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DOVER MUSICAL ARCHIVES
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The Aba Daba Honeymoon - W&M: ARTHUR FIELDS & WALTER DONOVAN (1914)
Abide with Me - W: HENRY F. LYTE (1847) / M: WILLIAM H. MONK (1861)
Ach, du Lieber Augustin - AUSTRIAN DRINKING SONG
After the Ball - W & M: CHARLES K. HARRIS (1892)
After You’ve Gone - W & M: HENRY CREAMER & TURNER LAYTON (1918)
Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life - W: RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG / M: VICTOR HERBERT
Ah! Vous Dirai-je, Maman - FRENCH FOLK SONG
Alexander’s Ragtime Band - W & M: IRVING BERLIN (1911)
Alice Blue Gown - W: JOSEPH Mc CARTHY / M: HARRY TIERNEY
All God’s Children Got Shoes - SPIRITUAL
All Night, All Day - SPIRITUAL
All Through the Night - WELSH FOLK SONG
Alouette - FRENCH-CANADIAN CHILDREN’S “ACCUMULATION” SONG
The Alphabet Song - CHILDREN’S PLAY SONG
Amazing Grace - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
America (My Country! ’Tis of Thee) - W: SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH (1831) M: ANON.
America the Beautiful - W: KATHERINE LEE BATES (1895) M: SAMUEL A. WARD (1882)
Anchors Aweigh - SONG OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY W & M: CAPT. ALFRED H. MILES, U.S.N. (Ret.) & CHARLES A. ZIMMERMAN (1907)
Angels, from the Realms of Glory - W & M: JAMES MONTGOMERY (19th c.)
Angels We Have Heard on High - TRADITIONAL FRENCH NOEL
Annabel Lee - W: EDGAR ALLAN POE (1849-50) / M: ANON.
Annie Laurie - W: WILLIAM DOUGLAS(?) (l8th c.) M: LADY JOHN SCOTT (1835)
The Ash Grove - WELSH FOLK SONG
As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
Asleep in the Deep - W: ARTHUR J. LAMB / M: H. W. PETRIE (1897)
At a Georgia Campmeeting (A Song in Black) - W & M: KERRY MILLS (1897)
Au Clair de la Lune - FRENCH FOLK SONG
Auld Lang Syne - W: ROBERT BURNS (late 18th c.) M: ANON.
Auprès de Ma Blonde - FRENCH MARCHING SONG
Aura Lea - W: W. W. FOSDICK / M: GEORGE R. POULTON (1861)
Ave Maria - W: LATIN HYMN / M: VARIOUS SETTINGS:
Away in a Manger - TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS SONG
Baa! Baa! Black Sheep - NURSERY SONG
Ballin’ the Jack - W: JAMES H. BURRIS / M: CHRIS SMITH (1913)
La Bamba - MEXICAN FOLK SONG
The Band Played On - W & M: JOHN F. PALMER (1895)
Barbara Allen - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
The Battle Cry of Freedom - W & M: GEORGE F. ROOT (1862)
Battle Hymn of the Republic - W: JULIA WARD HOWE (1862) M: “GLORY, HALLELUJAH” (Anon., 1857?)
Beautiful Dreamer - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1864)
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere - W: JESSIE B. POUNDS / M: J. S. FEARIS (1897)
Beautiful Ohio - W: BALLARD MACDONALD / M: “MARY EARL” [Robert A. King] (1918)
Because - W: EDWARD TESCHEMACHER M: “GUY D’HARDELOT” [Helen Guy] (1902)
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms - W: THOMAS MOORE (1808) / M: TRADITIONAL IRISH MELODY
The Belle of Av’noo “A” - W & M: SAFFORD WATERS (1895)
The Bells of St. Mary’s - W: DOUGLAS FURBER / M: A. EMMETT ADAMS (1917)
Be My Little Baby Bumblebee - W: STANLEY MURPHY / M: HENRY I. MARSHALL (1912)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home? - W & M: HUGHIE CANNON (1902)
Billy Boy - TRADITIONAL
A Bird in a Gilded Cage - W: ARTHUR J. LAMB / M: HARRY VON TILZER (1900)
Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair - APPALACHIAN FOLK SONG
Blow the Man Down - HAULING CHANTY (possibly British) (19th c.)
The Blue Bells of Scotland - W: ANNIE McVICAR GRANT (1799) / M: ANON.
