with the dough, dough, dough | PD Reprint | |
| Good Man Is Hard to Find | 1918 - w.m. Eddie Green V - My heart's sad and I am all forlorn, My man's treating me mean, I regret the day that I was born, And that man of mine I've ever seen. C - A good man is hard to find, You always get the other kind. Just when you think that he is your pal, You look for him and find him fooling 'round some other gal. | PD Reprint | |
| Good Morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip | 1918 - w.m. Robert Lloyd V - You come from ev'ry quarter, From North, South, East and West. To clear the way to freedom For the land we love the best. C - Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-=Zip. With you hair cut just as short as mine. Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, You're surely looking fine.. | PD Reprint | |
| Goodbye, Girls, I'm Through | 1914 - m. Ivan Caryll, w. John Golden | PD Reprint | |
| Goodbye, My Lady Love | 1904 - w.m. Joe Howard V - So you're going away Because your heart has gone astray, And you promised me That you would always faithful be. C - Good bye, my lady love. Farewell, my turtle dove, You are the idol and darling of my heart. | PD Reprint | |
| Grandpa's Spells | 1923 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1891-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Great Rock Island Line | 1882 - w.m. J.A. Roff N - Early version of The Wabash Cannonball. Very similar chorus, but not the same tune as best known today. | PD Reprint | |
| Gulf Coast Blues | 1923 - w.m. Clarence Williams V - I've been blue all day. My man's gone away. He left his mamma cold. For another gal I'm told. C - Man that I love he has left me in this town. The man I love has gone, left me in this town. And if it keeps on snowing I will be Gulf Coast bound. | PD Reprint | |
| Gwine to Run All Night | See Camptown Races | ||
| Hail Hail the Gang's All Here | 1908 - m. Theodore F. Morse, Arthur Sullivan, w. D.A. Esrom V - A gang of good fellows are we, are we, are we. With never a worry you see, you see, you see. C - Hail! hail! The gang's all here. What the deuce do we care, what the deuce do we care, Hail! Hail! we're full of cheer, What the deuce do we care, Bill! | PD Reprint | |
| Half of It, Dearie Blues | 1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. P - Lady Be Good | PD Reprint | |
| Happy Birthday To You |
1896 - m. Mildred and Patty Hill, w. Patty Hill
C - Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday dear [friend]. Happy Birthday To You.
N - a.k.a. Good Morning To All alternate verse. Placed in public domain by judicial judgment of USDC Central Court of California |
PD Reprint | |
| Hard Hearted Hannah | 1924 - w.m. Jack Yellen,Milton Ager, Bob Bigelow, Charles Bates | PD Reprint | |
| Harrigan | 1907 - w.m. George m. Cohan | PD Reprint | |
| Has Anybody Seen Kelly? | 1909 - w.m. C.W. Murphy, Will Letters, William C. McKenna | PD Reprint | |
| Hawaiian Butterfly | 1917 - m. Billy Baskette, Joe Santly, w. George A. Little | PD Reprint | |
| He Loves It | 1922 - m. Pete Wendling, w. Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie V - Fools there were, fools there are and fools there'll always be. But the greated fool of all, you see, Has the flat across the hall from me. C - She hits him on the chin ev'ry time he comes in and he loves it, how loves it. He's the 'Perfect Fool' there was . | PD Reprint | |
| He'd Have To Get Under--Get Out and Get Under | 1913 - m. Maurice Abrahams, w. Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie | PD Reprint | |
| He's a Devil In His Own Home Town | 1914 - w.m. Grant Clarke, Irving Berlin V - I've got an Uncle by the name of Jerry. He's got a farm a great big farm C - He's a devil in his own home town, on the level, He's as funny as a clown | PD Reprint | |
| He's A Rag Picker | 1914 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| He's The Hottest Man in Town | 1924 - w.m. Owen Murphy, Jay Gorney | PD Reprint | |
| Heav'n Heav'n (I Got A Robe) | PD Reprint | ||
| Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl | 1909 - m. Baldwin Sloane, w. Edgar Smith | PD Reprint | |
| Hello Bluebird | 1926 - w.m. Cliff Friend | PD Reprint | |
| Hello Central, Give Me Heaven | 1901 | PD Reprint | |
| Hello Hawaii How Are You | 1915 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. Bert Kalamnar, Edgar Leslie | PD Reprint | |
| Hello, Aloha, How Are You? | 1926 - w. I. Wolfe Gilbert, m. Abel Baer | PD Reprint | |
| Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven | 1901 - w.m. Charles K. Harris | PD Reprint | |
| Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land | 1918 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young | PD Reprint | |
| Hello! Ma Baby | 1899 - w.m. Howard and Emerson V - I've got a little baby, but she's out of sight. I talk to her across the telephone. C - Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello ma ragtime gal! Send a kiss by wire. Baby my heart's on fire! | PD Reprint | |
| Hesitation Waltz | 1914 - m. McNair Ilgenfritz N - a.k.a Original Hesitation Walta | PD Reprint | |
| Hiawatha | 1903 - m. Neil Moret, w. James O'Dea N - Published separately as song and piano solo | PD Reprint | |
| Hiawatha's Melody of Love | 1920 - m. George Meyers, w. Alfred Bryan, Artie Mehlinger | PD Reprint | |
| High Society March | 1901 - Porter Steele N - Originally published as a march, became a Jazz standard. Lyrics written by Walter Melrose are not performed. | PD Reprint | |
| Hinky Dinky Parlay-Voo | V - The Cavalry say they won the war, Parlez-vous . . . The Cavalry say they did it all, Shooting craps in empty stall, Hinckey Dinckey Parlez-vous.. C - Oh, Madamoiselle from Marmentiers, Parlez-vous . . She ain't been kissed for forty years, Hinkey Dinkey Parlez-vous. N - a.k.a.Hinckey Dinckey Parlez-Vous | PD Reprint | |
| Hitchy Koo | 1912 - m. Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams, w. L. Wolfe Gilbert | PD Reprint | |
| Holy City | 1892 - m. Stephen Adams, w. F.E. Weatherly V - Last night I lay a-sleeping, There came a dream so fair C - Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . | PD Reprint | |
| Home in Pasadena | 1923 - m. Harry Warren, w. Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie V - Oh! You railway station. Oh! You pullman train! Here's my reservation For my destination Far beyond the western plain. C - Home in Pasadena, Home where grass is greener. Where honey bees hum melodies And orange tress scent the breeze. | PD Reprint | |
| Honest and Truly | 1924 - w.m. Fred Rose | PD Reprint | |
| Honey, I'm Waiting | 1905 - w.m. Ted S. Barron | PD Reprint | |
| Honeysuckle And The Bee | 1901 - m. William H. Penn, w. Albert H. Fitz | PD Reprint | |
| Horses | 1926 - w.m. Richard A. Whiting, Byron Gay | PD Reprint | |
| Horsey Keep Your Tail Up | 1923 - w.m. Walter Hirsch, Bert Kaplan V - Reuben is so silly. He will never wear a hat. Tho' the sun is shining, He don't give a darn for that. C - Oh, Horsey! keep yer tail up . . . Why don't you make it rise? Tell me how you get that way, You mean 'Yes' and say 'Neigh, neigh' | PD Reprint | |
| Hot Lips | 1922 - w.m. Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis V - There's a boy that's in out band And how he blows that horn C - He's got hot lips When he plays Jazz, He draws out steps, Like no one has. | PD Reprint | |
| Hot Time in the Old Town | 1896 | PD Reprint | |
| How Come You Do Me Like You Do | 1924 - w.m. Roy Bergere, Gene Austin | PD Reprint | |
| How Many Times | 1926 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm | 1919 - m. Walter Donaldson, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young | PD Reprint | |
| How'd You Like to Spoon With Me | 1905 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Edward Laska | PD Reprint | |
| I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll | 1919 - w.m. Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams V - Lil' Willie Green from New Orleans a greedy boy was he, For he always wanted a lot a kids, Just to keep him company C - I ain't gonna give nobody none o' this jelly roll, I wouldn't give you piece o' cake to save your soul. My mama told me today When she went away To be a good boy . . . | PD Reprint | |
| I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) | m. Spencer Williams, Dave Peyton, w. Roger Graham V - Say, had a sweetheart once I loved, And I was happy as could be; But now he's gone and left me here For someone else, you see. C - I Ain't Got Nobody, And Nobody Cares for Me. That's why I'm sad and lonely. Say, won't you take a chance with me? N - Early publications credited words David Young, music Charles Wakefield which is believed to be in error. | PD Reprint | |
| I Belong To Glasgow | 1921 - w.m. Will Fyffe V - I've been wi' a few o' ma cronies, One or two pals o' ma ain. We went in a hotel, where we did very well, And then we came out once again. C - I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow town! But what's the matter wi' Gasgow? For it's going round and round. | PD Reprint | |
| I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do | 1900 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb V - On a summer's day in the month of May, a story sweet was toid, By a lonesome lad, With a heart grown sad, To a lass with a heart grown cold. C - I can't tell why I love you, but I do-oo-oo. This world is full of maids the same as you-oo-oo But something I can't tell, Seems to hold me in its spell . . . | PD Reprint | |
| I Cried For You | 1923 - w.m. Arthur Free, Gus Anaheim, Abe Lyman V - I remember other days how I used to weep Over things yhou said to me I couldn't even sleep. You forgot your promises ev'ry single vow. All you did was laugh at me but things are diff'rent now. C - I cried for you, Now it's your turn to cry over me. Ev'ry road has a turning That's one thing you're learning, I cried for you, What a fool I used to be. | PD Reprint | |
