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HERE YOU WILL FIND more than 900 old-time or oldtimey song lyrics. These songs or calls* mostly originate from the 19th and early 20th century. Many of them are "folk processed" versions of folk or popular songs from a variety of sources. These songs are commonly associated with early country recording artists such as Charlie Poole and the Carter Family. The song subjects of course include the usual romantic and life themes we are all familiar with, but there is a strong bias towards Christian, work and life themes as they would have been experienced in mainly rural settings of an earlier and some say better time in out history.
Notes:
*By calls I mean short verse segments that are used in conjunction with probably what were dance tunes, for example see "Little Rabbit Where's Your Mammy".
The songs in this section are a collection of transcriptions by various individuals. These should not be considered as definitive versions representative of any particular performance or artist and in some cases more than one version of the son is provided. These lyrics are provided for study and scholarship purposes. Many of these songs are in the public domain or traditional categories, however this cannot be guaranteed and should you wish to use them as a basis of a performance or any non personal study purpose you are advised to contact the copyright holders.
Should you need a print-out of the song, PDF and RTF versions (without banners or adverts) are available from the links at the bottom of each song page.
This is a list of all the old-time song lyrics available in this section, click on A,B, etc in to top nav-bar to go to the song pages or on "old-time-songs home" to return to this page.. | |
Acres Of Clams Adieu To Cold Weather After The Ball Aint Gonna Do It No More Aint Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight Aint Gonna Rain No More Aint Nobodys Business Aint No Ash Will Burn Aint No Bugs On Me Aint No Tellin Aint No Use In Me Working So Hard Aint She Sweet Aint That Skippin And Flyin Aint That Trouble In Mind Alabama Bound Alabama Gals All Go Hungry Hash House All Go Hungry Hash House Ernest Stoneman All Night Long Amber Tresses Anchored In Love Angelina Baker Annabelle Arabella Are You Washed In The Blood Are You Washed In The Blood Of The Lamb Arizona Boys And Girls Arkansas Boys Arkansas Sheik Arkansas Traveler Arkansas Traveler Dialogue Atlanta Blues At A Georgia Camp Meeting Aunt Dinah Drunk Aunt Rhody Awake Awake A Days Happiness A Hundred Miles A Monday Was My Courtin Day A Scoldin Wife A Sup Of Good Whiskey Baby O Baby Your Time Aint Long Back Home Again In Indiana Back To Jericho Back Up And Push Bake That Chicken Pie Baltimore Fire Banjo Picking Girl Banjo Pickin Girl Banjo Sam Banks Of Sacramento Barbry Ellen Barlow Knife Beans Bacon And Gravy Bear Creek Bear Went Over The Mountain Beautiful Beautiful Brown Eyes Beautiful Isle Oer The Sea Been All Around This World Been To The East Been To The West Beer Barrel Polka Bell Cow Benny Et A Woodchuck Betty Anne Betty Baker Beware Oh Take Caren Bible In The Cabin By The Sea Big Ball In Boston Big Ball In Cowtown Big Ball In Memphis Big Bend Gal Big Eyed Rabbit Bile Them Cabbage Down Billy Boy Billy Boy1 Billy Patterson Bill Bailey Wont You Please Come Home Bill Mason Birdie Birdies Lament Biscuits Blackberry Blossom Black Eyed Susie Black Eyed Suzie From Skillet Lickers Black Jack Davey Black Rat Swing Black Them Boots Blowin Down This Road Blow Away The Morning Dew Blue Eyed Boston Boy Blue Eyed Girl Blue Goose