The Boar’s Head Carol - TRADITIONAL ENGLISH
Bobby Shaftoe - SCOTTISH FOLK SONG
The Bowery - W: CHARLES H. HOYT / M: PERCY GAUNT
Brahms’ Lullaby (“Wiegenlied”) - GERMAN WORDS & ENGLISH TRANSLATION: ANON. M: JOHANNES BRAHMS (No. 5 of Fünf Lieder, Op. 49 / 1868)
Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heav’nly Light - CHRISTMAS SONG
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella! - FRENCH NOEL ENGLISH WORDS: EDWARD C. NUNN
Bringing in the Sheaves - W: KNOWLES SHAW / M: GEORGE A. MINOR
Brother, Come and Dance with Me - W: ORIGINAL GERMAN (“Brüderchen komm tanz mit mir”) BY ADELHEID WETTE M: ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Buffalo Gals - W & M: “COOL WHITE” [John Hodges]
By the Beautiful Sea - W: HAROLD R. ATTERIDGE / M: HARRY CARROLL (1914)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon - W: ED MADDEN / M: GUS EDWARDS (1909)
The Caissons Go Rolling Along - SONG OF THE UNITED STATES ARTILLERY W & M: MAJOR EDMUND L. GRUBER (1907)
The Campbells Are Comin’ - TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH
Camptown Races - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1850)
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines - W & M: WILLIAM HORACE LINGARD (1868)
Carolina in the Morning - W: GUS KAHN / M: WALTER DONALDSON (1922)
Carol of the Bells - UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS CAROL
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny - W & M: JAMES A. BLAND (1878)
Casey Jones - W: T. LAWRENCE SEIBERT / M: EDDIE NEWTON (1909)
The Cavalry Song - SONG OF THE UNITED STATES CAVALRY W & M: ANON.
Charlie Is My Darling - SCOTTISH FOLK SONG
The Cherry Tree Carol - TRADITIONAL ENGLISH
A Child This Day Is Born - ENGLISH CAROL
China Boy - W & M: DICK WINFREE & PHIL BOUTELJE (1922)
Chinatown, My Chinatown - W: WILLIAM JEROME / M: JEAN SCHWARTZ (1910)
The Chisholm Trail - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
Cielito Lindo
Clementine - W & M: PERCY MONTROSE (1884)
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (The Red, White and Blue) - W: DAVID T. SHAW / M: THOMAS A. BECKETT (1843)
Come Back to Erin - W & M: “CLARIBEL” [Charlotte Alington Barnard] (1866)
Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine (Up She Goes!) - W: ALFRED BRYAN / M: FRED FISCHER [later, Fisher] (1910)
Come, Thou Almighty King - W: CHARLES WESLEY (18th c.) / M: FELICE GIARDINI
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye - TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH
The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla) - W: ROBERT CROO (1534) / M: ANON.
La Cucaracha - MEXICAN FOLK SONG
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine - W: “O. A. HAUERBACH” [Otto Harbach] / M: KARL HOSCHNA
Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow! - W & M: JOSEPH TABRAR (1892)
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) - W & M: HARRY DACRE (1892)
Danny Boy - W: FREDERICK E. WEATHERLY (1855) M: “THE LONDONDERRY AIR”
Dardanella - W: FRED FISHER / M: FELIX BERNARD & JOHNNY S. BLACK (1919)
The Darktown Strutters’ Ball - W & M: SHELTON BROOKS (1917)
The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady - W: MONTY C. BRICE / M: WALTER DONALDSON (1918)
Deck the Halls - W & M: THOMAS OLIPHANT (19th c.)
Deep River - SPIRITUAL
Dixie (Dixie’s Land) - W: TRADITIONAL / M: DANIEL EMMET (ca. 1859)
Dona Nobis Pacem - THREE-PART LATIN ROUND
Down Among the Sheltering Palms - W: JAMES BROCKMAN / M: ABE OLMAN (1915)
Down by the Old Mill Stream - W & M: TELL TAYLOR (1910)
Down by the Riverside - SPIRITUAL
Down in Alabam’ (Ain’t I Glad I Got Out de Wilderness) - TRADITIONAL
Down in My Heart - SPIRITUAL
Down in the Valley - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Down Where the Wurzburger Flows - W: VINCENT P. BRYAN / M: HARRY VON TILZER (1902)
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill! - W & M: THOMAS CASEY (?) (1888)
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes - W: BEN JONSON (17th c.) / M: ANON.
Dry Bones - SPIRITUAL
East Side, West Side (The Sidewalks of New York) - W & M: CHARLES B. LAWLOR & JAMES W. BLAKE (1894)
Eency Weency Spider - CHILDREN’S FINGER-PLAY SONG
The Erie Canal - AMERICAN WORK SONG
Every Day Is Ladies’ Day with Me - W: HENRY BLOSSOM / M: VICTOR HERBERT
Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia - W: GRANT CLARKE / M: MILTON AGER & GEORGE W. MEYER (1918)
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel - SPIRITUAL
Far Above Cayuga’s Waters - W: ARCHIBALD C. WEEKS & WILMOT. M. SMITH (1872) M: H. S. THOMPSON (1858)
The Farmer in the Dell - NURSERY SONG
The First Nowell - ENGLISH CHRISTMAS CAROL
The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring - W: W. S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton - W: ROBERT BURNS (before 1818) / M: J. E. SPILMAN (1838)
The Foggy, Foggy Dew - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow - TRADITIONAL
For Me and My Gal - W: EDGAR LESLIE & E. RAY GOETZ / M: GEORGE W. MEYER (1917)
Forty-five Minutes from Broadway - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN
Forty-nine Bottles - TRADITIONAL DRINKING SONG
Frankie and Johnny
Frère Jacques - FRENCH CHILDREN’S ROUND
Froggie Went a-Courtin’ - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Funiculi, Funiculà - ORIGINAL ITALIAN LYRICS: G. TURCO ENGLISH VERSION: EDWARD OXENFORD M: LUIGI DENZA (ca. 1880)
Get on Board, Little Children - SPIRITUAL
Gimme That Old-Time Religion - SPIRITUAL
The Girl I Left Behind Me - IRISH BALLAD
Git Along Home, Cindy - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Give My Regards to Broadway - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN
The Glow-Worm (“Glühwürmchen”) - ENGLISH WORDS: LILLA CAYLEY / M: PAUL LINCKE
God of Our Fathers - W: GEORGE W WARREN / M: DANIEL C. ROBERTS
Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go) (Down in Egypt Land) - SPIRITUAL
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - ENGLISH CAROL
God Save the King/(Queen) - TRADITIONAL ENGLISH ANTHEM
Goober Peas - TRADITIONAL AMERICAN
Good-Bye! - W: C. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE / M: F. PAOLO TOSTI (1881)
Goodbye, Broadway! Hello, France! - W: C. FRANCIS REISNER & BENNY DAVIS M: BILLY BASKETTE (1917)
Good Bye, My Lady Love - W & M: JOSEPH E. HOWARD (1904)
Goodbye, Old Paint - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
Good King Wenceslas - W: REV. JOHN MASON NEALE (1853) / M: ANON.