| I Don't Want To Get Well | 1917 - m. Harry Jentes, w. Harry Pease, Howard Johnson | PD Reprint | |
| I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard | 1894 - m. Philip Wingate, w. H. W. Petrie V - Once there lived side by side, two little maids. Used to dress just alike, hair down in braids C - I don't want to play in your yard, I don't like you any more. You'll be sorry when you see me, sliding down our cellar door. You can't holler down our rain barrel, you can't climb our apple tree . . . | PD Reprint | |
| I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave | 1906 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb | PD Reprint | |
| I Love A Piano | 1915 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - As a child I went wild when a band played, How I ran to the man when his hand swayed. Clarinets were my pets and a slide trombone I thought was simply divine. C - I love a piano, I love a piano, I love to hear somebody plan upon a piano, A grand piano, It simply carries me away. I know a fine way to treat a Steinway | PD Reprint | |
| I Love Life | 1923 - m. Mana-Zucca, w. Irwin M. Cassel V - I want to live and drink of life's fullness, Take all it can give; I love life, Ev'ry moment count To glory in its sunshine And revel in its fount. | PD Reprint | |
| I Love My Baby | 1925 - w. Bud Green, m. Harry Warren V - Talk about your famous love affairs, Romeo and Juliet had theirs. I just found someone and someone found me. We're not very famous, but who cares? C - I love my baby. My baby loves me. Don't know nobody as happy as we. She's only twenty and I'm twenty-one. We never worry, We're just havin' fun. | PD Reprint | |
| I Love You - Je T'aime! | 1923 - m. Harry Archer, w. English: Harlan Thompson, French: Paul Combis P - Little Jessie James - 1923, Broadway V - Lovers always sing The same familiar thing, 'I love you', I love you, I do.' How nice it would be To do it deff'rently, But now that I'm singing to you: C - 'I love you, I love you', is all that I can say. 'I love you, I love you', the same old words I'm saying in the same old way. | PD Reprint | |
| I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz) | 1907 - m. Franz Lehar, w. Adrian Ross | PD Reprint | |
| I Love You Truly | 1906 - w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond | PD Reprint | |
| I Miss My Swiss | 1925 - w. L. Wolfe Gilbert, m. Abel Baer | PD Reprint | |
| I Never Knew [That Roses Grew] | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Ted Fiorito | PD Reprint | |
| I Used to Love You, But It's All Over Now | 1920 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Lew Brown V - I used to bless the day I first met you, I planned so many things for just us two. But now its plain to see that you have never cared for me. C - I used to love you, but its all over now, All over now, You know it's all over town that you threw me down, But you shouldn't let that kind of story go 'round. | PD Reprint | |
| I Want A Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad | 1911 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Will Dillon | PD Reprint | |
| I Want To Be Happy | 1924 - w. Irving Caesar, m. Vincent Youmans P - No, No Nanette | PD Reprint | |
| I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Down On The Farm) | 1914 - w.m. Irving Berlin N - a.k.a. Down on the Farm | PD Reprint | |
| I Want What I Want When I Want It | 1905 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Henry Blossom | PD Reprint | |
| I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | 1922 - w.m. Armand J. Piron V - Went to a dance with my sister Kate, ev'ry one there said she danced so great C - I Wish I could Shimmy like my sister Kate, She shivers like the Jelly on a plate | PD Reprint | |
| I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't | 1923 - m. George Gershwin, w. B.G. De Sylva, Arthur Francis P - Little Miss Bluebeard - 1923, Broadway 1923-1924 V - You're a very naughty boy when you ask me for a kiss, I'm dismayed, A little bit afraid. C - I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't! I don't say I doi but I don't say I don't! Kissing of any kind Never was on my mind. | PD Reprint | |
| I Wonder What's Become Of Sally? | 1924 - w. Jack Yellen, m. Milt Ager | PD Reprint | |
| I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now | 1909 - m. Joseph E. Howard, Harold Orlob, w. Wil M. Hough, Frank R. Adams P - Prince Of To-Night - 1909, V - You have loved lots of girls in the sweet long ago, And each one has meant heaven to you You have vowed your affection to each one in turn, And have sworn to them all you'd be true; C - I wonder who's kissing her now, I wonder who's teaching her how, Wonder who's looking into her eyes, Breathing sighs, telling lies; | PD Reprint | |
| I'd Climb The Highest Mountain | 1926 - w.m. Lew Brown, Sidney Clare | PD Reprint | |
| I'd Leave Ma Happy Home for You | 1899 | PD Reprint | |
| I'd Love To Live In Loveland With A Girl Like You | 1910 - w.m. W.R. Williams, Leon M. Block, Harry I. Alford | PD Reprint | |
| I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time | 1920 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Neville Fleeson V - I'm writing you dear, just to tell you, In September, you remewmber . . . C - I'll be with you in apple blosson time, I'll be with you to change your name to mine | PD Reprint | |
| I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise | 1922 - m. George Gershwin, w. Ira Gershwin, Bud DeSylva P - Scandals - 1922, Musical V - All you preachers Who delight in panning the dancing teachers Let me tell you there are a lot of features Of the dance that carry you through C - I'll build a stairway to Paradise With a new step ev'ry day! I'm going to get there at any price Stand aside I'm on my way! | PD Reprint | |
| I'll See You In My Dreams | 1924 - w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones | PD Reprint | |
| I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen | 1876 | PD Reprint | |
| I'm A Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird | 1924 - w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyer & Arthur Johnson | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Always Chasing Rainbows | 1918 - m. Harry Carroll, w. Joe McCarthy V - At the end of the rainbow there's happiness, And to find it how often I've tried, But my life is a race, just a wild goose chase, And my dreams have all been denied. C - I'm always chasing rainbow, Watching for clouds drifting by. My schemes are just like all my dreams, Ending in the sky. | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Falling in Love with Someone | 1910 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Rida Johnson Young | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles | 1919 - m. John W. Kellette, w. James Kendis, James Brockman, Nat Vincent V - I'm dreaming dreams I'm scheming schemes I'm building castles high. They're born a new their days are few Just like a sweet butterfly. C - I'm forever blowing bubbles. Pretty bubbles in the air. They fly so high nearly reach the sky, Then like my dreams they fade and die. | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Goin' South | 1923 - w.m. Abner Silver, Harry Woods P - Bombo - 1921, Broadway Musical V - It's just an old time story, One that you've heard before, I left my mammy's fond caress To search the world for happiness. C - Yes, sir! I'm goin' South, Taste the sugar cane right in my mouth, All the world is sweet away down South Where I spent my happy days. | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston | 1925 - w.m. Roy Turk, Lou Handman | PD Reprint | |
| I'm In Love Again | 1925 - w.m. Cole Porter | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers | 1926 - w.m. Fred Rich, Sam Coslow, Harry Link | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Just Wild About Harry | 1921 - w.m. Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Nobody's Baby | 1921 - w.m. Benny Davis, Milton Ager, Lester Santly V - I used to be my mother's baby, When I was near my Dad went wild C - I'm Nobody's baby, I wonder why, Each night and day I pray the Lord up above, Please send me down somebody to love | PD Reprint | |
| I'm On My Way To Mandalay | 1913 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Sitting On Top of The World | 1925 - w. Lewis & Young, m. Ray Henderson | PD Reprint | |
| I'm Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City | 1923 - w.m. Lou Davis, Henry Santly & Abel Baer V - There's no place like home, you never learn that til you roam. Ev'ry place I'd be that little home kept callin' me C - I'm sittin' pretty in a pretty little city down Georgia way. There are no angels near, But it seems like heaven here. | PD Reprint | |
| I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust | 1909 - m. Herman Wade, w. Henry Warner | PD Reprint | |
| I've Got Rings On My Fingers | 1909 - m. Maurice Scott, w. R.P. Weston, F.J. Barnes | PD Reprint | |
| I've Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues | 1923 - w. Lew Brown, m. James F. Hanley, Robert King V - Lately I've been off my nut. I keep hearing nothing but 'YES! We have no bananas'. And I'd like to find the guy Who composed that lullaby C - I've got the 'YES!' We have no banana blues. I've got the blues. And when I hear it, Oh! how I fear it.; It's just like hearing bad news. | PD Reprint | |
| If I Had My Way | 1913 - m. James Kendis, w. Lou Klein V - I'd like to make your golden dreams come true, dear, If I only had my way. A paradise this world would seem to you, dear, If I only had my way. C - If I had my way, dear, forever there's be a garden of roses for you and for me, A thousand and one things, dear, I would do, Just for you, just for you. | PD Reprint | |
| If I Knock the L Out of Kelly | 1916 - m. Bert Grant, w. Joe Young, Sam Lewis | PD Reprint | |
