Songs
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Here you can find the lyrics to nearly 400 old traditional songs, bluegrass songs, old-time songs, folk songs... most are in the public-domain but a few may not be. Most songs have a free Song Clip which you can hear by clicking the black music player on the right-hand side of each page. Listen to the free recordings to hear how the song goes. We hope you find it a useful resource!
- Adieu to Cold Weather
- Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
- Alabama Bound
- All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Tresses
- Anchored in Love
- Angel Band
- Are You Tired of Me My Darling
- Are You Washed in the Blood
- Banjo Picking Girl
- Banks of the Ohio
- Barb'ry Ellen
- Beautiful Isle O'er the Sea
- Beautiful Life
- Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes
- Bible in the Cabin by the Sea
- Big Ball in Boston
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Bile Them Cabbage Down
- Black Eyed Susie
- Black Jack Davey
- Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
- Blue-Eyed Boston Boy
- Boll Weevil
- Bonnie Blue Eyes
- Bound to Ride
- Bowling Green
- Bravest Cowboy
- Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy
- Bring Back to Me My Wandering Boy
- Broken Down Tramp
- Brown's Ferry Blues
- Buffalo Gals
- Building On That Rock
- Bury Me Beneath the Willow
- Butcher's Boy
- Careless Love
- Charles Guiteau
- Charlie Brooks and Nellie Adair
- Christine Leroy
- Church in the Wildwood
- Cindy
- Cluck Old Hen
- Coal Miner's Blues
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Come All Ye Tender-Hearted
- Come Home
- Corrina
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Country Blues
- Cowboy Jack
- Crawdad Song
- Cuckoo Bird
- Cumberland Gap
- Daniel Prayed
- Dark and Stormy Weather
- Darling Alalee
- Darling Cory
- Darling Little Joe
- Darling Nelly Gray
- Death is Only a Dream
- Deep Elem Blues
- Diamond Joe
- Distant Land to Roam
- Dixie Darling
- Do You Call That Religion
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
- Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky
- Down Among the Budded Roses
- Down in the Valley
- Down in the Willow Garden
- Down the Road
- Dream of a Miner's Child
- Drifting Too Far from the Shore
- Drinking From the Fountain
- Drunkard's Dream
- Drunkard's Hell
- Duncan and Brady
- East Virginia
- Engine One-Forty-Three
- Everybody Will Be Happy Over There
- Faded Coat of Blue
- Faded Flowers
- Fair and Tender Ladies
- Farther Along
- Few More Years
- Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
- Foggy Mountain Top
- Footprints in the Snow
- Forsaken Love
- Forty Years Ago
- Frankie and Johnny
- Funny When You Feel That Way
- Gathering Flowers from the Hillside
- Gathering Up the Shells from the Seashore
- Girl I Left Behind
- Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee
- Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
- Girl on the Greenbriar Shore
- Give Him One More as He Goes
- Give Me the Roses
- Give Me Your Love and I'll Give You Mine
- Glory to the Lamb
- Glory-Land Way
- God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
- God's Gonna Ease My Troublin' Mind
- Goin' Across the Mountain
- Going Across the Sea
- Going to Georgia
- Gold Watch and Chain
- Golden Vanity
- Gospel Plow
- Gospel Ship
- Grandfather's Clock
- Grave on the Green Hillside
- Green Grow the Lilacs
- Green Pastures
- Ground Hog
- Hallelujah Side
- Hand in Hand With Jesus
- Handsome Molly
- Happy or Lonesome
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Have Thine Own Way
- He is Coming to Us Dead
- He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
- Hear Jerusalem Moan
- Heart that was Broken for Me
- Heavenly Light is Shining On Me
- Hello Central, Give Me Heaven
- Hello Stranger
- Hesitation Blues
- Hills of Roane County
- Hold Fast to the Right
- Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
- Honey Babe Blues
- Honey in the Rock
- Hot Corn, Cold Corn
- How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
- I Am a Pilgrim
- I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
- I Found You Among the Roses
- I Have Found the Way
- I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer
- I Loved You Better Than You Knew
- I Never Will Marry
- I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
- I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home
- I Wouldn't Mind Dying
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
- If One Won't Another One Will
- I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
- I'll Be No Stranger There
- I'll Be Rested
- I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers
- I'm Going Back to Jericho
- I'm Going to the West
- I'm Gonna Eat at the Welcome Table
- I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
- I'm Troubled
- In the Baggage Coach Ahead
- In the Pines
- In the Shadow of the Pines
- I've Been All Around This World
- Jacob's Vision
- Jealous Lover
- Jesse James
- Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me
- Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
- John Hardy
- John Henry
- Johnson Boys
- Just a Closer Walk with Thee
- Just Another Broken Heart
- Just Over in the Glory Land
- Katie Cline
- Katie Dear
- Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
- Keep on the Firing Line
- Keep on the Sunny Side
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
- Kneel at the Cross
- Knoxville Girl
- Last Mile of the Way
- Late Last Night
- Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
- Let the Church Roll On
- Letter Edged in Black
- Life's Railway to Heaven
- Little Bennie
- Little Bessie
- Little Birdie
- Little Black Train
- Little Log Cabin in the Lane
- Little Maggie
- Little Rosewood Casket
- Little Sadie
- Little White Church
- Little Whitewashed Chimney
- Little Willie
- Lone Pilgrim
- Lonesome Road Blues
- Lonesome Valley
- Long Journey Home
- Longing for Old Virginia
- Look Away from the Cross
- Lord I'm Coming Home
- Lorena
- Lost John
- Lover's Farewell
- Lover's Quarrel
- Lover's Return
- Lulu Walls
- Mama Don't Allow
- Man of Constant Sorrow
- Maple on the Hill
- Mary of the Wild Moor
- May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister?