Goodnight, Ladies - W & M: E. P. CHRISTY (1847)
Go Tell Aunt Rhody - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Go, Tell It on the Mountain - SPIRITUAL
Go ’Way f’om Mah Window - LAMENT FROM THE OZARKS
Grandfather’s Clock - W & M: HENRY CLAY WORK (1876)
Greensleeves - W: RICHARD JONES? (1580) / M: ANON. (before 1652)
Gypsy Love Song (Slumber On, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart) - W: HARRY B. SMITH / M: VICTOR HERBERT
Hail Columbia - W: JOSEPH HOPKINSON / M: PHILIP FAYLES (ca. 1790)
Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here! - W: “D. A. ESROM” M: THEODORE MORSE (?) & SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Hallelujah Chorus - W: COMPILED & ADAPTED BY CHARLES JENNENS M: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane - SPIRITUAL
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - W: CHARLES WESLEY (1739) M: FELIX MENDELSSOHN (ca. 1840)
The Harp That Once Thro’ Tara’s Halls - W: THOMAS MOORE (ca. 1810) / M: ANON.
Harrigan - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? - W & M: C. W MURPHY & WILL LETTERS
Havah Nagilah - ISRAELI DANCE-SONG
Hello Central, Give Me Heaven - W & M: CHARLES K. HARRIS (1901)
Hello! Ma Baby - W & M: JOSEPH E. HOWARD & IDA EMERSON (1899)
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand - SPIRITUAL
Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha) - W: JAMES O’DEA / M: NEIL MORET (1903)
Hindustan - W & M: OLIVER G. WALLACE & HAROLD WEEKS (1918)
Hinky Dinky Parlay-Voo (Mademoiselle from Armentières) - TRADITIONAL WORLD WAR I SONG
The Holly and the Ivy - ENGLISH CAROL
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! - W: REGINALD HEBER / M: JOHN B. DYKES
Home on the Range - W: DR. BREWSTER M. HIGLEY / M: DANIEL E. KELLEY (ca. 1872)
Home! Sweet Home! - W: JOHN HOWARD PAYNE / M: HENRY R. BISHOP
A Hot Time in the Old Town - W: JOE HAYDEN / M: THEODORE A. METZ (1896)
How’ Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?) - W: SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG / M: WALTER DONALDSON (1919)
Hush, Little Baby - AMERICAN LULLABY
I Ain’t Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) - W: DAVID YOUNG / M: CHARLES WARFIELD (1914)
I Am the Captain of the Pinafore - W: W S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General - W: W S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider - W: EDDIE LEONARD / M: EDDIE MUNSON (1903)
I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier - W: ALFRED BRYAN / M: AL. PIANTADOSI (1915)
I’d Leave Ma Happy Home for You - W: WILL A. HEELAN / M: HARRY VON TILZER (1899)
I Don’t Care - W: JEAN LENOX / M: HARRY O. SUTTON (1905)
I Don’t Want to Play in Your Yard - W: PHILIP WINGATE / M: H. W PETRIE (1894)
If I Had My Way - W: LOU KLEIN / M: JAMES KENDIS (1913)
If You’ll Be M-I-N-E Mine - AMERICAN TRADITIONAL
If You’re Happy (And You Know It) - CHILDREN’S PLAY SONG
I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle) - ENGLISH BALLAD
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - W: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1864) M: ANON.
I Hear You Calling Me - W: HAROLD HARFORD / M: CHARLES MARSHALL (1908)
I’ll Fly Away - SPIRITUAL
I’ll Say She Does - W & M: BUD DE SYLVA, GUS KAHN & AL JOLSON (1918)
I’ll See You in C-U-B-A - W & M: IRVING BERLIN (1920)
I’ll Take, You Home Again, Kathleen - W & M: THOMAS P. WESTENDORF (1876)
I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz) - ENGLISH WORDS: ADRIAN ROSS / M: FRANZ LEHAR (1907)
I Love You Truly - W & M: CARRIE JACOBS-BOND (1907)
I’m Afraid to Come Home in the Dark - W: HARRY WILLIAMS / M: EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE (1907)
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows - W: JOSEPH Mc CARTHY / M: HARRY CARROLL
I’m Called Little Buttercup - W: W S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
I’m Falling in Love with Some One - W: RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG / M: VICTOR HERBERT
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles - W & M: “JAAN KENBROVIN” & “JOHN W KELLETTE” (1919)
I Might Be Your “Once-in-a-While” - W: ROBERT B. SMITH / M: VICTOR HERBERT
Indiana - W: BALLARD MACDONALD / M: JAMES F. HANLEY (1917)
In My Merry Oldsmobile - W: VINCENT BRYAN / M: GUS EDWARDS (1905)
In the Bleak Midwinter - W: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1872) / M: ANON.