| If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts | 1915 - m. Jimmy Monaco, w. Joe McCarthy C - If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts, We'll Just Be the Same Old Friends | PD Reprint | |
| If You Knew Susie | 1925 - w.m. B.G. De Sylva V - I have got a sweetie known as Susie. In the words of Shakespeare she's a 'wow' C - If you knew Susie like I know Susie Oh! Oh! Oh! What a girl. | PD Reprint | |
| If You Were The Only Girl in the World | 1916 - m. Nat D. Ayer, w. Clifford Grey P - Bing Boys Are Here - 1916, V - Sometimes when I feel bad and things look blue, I wish a girl I had say one like you. C - If I were the only girl in the world, And you were the only boy, Nothing else would matter in world today. | PD Reprint | |
| Il Travatore | PD Reprint | ||
| In A Little Spanish Town | 1926 - w. Sam Lewis, You Young, m. Mabel Wayne | PD Reprint | |
| In A Monastery Garden | PD Reprint | ||
| In Good Old New York Town | 1899 - w.m. Paul Dresser | PD Reprint | |
| In My Merry Oldsmobile | 1905 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Vincent Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| In Old New York | 1906 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Henry Blosson | PD Reprint | |
| In Old New York | See The Streets of New York (In Old New York) | ||
| In Shadowland | 1924 - w. Sam W. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ruth Brooks & Fred E. Ahlert | PD Reprint | |
| In the Evening By the Moonlight | 1878 - w.m. James A. Bland V - In de ebening by de moonlight when dis darkies work was over, We would gather round de fire, 'till de hoecake it was done C - In de ebening by de moonlight, you could hear us darkies singing, In de ebning by de moonlight, you could hear de banjo ringing | PD Reprint | |
| In The Good Old Summertime | 1902 - m. George Evans, w. Ren Shields V - There's a time in each year that we always hold dear, Good old summer time; With the birds and the trees-es and sweet scented breezes, Good old summer time C - In the good old summertime, in the good old summertime. Strolling thro' the shandy lanes With your baby mine; You hold her hand and she holds yours . . . | PD Reprint | |
| In The Middle Of The Night | 1925 - w. Billy Rose, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree | 1905 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Harry H. Williams | PD Reprint | |
| Indian Love Call | 1924 - w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Rudolf Friml P - Rose Marie V - So echoes of sweet love notes gently fall Thru the forest stillness, as fond waiting Indian lovers call! C - When I'm calling you-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo! Will you answer too-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo? That means I offer my love to you to be you own. N - a.k.a The Call | PD Reprint | |
| Indiana (Back Home Again In) | 1917 - m. James.F. Hanley, w. Ballard MacDonald V - I have always been a wand'rer, Over land and sea. Yet a moonbeam on the water Casts a spell o'er me C - Back home again in Indiana, And it seems that I can see The gleaming candle light still shining bright Thru the sycamores for me | PD Reprint | |
| Indiana Moon | 1923 - w. Benny Davis, m. Isham Jones V - Indiana Moon for you I'm pining. Pining ever since I went away. Pretty soon I'm gonna se you shining, For I'm going home today. C - Indiana Moon I miss you. Indiana Moon I'm blue. There's somebody there I long to kiss too, With a heart of love that's ever | PD Reprint | |
| Indianola | 1917 - w.m. S.R. Henry, Domenico Savino | PD Reprint | |
| Iola | 1906 - m. Charles L. Johnson N - Intermezzo Two-Step. The chorus of Iola is the melody to the 1940 hit Playmates by Saxie Dowell. Charles L. Johnson sued and there was an out of court settlement. Playmates words were likely stolen from I Don't Want To Play In Y | PD Reprint | |
| Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came From There | 1916 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Joe McCarthy, Howard Johnson V - I've often heard my daddy speak of Ireland's lake and dells, The place must be like Heaven, if it's half like what he tells. C - Ireland must be Heaven, for an angel came from there. I never knew a living soul one half as sweet or fair. | PD Reprint | |
| It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' | 1923 - w.m. Wendell Hall V - Oh! The night was dark and dreary, The air was full of sleet, The old man stood out in the storm, his shoes were full of feet. C - Oh! It ain't gonna rain no mo' no mo'. It ain't gonna rain no mo'. But how in the world can the old folks tell, It ain't a-gonna rain no mo'. | PD Reprint | |
| It Had To Be You | 1924 - m. Isham Edgar Jones (1894-1956), w. Gus Kahn (1886-1941) V - Why do I do just as you say. Why must I just give you your way. Why do I sigh. Why don't I forget. It must have been something lovers call fate. C - It had to be you. It had to be you. I wander'd around And finally found The somebody who Could make me be true, could make me be blue. | PD Reprint | |
| It's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary | 1912 - w.m. Jack Judge, Harry H. Williams | PD Reprint | |
| It's Nice to Get Up in the Morning | 1913 - w.m. Harry Lauder V - O! ye'll never never never thrive lying in yer bed C - O, it's nice to get up in the morning when the sun begins to shine | PD Reprint | |
| Italian Street Song | 1910 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Rida Johnson Young V - Ah! my heart is back in Napoli, Dear Napoli C - Zing, Zing, zizzy, zizzy,zing, zing, Boom, boom aye | PD Reprint | |
| Ja-Da | 1918 - w.m. Bob Carleton V - You've heard all about your raggy melodies, Ev'ry thing from opera down to harmony, But I've a little song that I will sing to you C - Ja Da, Ja Da, Ja Da, Ja Dah, Jing, Jing, Jing. . . . That's a funny little bit of melody. It's so soothing and appealing to me. | PD Reprint | |
| Japanese Sandman | 1920 - m. Richard Whiting, w. Raymond Egan V - Won't you stretch imagination for the moment and come with me. Let us hasten to a nation lying over the western sea. C - Here's the Japanese Sandman Sneaking on with the dew. Just an old second hand man He'll buy your old day from you. He will take every sorrow Of the day that is through | PD Reprint | |
| Jazz Me Blues | 1921 - w.m. Tom Delaney V - Down in Louisiana in that sunny clime, They play a class of music that is super fine, And it makes no difference if it's rain or shine C - Jazz me, Come on professor and Jazz me. You know I like my dancin' both day and night, And if I don't get my jazzin I Don't feel right | PD Reprint | |
| Jealous | 1924 - w. Tommy Malie & Dick Finch m. Jack Little | PD Reprint | |
| Jealousy [Jalousie - Tango] | 1926 - m. Jacob Gade | PD Reprint | |
| Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair | 1854 - w.m. Stephen Collins Foster V - I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair. Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air. I see here tripping where the bright streams play, Happy as the daisies that dance on her way. C - I long for Jeanie and my heart bows low, Never more to find here where the bright waters flow. | PD Reprint | |
| Jelly Roll Blues | 1915 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) N - No lyrics. | PD Reprint | |
| Jimtown Blues | 1925 - w. Fred Rose, m. Charlie Davis | PD Reprint | |
| Joan Of Arc They Are Calling You | 1917 - m. Jack Wells, w. Alfred Bryan, Willie Weston | PD Reprint | |
| Joe Turner Blues | 1915 - w.m. W.C. Handy V - You'll never miss the water till your well runs dry, You'll never miss Joe Turner tile he say 'Good Bye'. Sweet Babe, I'm goin' to leave you and the time ain't long C - You will be sorry, be sorry from your heart. Sorry to your heart, Some day when you and I must part. And ev'ry time you hear a whisle blow | PD Reprint | |
| Josephine, My Jo | 1901 - m. James T. Brymn, w. Cecil Mack | PD Reprint | |
| June Brought The Roses | 1924 - w. Ralph Stanley m. John Openshaw | PD Reprint | |
| June Night | 1924 - w. Cliff Friend m. Abel Baer | PD Reprint | |
| Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight | 1918 - m. M.K. Jerome, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young | PD Reprint | |
| Just A Bird's Eye View Of My Old Kentucky Home | 1926 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Just A Cottage Small [By A Waterfall] | 1925 - w. B.G. DeSylva, m. James F. Hanley | PD Reprint | |
| Just A Girl That Men Forget | 1923 - w.m. Al Dubin, Fred Rath, Joe Garron V - Dear little girl, they call you a Vamp, A flapper with up to date ways. You may shine brightly just like a lamp, You'll burn out one of these days. C - You're the kind of girl that men forget, Just a toy to enjoy for a while. For when men settle down they always get an old fashioned girl With an old fashioned smile. | PD Reprint | |
| Just A Little Drink | 1925 - w.m. Byron Gay | PD Reprint | |
| Just Around The Corner | 1925 - w. Dolph Singer, m. Harry Von Tilzer | PD Reprint | |
| Just We Two | 1924 - w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg P - The Student Prince | PD Reprint | |
| K-K-K-Katy | 1918 - w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara V - Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold, Katy was a maid with hair of gold, Like an act of fate Kate was standing at the gate, Watching all the boys on dress parade. C - K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy, You're the only g-g-g-girl that I adore. When the m-m-m-moon shines, Over the cow shed, I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door. | PD Reprint | |
| Kansas City Stomp | 1923 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Kashmiri Love Song | PD Reprint | ||
| Kathleen Mavoureen | 1840 - m. F. Nicholls Crouch, w. Mrs. Crawford V - Kathleen Mavoureen! the grey dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill C - . . thou voice of my heart? It may be for years, and it may be forever, Then why art thou silent Kathleen Mavoureen? | PD Reprint | |