- Meet Me by the Moonlight
- Meeting in the Air
- Methodist Pie
- Mid the Green Fields of Virginia
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep
- Midnight Special
- Model Church
- Molly and Tenbrooks
- Moonshiner
- More Pretty Girls Than One
- Motherless Children
- My Clinch Mountain Home
- My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
- My Native Home
- My Old Cottage Home
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Nearer My God to Thee
- New River Train
- Nine Hundred Miles
- Nine Pound Hammer
- No More the Moon Shines on Lorena
- No Telephone in Heaven
- Nobody's Darling on Earth
- Oh Death
- Oh Susanna
- Oh Those Tombs
- Oh, Them Golden Slippers
- Old Account Settled
- Old Black Joe
- Old Dan Tucker
- Old Folks at Home
- Old Joe Clark
- Old Man at the Mill
- Old Rugged Cross
- Old Time Religion
- Omie Wise
- On a Hill Lone and Gray
- On My Way to Canaan's Land
- On the Banks of Old Tennessee
- On the Rock Where Moses Stood
- On Top of Old Smoky
- One Little Word
- Orphan Girl
- Over the Garden Wall
- Over the Hills to the Poorhouse
- Palms of Victory
- Pass Me Not
- Paul and Silas
- Peg and Awl
- Picture on the Wall
- Pictures from the Far Side of Life
- Pig in a Pen
- Please Mommy Please
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Poor Little Orphaned Boy
- Poor Miss Liza Jane
- Poor Orphan Child
- Precious Memories
- Pretty Little Miss
- Pretty Polly
- Pretty Saro
- Put My Little Shoes Away
- Rabbit in the Log
- Rain and Snow
- Raleigh and Spencer
- Rambling Boy
- Red Rocking Chair
- Reuben's Train
- Richmond Blues
- Riddle Song
- Rocky Island
- Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
- Roll on Buddy
- Roving Gambler
- Run Mountain
- Rye Whiskey
- Sad and Lonesome Day
- Sail Away Ladies
- Sailor Boy's Farewell
- Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea
- Sal Got a Meatskin
- Sally Ann
- Sally Goodin
- Salty Dog
- Saro Jane
- Seeing Nelly Home
- Shady Grove
- Shake Hands With Mother Again
- She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain
- Short Life of Trouble
- Shortenin' Bread
- Shoutin' on the Hills of Glory
- Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek
- Single Girl
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Six Months Ain't Long
- Sourwood Mountain
- Standing in the Need of Prayer
- Stepstone
- Storms are on the Ocean
- Streets of Laredo
- Sunny Side of Life
- Sweeping Through the Gates
- Sweet Fern
- Sweet Heaven in My View
- Sweet Sunny South
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Take Me Home
- Take this Hammer
- There'll Be No Distinction There
- There's No Hiding Place
- There's No One Like Mother to Me
- They Call Her Mother
- This Train
- This World Is Not My Home
- Tom Dooley
- Train 45
- Train That Carried My Girl from Town
- Two Coats
- Two Little Boys
- Two More Years
- Two Sweethearts
- Uncle Joe
- Uncle Ned
- Unclouded Day
- Unquiet Grave
- Wabash Cannonball
- Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John
- Walking in the King's Highway
- Water Bound
- Watermelon on the Vine
- Waves on the Sea
- Way Down the Old Plank Road
- Wayfaring Stranger
- We Shall Rise
- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
- What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul
- When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
- When I Lay My Burden Down
- When Silver Threads are Gold Again
- When the Bees Are in the Hive
- When the Roll Is Called up Yonder
- When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
- When the Roses Come Again
- When They Ring the Golden Bells
- When You and I Were Young, Maggie
- Where Shall I Be?
- Where the Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way
- Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
- Where We'll Never Grow Old
- Whispering Hope
- White House Blues
- Who Will Sing for Me
- Who's Going Down to Town
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
- Who's That Knocking on My Window
- Wild and Reckless Hobo
- Wild Bill Jones
- Wildwood Flower
- Will My Mother Know Me There
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven
- Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
- Will You Miss Me
- Willie Moore
- Wind and Rain
- Working on a Building
- Worried Man Blues
- Wreck of the Old 97
- You Are My Flower
- Your Mother Still Prays For You
- You're a Flower in the Wildwood
- You've Got to Righten That Wrong
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