In the Gloaming - W: META ORRED / M: ANNE F. HARRISON (1877)
In the Good Old Summertime - W: REN SHIELDS / M: GEORGE EVANS (1902)
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree - W: HARRY H. WILLIAMS / M: EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE (1905)
In the Sweet Bye and Bye - W: S. F. BENNETT / M: J. P. WEBSTER (1868)
I Ride An Old Paint - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
I Saw Three Ships - ENGLISH CAROL
Italian Street Song (Zing, Zing) - W: RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG / M: VICTOR HERBERT
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - W: EDWIN H. SEARS / M: RICHARD S. WILLIS (19th c.)
It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary - W & M: JACK JUDGE & HARRY WILLIAMS (1912)
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
I’ve Got a Little List - W: W S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
I’ve Got My Captain Working for Me Now - W & M: IRVING BERLIN (1919)
I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers (Mumbo Jumbo Jijjiboo J. O’Shea) - W: R. P. WESTON & F. J. BARNES / M: MAURICE SCOTT (1909)
I’ve Got Sixpence - BRITISH MARCHING SONG
I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) - W: WILLIAM DILLON / M: HARRY VON TILZER (1911)
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - W: WILL M. HOUGH & FRANK R. ADAMS M: JOSEPH E. HOWARD & HAROLD ORLOB (1909)
Jacob’s Ladder - SPIRITUAL
Ja Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing Jing Jing!) - W & M: BOB CARLETON (1918)
J’ai du Bon Tabac - FRENCH CHILDREN’S PLAY SONG
The Japanese Sandman - W: RAYMOND B. EGAN / M: RICHARD A. WHITING (1920)
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1854)
Jesus Loves Me - TRADITIONAL
Jim Crack Corn (The Blue Tail Fly) - W & M: F. D. BENTEEN (1846)
Jingle Bells (One Horse Open Sleigh) - W & M: JAMES PIERPONT (1857)
John Brown - TRADITIONAL CIVIL WAR SONG
John Henry - AMERICAN WORK SONG
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt - CHILDREN’S PLAY SONG
Johnny Get Your Gun - W & M: “F. BELASCO” [M. H. Rosenfeld] (1886)
John Peel - W: JOHN WOODCOCK GRAVES M: “BONNIE ANNIE” (19th c. English folk song)
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho - SPIRITUAL
Joy to the World - W: ISAAC WATTS (1719) / M: ANON.
Judgment Day Is Rolling ’Round - SPIRITUAL
Kalinka - RUSSIAN FOLK SONG
The Kerry Dance - W & M: JAMES LYMAN MOLLOY (1879)
Kingdom Coming - W & M: HENRY CLAY WORK (1862)
K-K-K-Katy - W & M: GEOFFREY O’HARA (1918)
Kookaburra - THREE-PART ROUND FROM AUSTRALIA W: M. SINCLAIR / M: ANON.
Kumbayah - AFRICAN FOLK SONG
Lavender’s Blue - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I’m in Love with You) - W: BETH SLATER WHITSON / M: LEO FRIEDMAN (1910)
Let the Rest of the World Go By - W: J. KEIRN BRENNAN / M: ERNEST R. BALL (1919)
Listen to the Mocking Bird - W: “ALICE HAWTHORNE” [Septimus Winner] M: RICHARD MILBURN (1855)
Little Annie Rooney - W & M: MICHAEL NOLAN (1889)
A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure They Call It Ireland) - W: J. KEIRN BRENNAN / M: ERNEST R. BALL (1914)
The Little Brown Jug - W & M: “R. A. EASTBURN” [Joseph Winner] (1869)
Little ’Liza Jane - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Loch Lomond - SCOTTISH FOLK SONG
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming - W: ANON. GERMAN (16th c.) ENGLISH VERSION BY DR. THEODORE BAKER M: TRADITIONAL
London Bridge - ENGLISH CHILDREN’S PLAYING SONG
Londonderry Air - TRADITIONAL IRISH
Lonesome Valley - SPIRITUAL
Long, Long Ago - W & M: THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY (1833)
Looby Loo - CHILDREN’S PLAY-BATHING SONG
Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses - W: LESLIE COOKE / M: JOHN OPENSHAW (1919)
Love’s Old Sweet Song (Just a Song at Twilight) - W: G. CLIFTON BINGHAM / M: JAMES L. MOLLOY (1884)
Ma (He’s Making Eyes at Me) - W: SIDNEY CLARE / M: CON CONRAD (1921)
Macnamara’s Band - W: JOHN J. STAMFORD / M: SHAMUS O’CONNOR (1917)
Macushla - W: JOSEPHINE V. ROWE / M: DERMOT MACMURROUGH (1910)
Madelon (I’ll Be True to the Whole Regiment) - W: ORIGINAL FRENCH BY LOUIS BOUSQUET ENGLISH VERSION BY ALFRED BRYAN M: CAMILLE ROBERT (1918)
Malbrouk s’en Va-t-en Guerre - FRENCH MARCHING SONG
(The Man on) The Flying Trapeze - W: GEORGE LEYBOURNE / M: ALFRED LEE (1867)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - W & M: FRED GILBERT (1892)
Marching Through Georgia - W & M: HENRY CLAY WORK (1865)
Margie - W: BENNY DAVIS / M: CON CONRAD & J. RUSSEL ROBINSON (1920)
The Marines’ Hymn - W: L. Z. PHILLIPS (?) (1919) (uncertain authorship) M: JACQUES OFFENBACH
La Marseillaise - FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM W & M: CLAUDE ROUGET DE LISLE (1792)
Mary Had a Baby - SPIRITUAL
Mary Had a Little Lamb - NURSERY SONG
Maryland! My Maryland! - W: JAMES RYDER RANDALL (1861) M: TRADITIONAL (anonymous tune to the German poem “O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum!”)