| Katinka [Tobias] | 1926 - w. Ben Russell, m. Henry Tobias N - NOT Katinka, 1915, w. Oscar Hauerbach, m. Rudolf Friml | PD Reprint | |
| Keep On The Sunny Side | 1906 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Jack Drislane V - One little boy, one little girl, sat gazing at the moon. Boy's head bowed down, face wore a frown, girl whispered 'why don't we spoon' C - Keep on the sunny side and let dull care pass you by. Just figure out you're a long time dead, Don't start to worry or sigh. | PD Reprint | |
| Keep Smiling At Trouble | 1924 - w. Al Jolson & B. G. De Sylva m. Lewis E. Gensler | PD Reprint | |
| Keep The Home Fires Burning | 1915 - m. Ivor Novello, w. Lena Guilbert Ford C - Keep the Home-Fires Burning 'Till the Boys Come Home | PD Reprint | |
| Kentucky Home | 1914 - m. Eugene Platzmann N - Fox Trot | PD Reprint | |
| King Porter Stomp | 1924 - Jelly Roll Morton | PD Reprint | |
| Kiss in the Dark | 1922 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Bud DeSylva | PD Reprint | |
| Kitten on the Keys | 1921 - m. Zez Confrey | PD Reprint | |
| L'Amour Toujours L'Amour | 1922 - m. Rudolf Friml, w. Catherine Chisholm Cushing V - Ah, love, you've found me at last In my heart is a song. C - L'amour Toujours l'Amour. Love, now last, you've found me. | PD Reprint | |
| La Paloma | 1864 | PD Reprint | |
| La Rosita | 1923 - w. Allan Stuart m. Paul Dupont (Pseud. of Walter Haenschen) V - Tinkling guitar strums a song 'neath a balcony. Glimmering stars glean their silvery light. Slowly the moon rises high o'er the peaceful lea. C - Sweet girl of my dreams hear my song I implore you, Soul of my soul, hear my gay serenade. Deep in my heart I will always adore you. | PD Reprint | |
| Lamplit Hour | PD Reprint | ||
| Lazy | 1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Let It Rain! Let It Pour! (I'll Be In Virginia In The Morning) | 1925 - w. Cliff Friend, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Let Me Call You Sweeetheart | 1910 - m. Leo Friedman, w. Beth Slater Whitson V - I am dreaming Dear of you Day by day. Dreaming when the skies are blue When they're gray C - Let me call you 'Sweetheart' I'm in love with you. Let me hear you whisper that you love me too. Keep the lovelight glowing in your eyes so true. . . | PD Reprint | |
| Let Me Linger Longer In Your Arms | 1924 - w. Cliff Friend m. Abel Baer | PD Reprint | |
| Let the Rest of the World Go By | 1919 - m. Ernest Ball, w. J. Keirn Brennan | PD Reprint | |
| Let's Tallk About My Sweetie | 1926 - w.m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Li'l Liza Jane | 1916 - w.m. Ada DeLachau | PD Reprint | |
| Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) | 1911 - m. Fritz Kreisler | PD Reprint | |
| Limehouse Blues | 1922 - m. Philip Braham, w. Douglas Furber V - In limehouse where yellow chinkies love to play, In limehouse where you can hear those blues all day C - Oh Limehousekid Oh Oh. Oh Limehouse kid Going the way that the rest of them did | PD Reprint | |
| Linger Awhile | 1923 - w. Harry Owens m. Vincent Rose V - The time is coming soon to say good bye, A time of sadness it will be. But Honey listen to my parting sigh, And linger on a while with me. C - The stars shine above you. Yet linger a while' They whisper 'I love you' So linger awhile. | PD Reprint | |
| Listening | 1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin P - Music Box Revue 1925 | PD Reprint | |
| Little Brown Church | 1865 - w.m. William S. Pitts V - There's a church in the valley by the wildwood, No lovelier place in the dale. No spot is so dear to my childhood, as the liitle brown church in the vale. C - Come to the church by the wildwood, Oh come to the church in the dale. No spot is so dear to my childhood, as the liitle brown church in the vale. | PD Reprint | |
| Little Jazz Bird | 1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin P - Lady Be Good | PD Reprint | |
| Little White House At The End Of Honeymoon Lane | 1926 - w. Eddie Dowling, m. James F. Handley P - Honeymoon Lane | PD Reprint | |
| Londonderry Air | See Danny Boy | ||
| Lonesome And Sorry | 1926 - w.m. Benny Davis, Con Conrad | PD Reprint | |
| Lonesome Blues | 1916 - Perry Bradford V - Want someone to love me, want someone to hug me now, Want someone to squeeze me, want someone to teach me how C - Woke up this morning feeling awfully blue, Ain't got no one to tell my trouble to. The fortune teller Has told me little fellow, That I am lonely, lonely | PD Reprint | |
| Lonesomest Girl In Town | 1925 - w. Al Dubin, m. Jimmy McHugh, Irving Mills | PD Reprint | |
| Look for the Silver Lining | 1920 - m. Jerome Kern, w. Bud DeSylva V - Please don't be offended if I preach to you a while, Tears are out of place in eyes that were meant to smile. C - Look for the silver lining When e'er a cloud appears in the blue. Remember somewhere the sun is shining And so the right thing to do is make it shine for you. | PD Reprint | |
| Looking At The World Through Rose Colored Glasses | 1926 - w.m. Tommy Malie, Jimmy Steiger | PD Reprint | |
| Lorena | 1857 - m. J. P. Webster, w. Rev. H. D. L. Webster V - The years creep slowly by, Lorena, More than we ever dared to tell; The snow is on the grass again, The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, The frost gleams where the flow'rs have been. N - Well Known Background Music in Movie 'Gone With The Wind' | PD Reprint | |
| Louisville Lou | 1923 - w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager V - Folks, you've heard of scandalous vamps; History is full of love makin' champs. But if you crave a brand new thrill Come and meet the vamp of Louisville. C - They call the lady Louisville Lou. Oh, what that vampin' baby can do! She is the most heart breakin'est shimmy shakin'est That the world ever knew. | PD Reprint | |
| Love Will Find A Way ~ Blake | 1921 - w.m. Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake V - Come, dear, and don't let out faith weaked, Let's keep our love fires burning bright. Your love for me is heavenly beacon, Guiding me through love's darkest night. C - Clouds will soon roll by Though fate may lead us astray My dearie, mark what I say-- Love will find a way. | PD Reprint | |
| Love Will Find A Way ~ Graham | 1917 - m. Harold Fraser-Simson, w. Harry Graham V - Poor captive So you say I might be rich and free, If I would but betray The friends who trust in me! Vain is the web your cunning weaves! What care I for rewards, reprieves . . . C - What e`er befall, I still recall that sunlit mountain side! Where hearts are true and Love`s the only guide; If faithful to my trust I stay, No fate can fill me with dismay! | PD Reprint | |
| Love's Joy (Liebesfreud) | See Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) | ||
| Loveless Love | 1921 - m. W. C.Handy, w. W. C. Handy V - Love is like a gold brick in a bunco game. Like a bank note with a bogus name. Both have caused many downfalls. Love has done the same. C - Love, oh love, oh loveless love Has set out hearts on goalless goals. From milkless milk, and silkless silk, We are growing used to soulless souls N - a.k.a. Careless Love. Likely from folksong known as early as 1895, it became an early jazz classic. | PD Reprint | |
| Low Bridge Everybody Down | 1913 P - Thomas S. Allen V - I got a mule and her name is Sal C - Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal | PD Reprint | |
| Lucky Day | 1926 - w. Bud DeSylva & Lew Brown, m. Ray Henderson | PD Reprint | |
| M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I | 1916 - m. Harry Tierney, w. Bert Hanlon, Bennie Ryan | PD Reprint | |
| M-O-T-H-E-R | 1915 - m. Theodore F. Morse, w. Howard Johnson V - I've been around the world, you bet, But I never went to school, Hard knocks are all I seem to get, Perhaps I've been a fool. C - M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears were shed to save me, H is for her heart of purest gold . . . | PD Reprint | |
| Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me | 1921 - m. Con Conrad, w. Sidney Clare | PD Reprint | |
| MacNamara's Band | PD Reprint | ||
| Mama Goes Where Papa Goes | 1923 - w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager | PD Reprint | |
| Mama Loves Papa | 1923 - w.m. Cliff Friend & Abel Baer | PD Reprint | |
| Mama's Gone, Goodbye | 1924 - w.m. A. J. Piron & Peter Bocage | PD Reprint | |
| Man I Love | 1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| Mandalay (Burtnett,Lyman,Arnheim) | 1924 - w.m. Earl Burtnett, Abe Lyman & Gus Arnheim | PD Reprint | |
| Mandy Make Up Your Mind | 1924 - w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyer P - Dixie To Broadway | PD Reprint | |
| Manhattan | 1925 - w. Lorenz Hart, m. Richard Rodgers | PD Reprint | |
| March of the Toys | 1903 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Glen MacDonough P - Babes in Toyland - 1903, Musical | PD Reprint | |
| Margie | 1920 - m. Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson, w. Bennie Davis | PD Reprint | |
| Mary Lou | 1926 - w.m. Abe Lyman, George Waggner, J. Russel Robinson | PD Reprint | |
| Mary's A Grand Old Name | 1905 - w.m. George M. Cohan | PD Reprint | |
| Maytime | 1924 - w. Buddy DeSylva, m. Vincent Rose | PD Reprint | |
| Me Too | 1926 - w.m. Harry Woods, Charles Tobias, Al Sherman | PD Reprint | |
| Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis | 1904 - m. Kerry Mills, w. Andrew Sterling | PD Reprint | |
| Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland | 1909 - m. Leo Friedman, w. Beth Slater Whitson | PD Reprint | |
| Memories | 1915 - m. Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Gus Kahn | PD Reprint | |
| Memory Lane | 1924 - w. B. G. De Sylva m. Larry Spier & Con Conrad | PD Reprint | |