Blue Moon Of Kentucky Blue Ridge Cabin Home Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Blue Tailed Fly Boating Down The Mongol Boating Up Sandy Boatman Dance Bobby Shaftoe Us Version Boll Weevil Bonapartes Retreat Bonaparte Crossing The Rocky Mountains Bonnie Blue Eyes Bonnie Blue Flag Booth Shot Lincoln Boots And Saddle Bound To Ride Bowling Green Bravest Cowboy Breaking Up Christmas Breakin Up Christmas Brer Rabbit Broken Down Tramp Browns Ferry Blues Buckeye Jim Buck Creek Girl Budded Rose Buffalo Gals Buffalo Gals Bluegrass Bugle Call Rag Building On That Rock Bully Of The Town Butchers Boy Cacklin Hen Callahan Campbells Are Coming Cant Put The Bridle On That Mule Captain Jinks Careless Love Carve That Possum Casey Jones Cats Got The Measleswalter Smith Cat Came Back The Cave Love Has Gained The Day Charleston Town Charles Guiteau Charley Is A Good Ol Man Charlies Sweet Charlie Brooks And Nellie Adair Charlotte Town Is Burning Down Charming Betsy Chased Old Satan Through The Door Chicken Dont Roost Too High Chicken In The Barnyard Chicken In The Bread Tray Chicken Reel Chilly Winds Chittlin Cooking Time In Cheatham County Christine Leroy Christmas Time Is Coming Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over Church In The Wildwood Cider Cindy Clear The Kitchen Clare Cluck Old Hen Coal Miners Blues Coffee Grows On White Oak Trees Cold Rain And Snow Come All Ye Tender Hearted Come Home Come On Son Curly Fox Coo Coo Cornbread Lasses Sassafras Tea Cornstalk Fiddle And A Shoestring Bow Corrina Corrine, Corrina Cotton Eyed Joe Country Blues Country Ham And Red Gravy Cowboy Jack Crawdadn Crawdad Song Cripple Creek Crow Black Chicken Crow Fish Man Cuckoo Bird Cuckoo The Cumberland Gap Curly Headed Woman Dance All Night Dance Boatman Dance Daniel Prayed Danville Girl Dark And Stormy Weather Dark Hollow Darling Alalee Darling Cory Darling Little Joe Darling Nellie Gray Darling Nellie Grey Darling Nelly Gray Davy Davy Dead Head And Suckers Dear Someone Death Is Only A Dream Deep Elem Blues Devilish Mary Devils Dream The De Boatman Dance Diamond Joe Didnt He Ramble Dinah Kenny Hall Dixie Doggets Gap Lunsford Doney Dont Get Trouble In Your Mind Dont Let Your Deal Go Down Dont You Rock Me Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan Down Among The Budded Roses Down In Alabam Down In Jay Bird Town Down In The Coal Mine Down In The River To Pray Down In The Willow Garden Down South Blues Down The Road Down Yonder Do Round My Lindy Do You Call That Religion Dream Of A Miners Child Drifting Too Far From The Shore Drinking From The Fountain Drunkards Dream Drunkards Hell Drunken Hiccups 06 Tommy Ducks On The Millpond Duncan And Brady Dusty Miller East Virginia Eight More Miles To Louisville Elder Greens In Town Everybody Will Be Happy Over There Eyes Of Texas Faded Flowers Faded Love Fair And Tender Ladies Fall On My Knees Farewell To Whisky Fare You Well My Susan Farther Along Fathers Got A Home Fellow That Looked Like Me Few Days Few More Years Fine Times At Our House Finger Ring Fire On The Mountain Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss Footprints In The Snow Forsaken Love Fortune Forty Four Gun Forty Years Ago Four Cent Cotton Four In The Middle Frankie And Johnny Free A Little Bird Free Little Bird Freight Train Froggie Went A Courtin Frog In The Millpond Funny When You Feel That Way Garry Owen Gate To Go Through Gathering Flowers From The Hillside Gathering Up The Shells From The Seashore Geezer And The Guiser Gentle Maiden The Georgia Buck Georgia Railroad Gettin Upstairs Gilderoy Ginseng Blues Girl