Mary’s a Grand Old Name - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN
Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1852)
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis - W: ANDREW B. STERLING / M: KERRY MILLS (1904)
Meet Me To-night in Dreamland - W: BETH SLATER WHITSON / M: LEO FRIEDMAN (1909)
Memories - W: GUSTAVE (GUS) KAHN / M: EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE (1915)
Michael Finnegan - CHILDREN’S NONSENSE SONG
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore - SPIRITUAL
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Mighty Lak’ a Rose - W: FRANK L. STANTON / M: ETHELBERT NEVIN (1901)
The Minstrel Boy - W: THOMAS MOORE / M: ANON. (1813)
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I - W: BERT HANLON & BENNY RYAN M: HARRY TIERNEY (1916)
Missouri Waltz - W: “J. R. SHANNON” [James Royce] M: FREDERICK KNIGHT LOGAN (1916)
Molly Malone (Cockles ’n’ Mussels) - POPULAR IRISH SONG (ca. 1850?)
Molly, Put the Kettle On! - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Moonlight Bay - W: EDWARD MADDEN / M: PERCY WENRICH (1912)
M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me) - W: HOWARD JOHNSON / M: THEODORE F. MORSE (1915)
Mother Machree - W: RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG M: CHAUNCEY OLCOTT & ERNEST R. BALL (1910)
Mother, Pin a Rose on Me - W & M: DAVE LEWIS, PAUL SCHINDLER & BOB ADAMS (1905)
The Mulberry Bush - CHILDREN’S PLAYING SONG
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean - SCOTTISH SONG
My Buddy - W: GUS KAHN /M: WALTER DONALDSON (1922)
My Gal Sal (They Called Her Frivolous Sal) - W & M: PAUL DRESSER (1905)
My Heart’s in the Highlands - W: ROBERT BURNS (ca. 1787) M: TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH
My Hero - ORIG. GER. WORDS: RUDOLPH BERNAUER & LEOPOLD JACOBSON ENG. VERSION: STANISLAUS STRANGE / M: OSCAR STRAUS
(My Luve Is Like) A Red, Red Rose - W: ROBERT BURNS (ca. 1787) M: TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH
My Melancholy Baby - W: GEORGE A. NORTON / M: ERNIE BURNETT (1912)
My Old Kentucky Home - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1853)
My Wild Irish Rose - W & M: CHAUNCEY OLCOTT
Nearer, My God, to Thee - W: SARAH F. ADAMS / M: LOWELL MASON (1859)
Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems to Care) - W & M: IRVING BERLIN (1919)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen - SPIRITUAL
“O” (Oh!) - W: BYRON GAY / M: BYRON GAY & ARNOLD JOHNSON (1919)
O Canada! - CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM W & M: CALIXA LAVALLÉE, JUDGE ROUTHIER & JUSTICE R. S. WEIR
O Christmas Tree - TRADITIONAL CAROL
O Come All Ye Faithful - TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CAROL
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - CHRISTMAS CAROL
O God, Our Help in Ages Past - W: ISAAC WATTS / M: WILLIAM CROFT
Oh, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
Oh by Jingo! Oh by Gee! (You’re the Only Girl for Me) - W: LEW BROWN / M: ALBERT VON TILZER
Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Oh, Dem Golden Slippers - W & M: JAMES BLAND (1879)
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning - W & M: IRVING BERLIN
Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening - THREE-PART ROUND FROM ENGLAND
O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël) - W: ORIGINAL FRENCH BY CAPPEAU DE ROQUEMAURE ENGLISH VERSION BY JOHN S. DWIGHT (19th c.) M: ADOLPHE ADAM (ca. 1845?)