| Memphis Blues | 1912 - w.m. William C. Handy V - Folks I've just been down, down to Memphis town, That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while. Hospitality, they were good to me C - They got a fiddler there that always slickens his hair, an' folks he sure do pull some bow, And when the big Bassoon seconds to the Trombones croon, croon N - a.k.a. Mr. Crump | PD Reprint | |
| Memphis Blues - Song | 1908 - m. W. C. Handy, w. George A. Norton P - Honey Boy Minstrels V - Folks, I've just been down, down to Memphis town, That's where the people smile, smile on you all the while C - They got a fidler there that always slickens his hair, an' folks he sure do pull some bow, And when the big Bassoon seconds to the Trombones croon | PD Reprint | |
| The Merry Widow Waltz (with lyrics) | See I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz) | ||
| Mexicali Rose | 1923 - w. Helen Stone, m. Jack B. Tenney V - Mexicali Rose, I'm leaving. Don't feel blue. Mexicali Rose, stop grieving; I love you. C - Mexicali Rose, stop crying; I'll come back to you some sunny day. Ev'ry night you'll know that I'll be pining, Ev'ry hour a year while I'm away. | PD Reprint | |
| Midnight Waltz | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Mighty Lak' a Rose | 1901 - m. Ethelbert Nevin, w. Frank Stanton | PD Reprint | |
| Milenberg Joys | 1925 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Mon Paradis (Serenade d'Aujourd'hui) | 1923 - m. Cuthbert Clarke | PD Reprint | |
| Montmartre Rose | 1925 - w.m. Tommy Lyman | PD Reprint | |
| Moon Love | 1923 - m. Jerome Kern, w. George Grossmith, Jr., P. G. Wodehouse P - The Beauty Prize | PD Reprint | |
| Moonlight and Roses | 1925 - w.m. Edwin H. Lemare, Ben Black, Neil Moret V - When vesper bells are ringing, I hear sweet voices singing, As evening shadows fall. C - Moonlight and roses Bring wonderful mem'ries of you. My heart reposes In beautiful thoughts so true. | PD Reprint | |
| Moonlight Bay | 1912 - m. Percy Weinrich, w. Edward Madden | PD Reprint | |
| Moonlight On The Ganges | 1926 - w. Chester Wallace, m. Sherman Myers | PD Reprint | |
| More We Are Together | 1926 - w.m. Irving King, Pseud: James Alexander Campbell-Tyrie (1903–1967) and Reginald John Connelly (1895–1963) N - "Based on ""Did You Ever See A Lassie""" | PD Reprint | |
| Mother Machree | 1910 - m. Chauncey Olcott, Ernest Ball, w. Rida Johnson Young V - There's a spot in me heart which no colleen may own, There's a depth in me soul never sounded or known; There's a place in my mem'ry, my life, that you fill, No other can take it, no one ever will. C - Sure, I love the dear silver that shines in your hair, And the kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me, Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree! | PD Reprint | |
| Mountain Greenery | 1926 - w. Lorenz Hart, m. Richard Rodgers | PD Reprint | |
| Mountains O' Mourne | PD Reprint | ||
| Mounties | 1924 - w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml P - Rose Marie | PD Reprint | |
| Mr. Crump (Memphis Blues) | See The Memphis Blues | ||
| Mr. Jelly-Lord | 1923 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| My Best Girl | 1924 - w.m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| My Dream Of The Big Parade | 1926 - w. Al Dubin, m. Jimmy McHugh | PD Reprint | |
| My Gal Sal | 1905 - w.m. Paul Dresser | PD Reprint | |
| My Isle of Golden Dreams | 1919 - m. Walter Blaufuss, w. Gus Kahn V - Out of the mist, lips I have kissed, call tenderly. Out of the west, hands I have pressed, Beckon to me. | PD Reprint | |
| My Little Nest Of Heavenly Blue | 1923 - w. A.M. Wilner, Heinz Reichert, Sigmund Spaeth, m. Franz Lehar | PD Reprint | |
| My Mammy | 1920 - m. Walter Donaldson, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young V - Ev'ry thing seems lonely When you start to roam. The birds are singing the day that you stray But wait until you are further away. C - Mammy, Mammy, The sun shines East, the sun shines West, But I just learned where the sun shines best. Mammy Mammy. | PD Reprint | |
| My Man (Mon Homme) | 1921 - m. Maurice Yvain, w. Channing Pollock | PD Reprint | |
| My Melancholy Baby | 1912 - m. Ernie Burnett, w. George A. Norton V - Come sweetheart mine, Don't sit and pine, Tell me of the cares that make you feel so blue. What have I done? Answer me, Hon' C - Come to me, my melancholy baby, Cuddle up and don't be blue; All your fears are foolish fancy, may be, You know dear that I am strong for you. | PD Reprint | |
| My Mother's Rosary | 1915 - m. George Meyer, w. Sam Lewis | PD Reprint | |
| My Sweetie Turned Me Down | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| My Sweetie Went Away | 1923 - w. Roy Turk m. Lou Handman | PD Reprint | |
| My Time Is Your Time | 1924 - w. Eric Little m. Leo Dance | PD Reprint | |
| National Emblem March | 1906 - m. E.E. Bagley | PD Reprint | |
| Neapolitan Nights | 1925 - w. Harrt D. Kerr, m. J.S. Zamecnik | PD Reprint | |
| New Kind Of Man With A New Kind Of Love | 1924 - w.m. Sidney Clare, Leon Flatow | PD Reprint | |
| New Orleans Blues | 1925 - m. Ferd 'Jelly Roll' Morton | PD Reprint | |
| Ninety-Nine Blues | 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 | 1923 - w. Gus Kahn | PD Reprint | |
| Nobody Knows What A Red-Headed Mama Can Do | 1924 - w.m. Irving Mills, Al Dubin, Sammy Fain | PD Reprint | |
| Nobody's Sweetheart | 1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Billie Meyers, Elmer Schobel P - The Vagabond Lover | PD Reprint | |
| Nola | 1916 - m. Felix Arndt N - A Silhouette for the Piano | PD Reprint | |
| O Katharina | 1924 - w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Richard Fall | PD Reprint | |
| O Perfect Love | 1904 - m. Joseph Barnby, w. Dorothy F. Blomfield Gurney V - O Perfect Love . . . all human thought transcending, Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy Throne, That theirs may be the love which knows no ending N - Several alternate tunes by Harry Burleigh and others. | PD Reprint | |
| Oh Didn't It Rain | 1923 - w.m. Eddie Leonard V - We came from far away Upon a summer's day, Didn't it Rain. We went to the Polo Grounds To see a baseball game. Didn't it rain. C - Because it Rained. Didn't it rain. The way it rained it was a shame, We'll never go there again, Because it rained. | PD Reprint | |
| Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly I'm In Love | 1923 - w. Ole Olson, Chick Johnson, m. Ernest Breuer | PD Reprint | |
| Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! | 1917 - m. Abe Olman, w. Ed Rose | PD Reprint | |
| Oh Lady Be Good | 1924 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin P - Lady Be Good | PD Reprint | |
| Oh Miss Hannah | 1924 - w. Thekla Hollingsworth m. Jessie L. Deppen | PD Reprint | |
| Oh You Beautiful Doll | 1911 - m. Nat D. Ayer, w. A. Seymour Brown | PD Reprint | |
| Oh, How I Miss You Tonight | 1924 - w.m. Benny Davis, Joe Burke, Mark Fisher | PD Reprint | |
| Oh! Didn't He Ramble | 1902 - w.m. William H. Handy | PD Reprint | |
| Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning | 1918 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine, He's been in camp for sev'rl weeks and he was looking fine; C - Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning, Oh, how I'd love to remain in bed; For the hardest blow of all, is to hear the bugler call; You've got to get up this morning. | PD Reprint | |
| Oh! Mabel | 1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ted Fio Rito | PD Reprint | |
| Oh! What A Pal Was Mary | 1919 - m. Pete Wendling, w. Edgar Leslie, Bert Kalmar | PD Reprint | |
| Old Fashioned Love | 1923 - w. Cecil Mack m. James P. Johnson | PD Reprint | |
| Old Grey Mare | 1918 - m. Traditional | PD Reprint | |
| Old King Tut | 1923 - w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer | PD Reprint | |
| Old Rugged Cross | PD Reprint | ||
| On Miami Shore | 1919 - m. Victor Jacobi, w. William LeBaron | PD Reprint | |
| On The Beach at Waikiki | 1915 - m. Henry Kailimai, w. G.H. Stover | PD Reprint | |
| On The Mall | 1923 - m. Edwin Franko Goldman | PD Reprint | |
| Once In A Blue Moon | 1923 - w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern | PD Reprint | |
| One Alone | 1926 - w. Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Sigmund Romberg P - The Desert Song | PD Reprint | |
| One I Love Belongs To Someone Else | 1924 - w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones | PD Reprint | |
| Only A Rose | 1925 - w. Brian Hooker, m. Rudolf Friml | PD Reprint | |
| Orange Grove In California | 1923 - w.m. Irving Berlin (1888-1989) | PD Reprint | |
| Out Where The Blue Begins | 1923 - Graff, McHugh, Grant | PD Reprint | |
| Over There | 1917 - w.m. George m. Cohan | PD Reprint | |
| Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile Smile Smile | 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 | 1925 - w.m. Harry Woods | PD Reprint | |
| Pal Of Mine | 1905 - m. Joseph S. Nathan, w. Bartley Costello | PD Reprint | |
| Pal of My Cradle Days | 1925 - w. Marshall Montgomery, m. Al Piantadosi | PD Reprint | |
| Pal That I Loved Stole the Gal That I Loved | 1924 - w.m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson | PD Reprint | |
| Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers | 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 | 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 | 1924 - w.m. Noel Coward | PD Reprint | |
| Pasadena | 1924 - Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren | PD Reprint | |
| Pearls | 1923 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Peg O' My Heart | 1913 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Alfred Bryan | PD Reprint | |
| Play A Simple Melody | 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 | 1926 - w. Julius Brummer, Alfred Grunwald, Harry B. Smith, m. Emmerich Kalman | PD Reprint | |
| Play That Barbershop Chord | 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) | ||