From Tennessee Girl In The Blue Velvet Band Girl I Left Behind Me Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee Girl Of Constant Sorrow Girl On The Greenbriar Shore Git Along Cindy Give Him One More As He Goes Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents Give Me That Old Time Religion Give Me The Roses Give Me Your Love And Ill Give You Mine Glory Land Way Glory To The Lamb Gods Gonna Ease My Troubling Mind God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign Going Across The Mountain Going Across The Sea Going Down The River Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Going Round This World Going To Boston Going To Georgia Goin Down To Town Golden Slippers Oh The Golden Vanity Goober Peas Goodbye Booze Goodbye Liza Jane Goodbye Mary Dear Goodbye Miss Liza Jane Gospel Plow Gospel Ship Got A Little Home To Go To Got A Little Home To Go To Tom Got No Sugar Baby Now Governor Al Smith Go Home With The Girls In The Morning Go In And Out The Window Go To Sleep John Dinny Granny Will Your Dog Bite Grave On The Green Hillside Great Big Taters In Sandy Land Great Titanic Greenback Dollar Fiddle Tune Greenback Dollar Song Green Corn Green Grow The Lilacs Green Grow The Rushes O Green Pastures Green Willis Grey Cat On A Tennessee Farm Ground Hog Gum Tree Canoe Hallelujah Side Handsome Molly Hand In Hand With Jesus Hangman, Hangman, Slack The Rope Happy Land Happy Or Lonesome Hard Times Hard Times Come Again No More Haste To The Wedding Have Thine Own Way Hawks Got A Chicken Heart That Was Broken For Me Hear Jerusalem Moan Heavenly Light Is Shining On Me Hello Stranger Hesitation Blues He Is Coming To Us Dead He Rambled He Will Set Your Fields On Fire Hills Of Roane County Hog Eye Hog Eye Man Fiddle Hog Eye Man Sailor Shanty Hold Fast To The Right Hold On To The Sleigh Hold To Gods Unchanging Hand Home Sweet Home Honey Babe Blues Honey In The Rock Hook And Line Hop Along Peter Hop High Ladies Horney Ewe Horse Named Rover Hot Corn Cold Corn Hound Dog Song House Carpenter House Of David Blues Howling At The Moon How Beautiful Heaven Must Be How Can I Miss You, When You Won't Go Away How Long How Many Biscuits Can You Eat Hungry Hash House Husband And Wife Were Angry One Night Ida Red Id Druther Be A Black Man Than A Poor White Man Id Rather Be An Old Time Christian If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again If One Wont Another One Will Ill Be All Smiles Tonight Ill Be No Stranger There Ill Be Rested Ill Dance A Jig And Ill Dance No More Ill Never Get Drunk Anymore Ill Remember You Love In My Prayers Ill Rise When The Rooster Crows Im Alabama Bound Im A Getting Ready To Go Im A Rambler Im A Gambler Im Going Back To Jericho Im Going To The West Im Goin Back To Jericho Im Goin Down The Road Feelin Bad Im Gonna Eat At The Welcome Table Im Nine Hundred Miles From My Home Im Sittin On Top Of The World Im The Child To Fight Im The Man That Rode The Mule Round The World Im Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes Im Troubled Im Walking On The Levee In The Baggage Coach Ahead In The Pines In The Shadow Of The Pines Irish Girl Its Movin Day Ive Been All Around This World I Am A Pilgrim I Asked That Pretty Girl To Be My Wife I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart I Cannot Call Her Mother I Dont Love Nobody I Dont Want Your Ramblin Letters I Found You Among The Roses I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham I Got A Bulldog Sweet Brothers I Got A Gal I Got A Gal In Baltimore I Have A Bonnet Dressed In Blue I Have Found The Way I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer I Hung My Jawbone I Know An Old Canaller I Know Youre Married I Left My German Home I Loved You Better Than You Knew I Love Little Willie I Never Will Marry I Once Loved A Sailor I Want My Black Baby Back I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home I Wouldnt Mind Dying I'm An Old Cow Hand Jackfish Jacksons Victory Jack O Diamonds Jacobs Vision Jawbone Jaybird1 Jaybird2 Jaybird3 Jaybird Died Of The Whooping Cough Jealous Lover Jealous Mary Jenny Dang The Weaver Jenny Jenkins Jesus Savior Pilot Me Jimmie Brown The Newsboy Jimmy Johnson Bring The Jug Around The Hill Jimmy Sutton Jim Along Josey Jim Crow Jinny Go Round An Round Johnny Booker Johnny Come Down To Hilo Johnny Fill Up The Bowl Johnny Fool Johnny Get Your Gunn Johnsons Old Grey Mule Johnson Boys Johnson Boyst Johnson Gals John Browns Dream John Brown's Dream John Hardy John Henry John The Revelator Jones County Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel June Apple Just Another Broken Heart Just A Closer Walk With Thee Just Keep Waiting Till The Good Time Comes Just Over In The Glory Land |
Kansas Boys Katie Cline Katie Dear Katy Cline Keel Row Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy Keep On Dealin Keep On The Firing Line Keep On The Sunny Side Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Kemo Kimo Kentucky Blues Kickin Mule Kingdom Coming Kitty Alone Kitty And The Baby Kneel At The Cross Knoxville Girl Lasses Canee Last Mile Of The Way Late Last Night Lay Of The Old Settler Lazy John Leaning On The Everlasting Arms Leather Breeches Leaving Home Legend Of The Rebel Soldier Letter Edged In Black Let Me Fall Let The Church Roll On Lifes Railway To Heaven Lil Liza Jane Listen To The Mockingbird Little Beggarman Little Bennie Little Bessie Little Betty Ann Little Betty Ann2 Little Birdie Little Black Train Little Glass Of Wine Little Home To Go To Little Joe The Wrangler Little Log Cabin In The Lane Little Maggie Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane Little Rabbit Wheres Your Mammy Little Red Caboose Behind The Train Little Rosewood Casket Little Sadie Little Satchel Little Soldier Little Stream Of Whiskey Little Whitewashed Chimney Little Willie Liza Jane Lonesome Valley Lone Pilgrim Longing For Old Virginia Lookit Yonder Look Away From The Cross Look Before You Leap Lord Im Coming Home Lorena Lost Indian Lost John Lovers Farewell Lovers Quarrel Lovers Return Loving Hannah Lucy Long Lynchburg Town Mabel Madeleine Maggie Walker Maidens Prayer Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor Man Of Constant Sorrow Maple Leaf Rag Maple On The Hill Mary Of The Wild Moor Mckinley White House Blues Meeting In The Air Meet Me By The Moonlight Methodist Pie Midnight Special Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia Miller Boyd Milwaukee Blues Mississippi Sawyer Missouri Waltz Miss Lucy Long Miss The Mississippi Molly And Tenbrooks Molly Baker Molly Put The Kettle On Monkey On A String Moonshiner Motherless Children Mothers Last Farewell Kiss Mountaineers Love Song My Gypsy Girl My Homes Across The Blue Ridge Mountains My Last Ol Dollar My Little Dony My Long Tail Blue My Native Home My Old Cottage Home My Old Kentucky Home My Wife Died On A Saturday Night My Wife Went Away And Left Me Nancy Rowland Nancy Till Nearer My God To Thee Nelly Bly Never Seen The Like Since Gettin’ Upstairs New River Train Nine Hundred Mileswoody Nine Pound Hammer Nobodys Business Nobodys Darling On Earth North Country No More The Moon Shines On Lorena Oh Death Oh My Little Darling Oh Susanna Oh Them