Oh, Johnny Oh! - W: ED ROSE / M: ABE OLMAN (1916)
Oh, Promise Me! - W: CLEMENT SCOTT / M: REGINALD DE KOVEN
Oh, Susanna - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1848)
Oh, What a Pal Was Mary - W: EDGAR LESLIE & BERT KALMAR / M: PETE WENDLING (1919)
Oh, Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone? - W: ENGLISH VERSION BY SEPTIMUS WINNER (1864) M: GERMAN FOLK SONG
Oh, Won’t You Sit Down? - STATEMENT-AND-RESPONSE SPIRITUAL
Oh! You Beautiful Doll - W: A. SEYMOUR BROWN / M: NAT D. AYER (1911)
Old Black Joe - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1860)
The Old Chisholm Trail - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
Old Dan Tucker - AMERICAN SQUARE-DANCE SONG
Old Folks at Home - W & M: STEPHEN C. FOSTER (1851)
The Old Grey Mare (The Whiffle Tree) - TRADITIONAL AMERICAN
Old Hundred - W: PSALM 134 (from the Genevan Psalter, edition of 1551) ENGLISH VERSION BY THOMAS STERNHOLDE (?) (1560) M: LOUIS BOURGEOIS
Old Joe Clarke - AMERICAN SQUARE-DANCE TUNE
Old King Cole - ENGLISH CHILDREN’S SONG
Old MacDonald Had a Farm - NURSERY SONG
The Old Oaken Bucket - W: SAMUEL WOODWORTH (1817) / M: GEORGE KIALLMARK (1822)
The Old Rugged Cross - W & M: REV. GEORGE BENNARD (1913)
O Little Town of Bethlehem - W: PHILLIPS BROOKS (1868) / M: LEWIS H. REDNER
On a Sunday Afternoon - W: ANDREW B. STERLING / M: HARRY VON TILZER (1902)
Once in Royal David’s City - W: CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER / M: ANON.
One More River - SPIRITUAL
O No, John! - OLD ENGLISH COURTING SONG
On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away - W & M: PAUL DRESSER (1899)
On the Road to Mandalay - W: RUDYARD KIPLING / M: OLEY SPEAKS (1907)
On Top of Old Smoky - AMERICAN BALLAD
Onward, Christian Soldiers - W: REV. SABINE BARING-GOULD / M: ARTHUR S. SULLIVAN (1864)
Oranges and Lemons - ENGLISH NURSERY TUNE
’O Sole Mio! - W: GIOVANNI CAPURRO / M: EDOARDO DI CAPUA (1899)
Over There - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN (1917)
Over the River and Through the Woods - W: LYDIA MARIA CHILD (originally published in 1844 as “Thanksgiving Day,” a 12-stanza poem) M: FRENCH FOLK TUNE
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile - W: “GEORGE ASAF” [George Henry Powell] / M: FELIX POWELL (1915)
Paddle Your Own Canoe - W: HARRY CLIFTON / M: M. HOBSON (ca. 1912?)
Peg o’ My Heart - W: ALFRED BRYAN / M: FRED FISCHER (1913)
Polly-Wolly-Doodle - AMERICAN MINSTREL SONG
Pop Goes the Weasel - W: ANON. (1856?) M: OLD ENGLISH DANCING TUNE (1853?)
Pretty Baby - W: GUS KAHN / M: TONY JACKSON & EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody - W & M: IRVING BERLIN
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet - W: STANLEY MURPHY / M: PERCY WENRICH (1909)
Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You) - W: JUNIE McCREE / M: ALBERT VON TILZER (1910)
Rally ’Round the Flag - CIVIL WAR MARCHING SONG W: JAMES C. FIELDS / M: WILLIAM S. BRADBURY
The Red River Valley - W & M: JAMES J. KERRIGAN (1896)
Red Wing (An Indian Intermezzo) - W: THURLAND CHATTAWAY / M: KERRY MILLS (1907)
Reuben and Rachel - W: HARRY BIRCH / M: WILLIAM GOOCH (1871)
Rise and Shine - SPIRITUAL
Roamin’ in the Gloamin’ - W & M: HARRY LAUDER (1911)
Rock-a-Bye, Baby - W & M: “EFFIE I. CANNING” [Effie I. Crockett] (1884) (original words—“Hush-a-bye, Baby”—published about 1765)
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby (With a Dixie Melody) - W: JOE YOUNG & SAM M. LEWIS / M: JEAN SCHWARTZ
Rock-a My Soul - SPIRITUAL
Rock’d in the Cradle of the Deep - W: EMMA H. WILLARD / M: JOSEPH P. KNIGHT (1840)
Rock of Ages - W: AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADY (1776) / M: THOMAS HASTINGS (1832)
Roll, Jordan, Roll - SPIRITUAL
Romany Life (Song à la Czardas) - W: HARRY B. SMITH / M: VICTOR HERBERT
The Rosary - W: ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS / M: ETHELBERT NEVIN (1898)
The Rose of Tralee - W: F. MORDAUNT SPENCER / M: CHARLES W GLOVER (ca. 1845)
Rose of Washington Square - W: BALLARD MACDONALD / M: JAMES F. HANLEY
Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland) - W: HARRY H. WILLIAMS / M: ART HICKMAN (1917)
’Round Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Row, Row, Row - W: WILLIAM JEROME / M: JIMMIE V. MONACO (1912)
Row, Row, Row Your Boat - FOUR-PART ROUND
Rule, Britannia - W: DAVID MALLET or JAMES THOMSON M: THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE (1740)
The St. Louis Blues - W & M: W. C. HANDY (1914)
Saint Patrick’s Day - W: THOMAS MOORE (ca. 1810) / M: ENGLISH FOLK TUNE