| Pomp and Circumstance - No 1 in D | 1902 - m. Edward Elgar N - March traditionally used for graduation ceremonies. | PD Reprint | |
| Poor Papa. He Got Nuthin' At All | 1926 - w. Billy Rose, m. Harry Woods | PD Reprint | |
| Pop Goes the Weasel | 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 | |
| Pretty Baby | 1916 - m. Tony Jackson, Egbert Van Alstyne, w. Gus Kahn | PD Reprint | |
| Pretty Girl is Like a Melody | 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 | 1924 - m. Elmer Schoebel | PD Reprint | |
| Prisoner's Song | 1924 - w.m. Guy Massey | PD Reprint | |
| Put Away A Little Ray Of Golden Sunshine | 1924 - w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young m. Fred Ahlert | PD Reprint | |
| Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet | 1909 - m. Percy Weinrich, w. Stanley Murphy | PD Reprint | |
| Put Your Arms Around Me. Honey | 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 | |
| Raggedy Ann | 1923 - w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern | PD Reprint | |
| Ragging the Scale | 1915 - m. Edward B. Claypool | PD Reprint | |
| Ragtime Cowboy Joe | 1912 - m. Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams, w. Grant Clarke | PD Reprint | |
| Reaching For The Moon [Davis-Greer] | 1926 - w.m. Benny Davis, Jessee Greer N - NOT Reaching For The Moon, 1931, w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Red Hot Mama | 1924 - w.m. Gilbert Wells, Bud Cooper & Fred Rose | PD Reprint | |
| Red Wing | 1907 - m. Kerry Mills, w. Thurland Chattaway V - There once lived an Indian maid, A shy little prairie maid, Who sang a lay, a long song gay, As on the plain she'd while away the day. C - Now, the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing, the breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying, For afar 'neath his star her brave is sleeping, While Red Wing's weeping her heart away. | PD Reprint | |
| Rememb'ring | 1923 - w.m. Vivian Duncan & Rosetta Duncan | PD Reprint | |
| Remember | 1925 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Rhapsody In Blue | 1924 - m. George Gershwin N - Harms Music 1924 Publication: Sheet Music | PD Reprint | |
| Rings on My Fingers | See I've Got Rings On My Fingers | ||
| Riverboat Shuffle | 1925 - m. Hoagy Carmichael & Irving Mills | PD Reprint | |
| Roamin' In The Gloamin' | 1911 - m. Harry Lauder, w. George Grafton | PD Reprint | |
| Rock-A-Bye My Baby Blues | 1924 - w. Larry Yoell, m. Billy Hill | PD Reprint | |
| Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody | 1918 - m. Jean Schwartz, w. Sam Lewis, Joe Young | PD Reprint | |
| Rose Marie | 1924 - w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml P - Rose Marie | PD Reprint | |
| Rose Of Washington Square | 1919 - m. James F. Hanley, w. Ballard MacDonald | PD Reprint | |
| Roses of Picardy | 1916 - m. Haydn Wood, w. Frederick E. Weatherly | PD Reprint | |
| Row Row Row | 1912 - m. James V. Monaco, w. William Jerome | PD Reprint | |
| Royal Garden Blues | 1919 - w.m. Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams V - No use of talkin' no use of talkin' You'll start in dog walkin' no matter where. There's jazz-copation blues modulation, Just like a Haitian you'll rip and tear. Most ev'rybody likes the blues. C - Hon, don't you hear that trombone moan? Just listen to that saxophone. You'll hear 'em playin' you'll hear 'em playing. Soon you'll be sayin' 'Hon jazz me round' | PD Reprint | |
| Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown (What You Going' to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round?) | See What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes 'Round | ||
| Santa Claus Blues | 1924 - w.m. Charley Straight, Gus Kahn V - The merry bells are ringing today But they don't mean nothing to me. I hear the children singing to day but I'm as blue as I can be C - No money, no honey to buy a present for me; Nobody, no toddy to make things pleasant for me. | PD Reprint | |
| Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow | 1925 - w. B.G. De Sylva, m. Al Sherman | PD Reprint | |
| Say It Again [I Don't Believe It But] | 1926 - w. Harry Richman, m. Abner Silver | PD Reprint | |
| Say It With Music | 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 | |
| School Days | 1906 - m. Gus Edwards, w. Will D. Cobb | PD Reprint | |
| Second Minuet | 1924 - w. Aubrey Dowdon , m. Maurice Besly | PD Reprint | |
| Sentimental Me (And Romantic You) | 1925 - w. Lorenz Hart, m. Richard Rodgers | PD Reprint | |
| Serenade (Student Prince) | 1924 - w. Dorothy Donnelly, m. Sigmund Romberg P - The Student Prince | PD Reprint | |
| Serenade from the Millions of Harlequin | PD Reprint | ||
| Seven Or Eleven | 1923 - w. Lew Brown m. Walter Donaldson V - At the railroad station Almost ev'ry day Hangin' round the porters therd Tryin' hard to win his fare You'll see Rufus Johnson Gamblin' his dough away. C - Seven or eleven means ev'ry thing to me. Means I'm gonna see my Mammy, Down in sunny Alabammy. | PD Reprint | |
| She Is Ma Daisy | 1905 - m. Harry Lauder, w. J.D. Harper | PD Reprint | |
| Sheik of Araby | 1921 - m. Ted Snyder, w. Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler V - Over the desert wild and free Rides the bold Sheik of Araby. His Arab band At his command, Follow his love's caravan. C - I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At night when you're a sleep Into your tent I'll creep. | PD Reprint | |
| Shine | 1924 - w. Cecil Mack & Lew Brown m. Ford T. Dabney | PD Reprint | |
| Shine On, Harvest Moon | 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 | |
| Show Me The Way [1924] | 1924 - w. Benny Davis, m. Ted Lewis, Frank Ross V - Sweetheart since first that I met you I fell in love at a glance. C - Show me the way to make you love me. Show me the way to win your heart. | PD Reprint | |
| Show Me The Way To Go Home | 1925 - w.m. Irving King, Pseud: James Alexander Campbell-Tyrie (1903–1967) and Reginald John Connelly (1895–1963) V - When I'm happy singing all the while. I don't need nobody then to show me how to smile. C - Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a drink about an hour ago, And it's gone right to my head. | PD Reprint | |
| Shreveport Stomp | 1925 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Sidewalk Blues | 1926 - m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) | PD Reprint | |
| Silver Threads Among The Gold | 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 | |
| Since Ma Is Playing Mahjong | 1924 - w.m. Billy Rose, Con Conrad | PD Reprint | |
| Sipping Cider Thru A Straw | 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 | |
| Sittin' In A Corner | 1923 - w. Gus Kahn m. George W. Meyer | PD Reprint | |
| Sleep | 1923 - w.m. Earl Lebieg | PD Reprint | |
| Sleepy Head | 1926 - w.m. Benny Davis, Jesse Greer | PD Reprint | |
| Sleepy Time Gal | 1925 - w. Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan, m. Ange Lorenzo, Richard B. Whiting | PD Reprint | |
| Smile Will Go A Long Long Way | 1923 - w.m. Benny Davis, Harry Akst V - Smiling faces always find a welcome, That's why ev'ry one should learn to smile. C - When you're blue, and kinda lonely too, You'll find a smile will go a long, long way. | PD Reprint | |
| Smilin' Through | 1918 - w.m. Arthur A Penn | PD Reprint | |
| So Am I | 1925 - w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| So Long, Oo-Long (How Long You Gonna Be Gone?) | 1920 - w.m. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby | PD Reprint | |
| Sobbin' Blues | 1923 - w.m. Art Kassel | PD Reprint | |
| Some of These Days | 1910 - w.m. Shelton Brooks V - Two sweethearts in a country town, the neighbors say, Lived happily the whole day long, Until one day he told her he must go away; C - Some of these days You'll miss me, honey, Some of these days You'll feel so lonely; You'll miss my hugging, You'll miss my kissing | PD Reprint | |
| Some Other Day, Some Other Girl | 1924 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Isham Jones | PD Reprint | |
| Some Sweet Day | 1923 - w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper & Louis A. Hirsch V - Ever since I've been here I've been kind of lonely, Every little dear leaves me by my only. But I just feel that some sweet day I'll meet a girl that likes my way. C - Some sweet day some cutie'll Come my way, some beauty, And she may lead me astray. | PD Reprint | |
| Somebody Knows | 1915 - w.m. Harry Von Tilzer | PD Reprint | |
| Somebody Loves Me | 1924 - w. Ballard MacDonald, B. G. De Sylva, m. George Gershwin P - George White's Scandals of 1924 | PD Reprint | |
| Somebody Stole My Gal | 1918 - w.m. Leo Wood | PD Reprint | |
| Someone To Watch Over Me | 1926 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| Sometime | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Ted Fiorito | PD Reprint | |
| Song Of The Flame | 1925 - w. Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, m. Herbert Stothart, George Gershwin P - Song of the Flame | PD Reprint | |
| Song Of The Vagabonds | 1925 - w. Brian Hooker, m. Rudolf Friml P - The Vagabond King | PD Reprint | |
| Song That Stole My Heart | 1913 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew B. Sterling | PD Reprint | |
| Spain | 1924 - w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones | PD Reprint | |
| St. Louis Blues | 1914 - w.m. William C. Handy V - I hate to see de evening sun go down . . .Cause ma baby he done lef dis town. Feelin' tomorrow lak ah feel today I'll pack my trunk make ma git away C - Got de St. Louis Blues jes blue as ah can be. Dat man got a heart lak a rock cast in the sea. Or else he woulden't gone so far from me. N - a.k.a. Saint Louis Blues | PD Reprint | |
| Stella | 1923 - w.m. Al Jolson, Benny Davis & Harry Akst | PD Reprint | |
| Streets of New York (In Old New York) | N - a.k.a. In Old New York | PD Reprint | |
| Strike Up the Band - Here Comes a Sailor | 1900 - m. Charles B. Ward, w. Andrew Sterling | PD Reprint | |