Golden Slippers Oh Those Tombs Old Account Settled Old And Only In The Way Old Aunt Betsy Old Aunt Peggy Wont You Set Em Up Again Old Black Joe Old Bog Hole Old Corn Liquor Old Dan Tucker Old Folks At Home Old Grey Cat On The Tennessee Farm Old Grey Goose Old Grey Mule Old Hat The Old Jimmy Sutton Old Joe Clark Old Liza Jane Old Man At The Mill Old Molly Hare Old Paint Old Plank Road Old Reuben Old Ruby Old Rugged Cross Old Sefus Brown Old Soldier Old Sow Took The Measles1 Old Sow Took The Measles2 Old Time Religion Old Zip Coon Ol Ridin Hoss Omie Wise One Little Word One Moonlight Night On A Cold Winters Night On A Hill Lone And Gray On My Way To Canaans Land On The Banks Of Old Tennessee On The Road To California On The Rock Where Moses Stood On The Wilderness Trail On Top Of Old Smoky Orange Blossom Specia Orphan Girl Over The Garden Wall Over The Hills To The Poorhouse Over The River To Feed My Sheep Over The Road Im Bound To Go Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Palms Of Victory Parsley Girls Pass Around The Bottle Pass Me Not Paul And Silas Peach Picking Time In Georgia Peach Pickin Time In Georgia Peg And Awl Pictures From The Far Side Of Life Picture On The Wall Pig In A Pen Please Mommy Please Police Policeman Polly Put The Kettle On Polly Wolly Doodle Poor Ellen Smith Poor Little Orphaned Boy Poor Miss Liza Jane Poor Old Napper Poor Orphan Child Pop Goes The Weasel Possum Pie Possum Up A Gum Stump Possum Up A Simmons Tree Possum’s Tail Is Bare Preacher Got Drunk And Throwed His Bible Down Prettiest Little Girl In The County Prettiest Little Girl In The County O Pretty Little Miss Pretty Little Pink Pretty Little Widow Pretty Polly Pretty Saro Pull For The Shore Put My Little Shoes Away Quit Ticklin Me Rabbit In A Log Rabbit In A Pea Patch Rabbit In The Log Ragged But Right Ragtime Chicken Joe Railroad Runs Through Georgia Rain And Snow Raleigh And Spencer Rambling Boy Ramblin Blues Red Apple Juice Red Buck Red Rocking Chair Red Rockin Chair Red Wing Reubens Train Richmond Blues Riddle Song Ride Old Buck To Water Rileys Hen House Door Riley The Furniture Man Rockingham Cindy Rocking My Sugar Lump Rocky Island Rocky Road Cindy Rock About My Saro Jane Rock The Cradle Joe Rock The Cradle Lucy Roll Her On The Ground Roll In My Sweet Babys Arms Roll On Buddy Roll On The Ground Rose Connolly Rosin The Bow Round And Round Hitlers Grave Roustabout Roving Gambler Roving Sailor Rufus Rastus Run Mountain Rye Straw Rye Whiskey Saddle Up The Grey Sad And Lonesome Day Sailor Boys Farewell Sailor On The Deep Blue Sea Sail Away Ladies Sally Ann Sally Goodin Sally In The Garden Sals Got A Meatskin Salty Dog Sal Got A Meatskin Sal Let Me Chaw Your Rosin Some Sal Went Down To Cider Mill Sammie Where You Been So Long Sandy Boys Sandy Lan Sandy River Belle Saro Saro Jane Say Darling Say Say Darlin Say Seeing Nelly Home Settin In A Chimney Jamb Shady Grove Shake Hands With Mother Again Shear Em Sheep Shell Corn Shell Be Coming Round The Mountain Sherman Valley Shootin Creek Shoo Fly Shortening Bread Shortenin Bread Short Life Of Trouble Shouting On The Hills Of Glory Shout Lula Shout Mourner Shut Up In The Mines Of Coal Creek Silly Bill Silver Bell Silver Dagger Single Girl Sing Song Kitty Sitting On Top Of The World Six Months Aint Long Skip To My Lou Sleepy Eyed John Snow Deer Soldiers Joy Sourwood Mountain Spike Drivers Blues Stackolee Stack Em Up In Piles Standing In The Need Of Prayer Stay All Night Steamboat Bill Stepstone Stick It In The Middle Storms Are On The Ocean Streets Of Laredo St James Infirmary Sugarfoot Rag Hank