Sally in Our Alley - W & M: HENRY CAREY (1902)
Santa Lucia - W & M: TEODORO COTTRAU (ca. 1850)
Scarborough Fair - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Schnitzelbank - GERMAN CHILDREN’S TRADITIONAL “ACCUMULATION” SONG
School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids) - W: WILL D. COBB / M: GUS EDWARDS (1906)
Shall We Gather at the River? - W & M: REV. ROBERT LOWRY
Shalom Chaverim - EIGHT-PART ROUND FROM ISRAEL
Sung as a round
The Sheik of Araby - W: HARRY B. SMITH & FRANCIS WHEELER M: TED SNYDER (1921)
She Is More to Be Pitied Than Censured - W & M: WILLIAM B. GRAY (1898)
She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain
Shenandoah - AMERICAN RIVER SONG
(1st version)
(2nd version)
Shew! Fly, Don’t Bother Me - W: BILLY REEVES / M: FRANK CAMPBELL (1869)
Shine On, Harvest Moon - W & M: NORA BAYES-NORWORTH & JACK NORWORTH
Silent Night - W: ORIGINAL GERMAN (“Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht!”) BY JOSEPH MOHR (1818) M: FRANZ GRUBER (1832)
Silver Threads among the Gold - W: EBEN E. REXFORD / M: HART P. DANKS (1873)
Sing a Song of Sixpence - NURSERY SONG
Skip to My Lou - DANCE SONG OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Smiles - W: J. WILL CALLAHAN / M: LEE S. ROBERTS (1917)
Smilin’Through - W & M: ARTHUR A. PENN (1919)
So Long, Mary - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN
Somebody Stole My Gal - W & M: LEO WOOD (1918)
Some of These Days - W & M: SHELTON BROOKS (1910)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - SPIRITUAL
Sourwood Mountain - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Standin’ in the Need of Prayer - SPIRITUAL
The Star Spangled Banner - AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM W: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (1814) / M: JOHN STAFFORD SMITH (1777?)
The Streets of New York - W: HENRY BLOSSOM / M: VICTOR HERBERT
Sucking Cider Through a Straw - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Sunbonnet Sue (When I Was a Kid So High) - W: WILL D. COBB / M: GUS EDWARDS (1908)
Sur le Pont d’Avignon - FRENCH CHILDREN’S SONG
Sussex Carol - TRADITIONAL ENGLISH
Swanee - W: IRVING CAESAR / M: GEORGE GERSHWIN (1919)
Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart) - W: RICHARD H. GERARD / M: HARRY W. ARMSTRONG (1903)
Sweet and Low - W: ALFRED LORD TENNYSON (1850) / M: J. BARNBY (1863)
Sweet Betsy from Pike - AMERICAN WAGON SONG
The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Tell Me, Do You Love Me) - W & M: R. M. STULTS (1892)
Sweet Genevieve - W: GEORGE COOPER / M: HENRY TUCKER (1869)
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi - W: BYRON D. STOKES / M: F. DUDLEIGH VERNOR (1912)
Sweethearts - W: ROBERT B. SMITH / M: VICTOR HERBERT
Sweet Rosie O’ Grady - W & M: MAUDE NUGENT (1896)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - SPIRITUAL
Take Me Out to the Ball Game - W: JACK NORWORTH / M: ALBERT VON TILZER (1908)
Taps - W: GEN. DANIEL BUTTERFIELD (1862) M: OLIVER WILLCOX NORTON
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! - W & M: HENRY J. SAYERS (?) (1891)
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes - W: HARRY PEASE & JOHNNY WHITE M: IRA SCHUSTER & ED G. NELSON (1921)
Ten Little Indians - CHILDREN’S COUNTING SONG
Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground - W & M: WALTER KITTREDGE (ca. 1863)
There Is a Tavern in the Town - W & M: WILLIAM H. HILLS (?) (1883)
There’s a Little Wheel a-Turning - SPIRITUAL
There’s a Long, Long Trail - W: STODDARD KING / M: ZO ELLIOTT (1914)
They Didn’t Believe Me - W: HERBERT REYNOLDS / M: JEROME KERN
This Old Hammer - AMERICAN RAILROAD SONG
This Old Man - CHILDREN’S COUNTING SONG
This Train - SPIRITUAL
Three Blind Mice - NURSERY SONG SUNG AS A FOUR-PART ROUND
Throw Him Down, McCloskey - W & M: JOHN W. KELLY (1890)
Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger!) - W: HARRY DECOSTA M: D. J. LA ROCCA (“The Original Dixieland Jazz Band”) (1917)
Till the Clouds Roll By - W: JEROME KERN, P. G. WODEHOUSE & GUY BOLTON M: JEROME KERN
Till We Meet Again - W: RAYMOND B. EGAN / M: RICHARD A. WHITING (1918)
’Tis the Last Rose of Summer - W: THOMAS MOORE (1813) / M: IRISH AIR (ca. 1793)
Tit-Willow - W: W. S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Tom Dooley - AMERICAN BALLAD
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (That’s an Irish Lullaby) - W & M: JAMES ROYCE SHANNON (1913)
Tourelay, Tourelay - IRISH LULLABY
Toyland - W: GLEN MA c DONOUGH / M: VICTOR HERBERT