| Sugar Blues | 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 | |
| Sunday | 1926 - w.m. Ned Miller, Chester Conn, Jule Styne, Bennie Krueger | PD Reprint | |
| Sunshine Of Your Smile | 1915 - m. Lillian Ray, w. Leonard Cooke | PD Reprint | |
| Swanee | 1919 - m. George Gershwin, w. Irving Caesar | PD Reprint | |
| Swanee Butterfly | 1925 - w. Bily Rose, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Swanee River Moon | 1921 - w.m. H. Pitman Clarke | PD Reprint | |
| Sweet Adeline | See You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline | ||
| Sweet And Low-Down | 1925 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| Sweet Georgia Brown | 1925 - w.m. Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey V - She just got here yesterday. Things are hot here now they say. There's a big change in town. C - No gal made has got a shade On Sweet Georgia Brown. Two left feet but oh so neat has Sweet Georgia Brown. | PD Reprint | |
| Sweet Indiana Home | 1922 - w.m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Sweet Little You | 1924 - w.m. Irving Bibo | PD Reprint | |
| Sweet Mamma (Papa's Getting' Mad) | 1920 - s.m. Fred Rose, George A. Little, Peter L. Frost | PD Reprint | |
| Sweet Rosie O'Grady | 1896 - w.m. Maude Nugent V - Just down around the corner of the street where I reside, There lives the cutest little girl that I have ever spied. C - Sweet Rosie O'Grady, My dear little Rose, She's my steady lady, Most ev'ry one know, And when we are married, How happy we'll be | PD Reprint | |
| Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi | PD Reprint | ||
| Swingin' Down the Lane | 1923 - w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones V - There's a nightingale callin'; Out where moonbeams are fallin', He's makin' love to a red, red rose C - Ev'rybody hand in hand, Swingin' down the lane, Ev'rebody feelin' grand, Swingin' down the lane. | PD Reprint | |
| Syncopated Walk | 1914 - w.m. Irving Berlin V - Strange, but there's a change In how the people walk these days. Yes! You must confess that ever since the dancing craze ev'ry body has a syncopated walk. C - Look at 'em doin' it. That syncopated walk. Look at 'em doin' it. I know who introduced it. Wait'll he reaches you. Wait'll he teaches you. | PD Reprint | |
| Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do | w.m. Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins V - There ain't nothin' I can do nor nothin' I can say, That folks don't criticise me, But I'm gonna do just as I want to any way, And don't care if they despise me. C - Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do. | PD Reprint | |
| Take Me Out To The Ball Game | 1908 - m. Albert Von Tilzer, w. Jack Norworth V - Katy Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad; Just to root for the home town crews, ev'ry sou Katie blew C - Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd, Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don't care if I never get back | PD Reprint | |
| Take Your Girlie To The Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home) | 1919 - m. Pete Wendling, w. Edgar Leslie, Bert Kalmar V - Beatrice Fairfax gives advice to anyone in love C - Take your girlie to the movies if you can't make love at home | PD Reprint | |
| Tamiami Trail | 1926 - w.m. Cliff Friend, Joseph H. Santly | PD Reprint | |
| Tea For Two | 1924 - w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans | PD Reprint | |
| Teddy Bear's Picnic | 1907 - m. John W. Bratton N - Lyrics NOT PD. Lyrics added in 1932, Jimmy Kennedy | PD Reprint | |
| Tell Her In the Springtime | 1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| Tell Me With A Melody | 1923 - w.m. Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989) | PD Reprint | |
| Temptation Rag | 1909 - m. Henry Lodge, w. Lou Weslyn | PD Reprint | |
| Thanks For The Buggy Ride | 1925 - w.m. Jules Buffano | PD Reprint | |
| That Certain Feeling | 1925 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| That Certain Party | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| That Haunting Melody | 1911 - w.m. George M. Cohan | PD Reprint | |
| That International Rag | 1913 - w.m. Irving Berlin | PD Reprint | |
| That Mysterious Rag | 1911 - w.m. Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder | PD Reprint | |
| That Old Gang of Mine | 1923 - w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson V - I've got a longin' way down in my heart. For that old gang that has drifted apart. They were the best pals that I ever had, I never thought I'd want them so bad. C - Gee, but I'd give the world to see that old gang of mine. I can't forget than old quartette that sand 'Swet Adeline'. | PD Reprint | |
| That Tumbledown Shack in Athlone | 1918 - m. Monte Carlo, Alma M. Sanders, w. Richard W. Pascoe | PD Reprint | |
| That's A Plenty | 1909 - w.m. Bert Williams,Henry Creamer V - Twas in a hen coop one dark night I stopped to rest myself; And to my great surprise I spied some pullets on a shelf C - Mister, Mister, Oh listen like a friend No use to argue, just let the matter end. | PD Reprint | |
| That's an Irish Lullaby | See Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral | ||
| Then I'll Be Happy | 1925 - w. Sidney Clare, Lew Brown, m. Cliff Friend | PD Reprint | |
| There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight | See A Hot Time in the Old Town | ||
| There's A Little Bit Of Bad in Every Good Little Girl | 1916 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Grant Clarke V - Nobody ever sings about the bad girls, because the bad girls are sad And ev'ry body sings about the good girls because the good girls are glad. C - There's a little bit of bad in ev'ry good little girl. They're not to blame. Mother Eve was very, very good, But even she raised Cain. | PD Reprint | |
| There's A Long, Long Trail | 1913 - m. Zo Elliott, w. Stoddard King V - Nights are growing very lonely, Days are very long. C - There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams. | PD Reprint | |
| There's A New Star In Heaven Tonight | 1926 - w. Irving Mills, J. Keirn Brennan, m. Jimmy McHugh | PD Reprint | |
| There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes | 1924 - w. Cliff Friend m. Joseph H. Santly | PD Reprint | |
| They Called Her Frivolous Sal | See My Gal Sal | ||
| They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me | 1917 - m. Fred Fisher, w. Joe McCarthy V - I hate to talk about myself, But here's one time I must. Your confidence I'll trust, I have to speak or bust. C - They go wild simply wild over me, They go mad just as mad as they can be. No matter where I'm at, All the ladies thin or fat . . . Ev'ry night how they fight over me. | PD Reprint | |
| Thinking Of You [I've Grown So Lonesome] | 1926 - w. Paul Ash, m. Walter Donaldson | PD Reprint | |
| Till We Meet Again | 1918 - m. Richard A. Whiting, w. Raymond B. Egan V - There's a song in the land of the lily Each sweetheart has heard with a sigh Over high garden walls This sweet echo falls As a soldier boy whispers good bye C - Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu When the clouds roll by I'll come to you.Then the skies will seem more blue Down in lovers lane | PD Reprint | |
| Tin Roof Blues | 1923 - w. Walter Melrose, m. New Orleans Rhythm Kings | PD Reprint | |
| Ting-A-Ling [Waltz Of The Bells] | 1926 - w. Addy Britt, m. Jack Little | PD Reprint | |
| Tonight You Belong To Me | 1926 - w. Billy Rose, m. Lee David V - Once more we meet, You look so sweet, Dear, can't you see how I feel? C - Though you belong to somebody else, Tonight you belong to me. Though we're apart, you're part of my heart, Tonight you belong to me. | PD Reprint | |
| Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral | 1913 - w.m. James.Royce Shannon V - Over in Killarney, Many years ago, Me Mither sang a song to me In tones so sweet and low. Just a simple little ditty, In her good ould Irish way C - Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Hush now, don't you cry! Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, Too-ra-loo-ra-li, Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's an Irish Lullaby. | PD Reprint | |
| Toot, Toot, Tootsie | 1922 - w.m. Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo | PD Reprint | |
| Totem-Tom-Tom | 1924 - w. Oscar Hammerstein II & Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml P - Rose Marie | PD Reprint | |
| Toyland | 1903 - m. Victor Herbert, w. Glen MacDonough V - When you've grown up my dears, And are as old as I, You'll often ponder on the years That roll so swiftly by, my dears, That roll so swiftly by . . . C - Toyland. Toyland. Little girl and boy land. While you dwell within it, You are ever happy then. Childhood's joy-land. Mystic merry Toyland, Once you pass it's borders, You can never return again. | PD Reprint | |
| Trail of the Lonesome Pine | 1913 - m. Harry Carroll, w. Ballard MacDonald | PD Reprint | |
| Turkey in the Straw | 1834 N - Originally known as Zip Coon | PD Reprint | |
| Twelfth Street Rag | 1916 - m. Euday L. Bowman N - Ragtime Arrangement Only - No Lyrics | PD Reprint | |
| Twelfth Street Rag - Song | 1919 - m. Euday L. Bowman, w. James S. Sumner V - In a certain city where the girls are cute and pretty C - First you slide and then you glide, then shimmie for a while | PD Reprint | |
| Ukelele Lady | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Richard A. Whiting | PD Reprint | |
| Under The Anheuser Bush | 1903 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling V - Talk about the shade of the sheltering palms, Praise the bamboo tree and its wide spreading charms, There's a little bush that grows right here in town . . . C - Come, come, come and make eyes with me, Under the Anheuser Bush. Come, Come, drink some | PD Reprint | |
| Valencia | 1925 - w. Lucien Boyer, Jacques Charles, Clifford Grey, m. Jose Padilla | PD Reprint | |