Garland Sugar Babe Sugar Hill Sugar In The Gourd Sunny Side Of Life Susananna Gal Susannah Gal Swannanoa Tunnel Sweeping Through The Gates Sweet Bunch Of Daisies Sweet Child Sweet Evelina Sweet Fern Sweet Heaven In My View Sweet Sixteen Sweet Sunny South Sweet Thing Swing Low Sweet Chariot Take A Drink On Me Take Me Home Take This Hammer Tanners Boarding House Tell Her To Come Back Home Tell Old Bill Tennessee Waltz Therell Be No Distinction There Therell Come A Time Someday Theres More Pretty Girls Theres No Hiding Place Theres No One Like Mother To Me There Aint No Bugs On Me There Is A Fountain They Call Her Mother They Dont Roost Too High For Me They Gotta Quit Kickin My Dog Around The Bravest Cowboy From Brad Leftwich The Girl I Loved In Sunny Tennessee The Highwayman The Letter That Never Came The Little Black Train Is Coming The L & N Dont Stop Here Anymore The Mothers Plea For Her Son The Only Girl I Ever Lovedt This Morning This Train This World Is Not My Home Thompsons Old Grey Mule Those Gamblers Blues Tombigbee Waltz Tom Dooley Took My Girl A Walking Train 45 Train Forty Five Train On The Island Train That Carried My Girl From Town Trouble In Mind Tumblin Gap Turkey In The Straw Two Coats Two Little Boys Two More Years Two Sweethearts Uncle Bud Uncle Joe Uncle Ned Unclouded Day Unquiet Grave Wabash Blues Wabash Cannonball Wagoners Lad Wagon Yard Waiting For A Train Wait For The Wagon Walking In My Sleep Walking In The Kings Highway Walk Along John Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John Walk Jawbone Wandering Boydoc Watson Waterbound Watermelon Hanging On The Vine Watermelon On The Vine Water Bound Water Boy Waves On The Sea Wayfaring Stranger Wayward Boy Way Down The Old Plank Road Way Up On Clinch Mountain Weathered Old Caboose Behind The Train Weevily Wheat Well All Go Down To Rowsers Were You There When They Crucified My Lord Western Country West Virginia Gals We Shall Rise We’ll Die In The Pig Pen Fighting Whatcha Gonna Do When The Licker Runs Out Whatll We Do With The Baby O What Is Home Without Babies What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul When He Reached Down His Hand For Me When Im Far Away When I Die When I Had But Fifty Cents When I Lay My Burden Down When Silver Threads Are Gold Again When Sorrows Encompass Me Round When They Ring The Golden Bells 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 You And I Were Young Maggie When You Go A Courtin Where Shall I Be Where The Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies Where The Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight Where Well Never Grow Old Whiskey Before Breakfast Whispering Hope White House Blues Whoa Back Buck Whoa Haw Whoa Mule Whoop Em Up Cindy Whos Going Down To Town Whos Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet Whos That Knocking On My Window Who Broke The Lock Who Will Sing For Me Why Should I Be Lonely Wildwood Flower Wild And Reckless Hobo Wild Bill Jones Wild Boar In The Woods Willie Moore Will My Mother Know Me There Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown Will The Circle Be Unbroken Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven Will You Miss Me Wind And Rain Working On A Building Worried Man Blues Wouldnt Give Me Sugar In My Coffee Wreck Of The Old 97 Write A Letter To My Mother Yankee Doodle Yodeling Mule Yonder Comes My Love Young Boy Left His Home One Day Youre A Flower In The Wildwood Your Mother Still Prays For You Youve Got To Righten That Wrong Youve Got To Stop Drinking Shine You Aint Talkin To Me You Are My Flower You Shall Be Free |