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - W: BALLARD MACDONALD / M: HARRY CARROLL (1913)
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! - W & M: GEORGE F. ROOT (1865)
Turkey in the Straw (Zip Coon) - AMERICAN TRADITIONAL FIDDLE TUNE
The Twelve Days of Christmas - TRADITIONAL ENGLISH
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - W: JANE TAYLOR (1806) M: TRADITIONAL FRENCH
Under the Bamboo Tree - W & M: BOB COLE & J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON (1902)
Up on the Housetop - CHRISTMAS TRADITIONAL
Vilia - ENGLISH WORDS: ADRIAN ROSS / M: FRANZ LEHÁR (1907)
Vive la Compagnie (Vive l’Amour) - TRADITIONAL DRINKING SONG
Wabash Cannon Ball - AMERICAN RAILROADING SONG
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee - W: L. WOLFE GILBERT / M: LEWIS F. MUIR (1912)
Wait ’Till the Sun Shines, Nellie - W: ANDREW B. STERLING / M: HARRY VON TILZER (1905)
Wal, I Swan (Ebenezer Frye) - W & M: BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT
Waltz Me Around Again, Willie (’Round, ’Round, ’Round) - W: WILL D. COBB / M: REN SHIELDS (1906)
A Wandering Minstrel I - W: W S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
’Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - W & M: HENRY CREAMER & J. TURNER LAYTON (1922)
The Wayfaring Stranger - APPALACHIAN FOLK SONG
We Are Coming, Father Abra’am - W: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT [or JAMES SLOAN GIBBONS?] M: LUTHER ORLANDO EMERSON (1862)
The Wearing of the Green - W: DION BOUCICAULT / M: “an Irish Ballad of 1798”
We Gather Together (Prayer of Thanksgiving)
Were You There? - SPIRITUAL
We Three Kings of Orient Are - W & M: JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, JR. (ca. 1857)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas - TRADITIONAL ENGLISH
What Can We Do with a Drunken Sailor - SEA CHANTEY (17th c.)
What Child Is This? - W: WILLIAM C. DIX / M: “GREENSLEEVES”
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - W: CHAUNCEY OLCOTT & GEORGE GRAFF JR. M: ERNEST R. BALL (1912)
When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home - W & M: JOHN FLETCHER (1859)
When I Was a Lad - W: W. S. GILBERT / M: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again - W: “LOUIS LAMBERT” [Patrick S. Gilmore] (1863) M: “JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE” (?) (Irish street song, ca. 1898)
When My Baby Smiles at Me - W: TED LEWIS & ANDREW B. STERLING / M: BILL MUNRO
When the Saints Go Marching In - SPIRITUAL
When You and I Were Young, Maggie - W: GEORGE W JOHNSON / M: JAMES A. BUTTERFIELD (1866)
When You Were Sweet Sixteen - W & M: JAMES THORNTON (1898)
When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Red Rose) - W: JACK MAHONEY / M: PERCY WENRICH (1914)
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? - ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Where the River Shannon Flows - W & M: JAMES I. RUSSELL (1905)
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - W: NAHUM TATE (late 17th c.) / M: TRADITIONAL
While Strolling in the Park One Day (The Fountain in the Park) - W & M: ED HALEY (1884)
Whispering - W & M: JOHN SCHONBERGER, RICHARD COBURN & VINCENT ROSE (1920)
White Coral Bells - TWO-PART ROUND FROM ENGLAND
Whoopee, Ti Yi Yo (Git Along, Little Dogies) - AMERICAN COWBOY SONG
Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy’s Chowder? - W & M: GEORGE L. GEIFER (1898)
Woodman, Spare That Tree - W: GEORGE P. MORRIS / M: HENRY RUSSELL (1837)
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise - W: EUGENE LOCKHART / M: ERNEST SEITZ (1919)
The Yama-Yama Man - W: “O. A. HAUERBACH” [Otto Harbach] M: KARL HOSCHNA
Yankee Doodle - MARCHING SONG OF COLONIAL AMERICA
Yankee Doodle Boy - W & M: GEORGE M. COHAN
The Yellow Rose of Texas - AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay! - W: WILL D. COBB / M: JOHN H. FLYNN
You’d Be Surprised - W & M: IRVING BERLIN (1919)
You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) - W: JOE McCARTHY / M: JAMES V. MONACO (1913)
You’re a Grand Old Flag - W&M: GEORGE M. COHAN
You’re in the Army Now - SONG OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY BUGLE CORPS W: TELL TAYLOR & OLE OLSEN (1917) M: TRADITIONAL
Your Eyes Have Told Me So - W: GUS KAHN & EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE / M: WALTER BLAUFUSS (1919)
You Said It! - W: BERT KALMAR & EDDIE COX / M: HENRY W SANTLEY (1919)
You Tell Me Your Dream (I’ll Tell You Mine) - W & M: GUS KAHN & CHARLES N. DANIELS (1908)
Zum Gali Gali - ISRAELI WORK SONG
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