| Vive L'Amour | See Vive la Compagnie | ||
| Vive la Compagnie | 1818 or earlier - English Traditional V - Let Bacchus to Venus libations pour fast, Vive la compagnie. And let us make use of our time to the last, Vive la compagnie. C - Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour, vive la, vive la, vive l'amour, Vive l'amour, vive l'amour, Vive la compagnie. | PD Reprint | |
| Wait 'Til the Sun Shine Nellie | 1905 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling | PD Reprint | |
| Wait Till My Ship Comes In | 1898 - m. Max S. Witt, w. George Taggart | PD Reprint | |
| Waitin' For The Evenin' Mail | 1923 - Billy Baskette | PD Reprint | |
| Waiting for the Robert E. Lee | 1912 - m. Lewis F. Muir, w. L. Wolfe Gilbert | PD Reprint | |
| Waltz Me Around Again, Willie | 1906 - m. Ren Shields, w. Will D. Cobb | PD Reprint | |
| Wang Wang Blues | 1921 - m. Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson, Henry Busse, w. Leo Wood | PD Reprint | |
| Washington and Lee Swing | PD Reprint | ||
| Way Down Yonder in New Orleans | 1922 - w.m. Henry Creamer, Turner Layton V - Guess! Where do you think I'm going when the winds start blowing strong? Guess! Where do you think I'm going when the nights start growing long? C - Way down yonder in New Orleans In the land of dreamy scenes There's a garden of Eden. That's what I mean. | PD Reprint | |
| West Of The Great Divide | 1924 - w. George Whiting, m. Ernest R. Ball | PD Reprint | |
| What Has Become Of Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo | 1924 - w.m. Al Dubin, Irving Mills, Jimmy McHugh, Irwin Dash V - Do you ever think of the time when all of the boys went 'cross the sea, To the land of Wee Wee Wee, Where they rolled with Sweet Marie C - What has become of 'Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo'? . . . Maybe she still is true to you and true to the rest of the army, too. Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo N - Has 26 verses. | PD Reprint | |
| What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes 'Round | 1905 - m. Harry Von Tilzer, w. Andrew Sterling C - Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown, What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes 'Round | PD Reprint | |
| What'll I Do | 1924 - w.m. Irving Berlin P - Music Box Revue of 1923 | PD Reprint | |
| When Clouds Have Vanished And Skies Are Blue | 1923 - m. Charles L. Johnson, w. William R. Clay V - Sweetheart, of you I am dreaming. Here in the sunset glow; And while the night winds are bringing Thot's of the long ago. C - When clouds have vanished and skies are blue, I'll come back, sweetheart, to you. Back to the best pal I ever knew, Your smiles and your love so true. | PD Reprint | |
| When Do We Dance | 1925 - w. Ira Gershwin, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| When Irish Eyes Are Smiling | 1912 - m. Ernest Ball, w. Chauncey Olcott, George Graff V - There's a tear in your eye, And I'm wondering why, For it never should be there at all. C - When Irish eyes are smiling, Sure it's like a morn in Spring. In the lilt of Irish laughter, You can hear the angels sing. | PD Reprint | |
| When It's Night Time In Italy, It's Wednesday Over Here | 1923 - w.m. James Kendis, Lew Brown | PD Reprint | |
| When June Comes Along With A Song | 1923 - w.m. George M. Cohan (1878-1942) | PD Reprint | |
| When My Baby Smiles at Me | 1919 - m. Bill Munro, w. Andrew Sterling, Ted Lewis | PD Reprint | |
| When My Sugar Walks Down The Street | 1924 - w.m. Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh & Irving Mills V - I know a thing or two And I'm telling you I've got a wonderful gal. She's got the cutest smile. A million dollar style. C - When my sugar goes down the street All the little birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet, And in the ev'ning when the sun goes down It's never dark when she's around. | PD Reprint | |
| When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' | 1926 - w.m. Harry Woods V - I heard a robin this morning, I'm feeling happy today. Goin' to pack my cares in a whistle, And blow them all away. C - When the red, red, robin comes bob, bob, bobin' a long, along. There'll be no more sobbin' When he starts throbbin' his old sweet song. | PD Reprint | |
| When the Saints Go Marching In |
1925 - Origin Unknown, Likely Black Spiritual, 1896 or earlier
V - When the saints go marching in. When the saints go marching in. Lord I want to be among that number When the saints go marching in.
C - Verse2: When the graves give up their dead. Verse3: When they crown Him Lord of all.
N - Earliest published version as song is known today was likely in 1925 By Theo Harris. 'March In' with a 1925 copyright notice was addended to a reprinting of his 1919 hymnal 'Songs Of his Coming'. A hymn published in 1896, When the Saints Are Marching In, w. Katharine E. Purvis, m. James M. Black, is similar but far from exact. |
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| When You and I Were Seventeen | 1924 - w. Gus Kahn m. Charles Rosoff | PD Reprint | |
| When You and I Were Young, Maggie | 1866 - w. George W. Johnson, m. James Austin Butterfield V - I wandered today to the hill, Maggie, To watch the scene below! The creek and the creaking old mis, Maggie, As we used to long a go. C - Maggie, Since you and I were young. | PD Reprint | |
| When You Walked Out Someone Else Walked Right In | 1923 - w.m. Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989) V - My honey do you remember 'twas a December day, I said that you would repent the day that you went away. C - When you walked out someone else walked right in. Someone with good news stepped right in your shoes. | PD Reprint | |
| When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose | 1914 - m. Percy Weinrich, w. Jack Mahoney | PD Reprint | |
| Where Do You Work-a John? | 1926 - w.m. Mortimer Weinberg, Charley Marks, Harry Warren N - Push-a Push-a Push' Comic Song with Many Verses | PD Reprint | |
| Where The Lazy Daisies Grow | 1924 - w.m. Cliff Friend | PD Reprint | |
| Where'd You Get Those Eyes | 1926 - w.m. Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman | PD Reprint | |
| Whiffenpoof Song | 1909 - m. Tod Galloway, w. Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy V - From the tables down at Mory's, to the place where Judas dwells, to the dear old Temple Bar we love so well. C - We are poor little lambs who have gone astray. Baa Baa Baa. We are little black sheep who have lost our way. Baa Baa Baa. | PD Reprint | |
| Whispering | 1920 - m. John Schonberger, w. Malvin Schonberger V - Honey I have something to tell you And it's worthwhile listening to C - Whispering while you cuddle near me, Whispering so no one can hear me. | PD Reprint | |
| Whispering Hope | 1868 - w.m. Alice Hawthorne V - Soft as the voice of an angel, Breathing a lesson unheard. Hope with a gentle persuasion, Whispers her comforting word C - Whispering Hope, Oh how welcome thy voice. Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice. N - Alice Hawthorne is pseudonymn for Septimus Winner | PD Reprint | |
| Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter | 1925 - w.m. Chick Endor V - I know that Babe Ruth makes home runs And Dempsey is the champ. Marconi made the radio and Cleopatra was a vamp. C - Who takes care of the caretaker's daughter While the caretaker's busy taking care? Gee! Oh! Gosh oh! Gee! That's what worries me. | PD Reprint | |
| Who? | 1925 - m. Jerome Kern | PD Reprint | |
| Who'll Buy My Violets | 1923 - w. E. Ray Goetz m. Jose Padilla | PD Reprint | |
| Who's Sorry Now? | 1923 - w. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, m. Ted Snyder P - A Night In Casablanca - The Marx Brothers V - You smiled when we parted, It hurt me somehow, I thought there were was nothing worthwhile. The tables are turning And you're crying now C - Who's sorry now? . . .Whose heart is aching for breaking each vow? Who's sad and blue? Who's crying too? Just like I cried over you. | PD Reprint | |
| Why Did I Kiss That Girl? | 1924 - w. Lew Brown m. Robert A. King & Ray Henderson | PD Reprint | |
| Why Do I Love You? | 1925 - w. Ira Gershwin, Bud DeSylva, m. George Gershwin | PD Reprint | |
| Wild Flower | 1923 - w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Vincent Youmans & Herbert Stothar | PD Reprint | |
| Wolverine Blues | 1923 - w.m. Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, Benjamin Spikes & John C. Spikes | PD Reprint | |
| Wreck On The Southern Old 97 | 1924 - w.m. Henry Whitter V - They gave him up his order at Monroe Vaginia, saying Steve you're way behind time. This is not 'Thirty Eight' but it's 'Old Ninety-seven', You must put her in Spencer on time. N - a.k.a. Wreck Of The Old 97 (1944) | PD Reprint | |
| Yearning (Just For You) | 1925 - w.m. Benny Davis, Joe Burke | PD Reprint | |
| Yellow Dog Blues | 1914 - m. W. C. Handy | PD Reprint | |
| Yes Sir! That's My Baby | 1925 - w. Gus Kahn, m. Walter Donaldson V - Who's that coming down the street? Who's that looking so petite? C - Yes, Sir, That's my Baby. No, Sir, Don't mean Maybe. Yes, Sir, That's my Baby now. | PD Reprint | |
| Yes! We Have No Bananas | 1923 - w.m. Frank Silver & Irving Cohn V - There's a fruit store on out street. It's run by a Greek. And he keeps good thing to eat. But you should hear him speak. C - YES! We have no bananas. We have no bananas today. We've string beans and HONions, cabBAHges and scallions And all kind of fruit and say | PD Reprint | |
| You'll Never Miss Your Mother Until She's Gone | 1923 - Sung by Ethel Waters | PD Reprint | |
| You're Just A Flower From An Old Bouquet | 1924 - w. Gwynne Denni, m. Lucien Denni | PD Reprint | |
| You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline | 1903 - m. Harry Armstrong, w. Richard Gerard Husch | PD Reprint | |
| You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night | 1923 - w.m. Con Conrad & Billy Rose | PD Reprint | |
