| Woody Guthrie Archives
SONG LYRICS,
SONGS-1
Song texts (lyrics) on individual sheets of paper.
Total of 1327 songs, housed in 3 boxes.
Date range: c. 1930s - 1950s.
Scope and Content:
Individual song texts, typed or written down by Woody Guthrie, or composed by Woody Guthrie but transcribed by others. Some transcribed melodies by others have been retained alongside their respective lyrics, or text. Publisher's musical song sheet mockups have been retained here if no other copy is known to exist in the Archives. Authorship includes original songs by others or of unknown origin. The songs date from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s. A set of song lists and song introductions by Woody Guthrie are also found separately at the end of the songs. A song may have been assigned up to three Genre headings, although more may apply.
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the song texts in Songs-1 carry Copyright restrictions; however, songs that are not copyrighted must undergo a copyrighting process before they may be removed from the Archives (in photocopied form) by researchers.
Arrangement Note:
Song texts are arranged alphabetically according to Woody Guthrie's spelling. Where different titles exist for the same song, one title has been chosen, and all copies are filed together. For example, "Reno Blues" is filed under "Philadelphia Lawyer," the title being only a variation; the song texts themselves are identical.
Similarly, two different song texts may have the same title. A "search" in Archives in-house Songs-1 Database will help clarify the number of versions of any given song. The principal title in the database corresponds to the Woody Guthrie spelling under which the item is filed.
Please Note: Two exceptions to alphabetical arrangement exist:
"Peekskill Songs" consists of a grouping of 21 song texts, penned by Guthrie, on the subject of Peekskill. These songs were originally bound together, but later disassembled. The songs originally in this "songbook" and with "Peekskill" within their title remain together. They are filed together, alphabetically under "Peekskill."
"Talkin'" and "Talking" song text titles are interfiled, with or without a "g" on the end.
Please Note:
Songs listed in Songs-1 may or may not be listed in the other two databases (Songs-2 and Songs-3) While many of the song titles have been duplicated in more than one database, some titles are unique to one database. Therefore, when searching for a song, all three sections should be consulted.
CONTAINER
LIST:
BOX
1
Folder
1 - A
"A3 Daddy"
"Abie gal
& arlo davy"
"Ain't
got no home in this world anymore"
"Ain't
satisfied"
"Ain't
that a pity?"
"Ain'ta
gonna do"
"Aint'a
gonna grieve"
"Airline
to heaven"
"Airplane"
"All good
democrats"
"All in
down & out blues"
"All the
time"
"All work
together" 1
"All you
fascists bound to lose"
"All you
fonies"
"Alligator
farm"
"Angel's
blues"
"Another
man done gone"
"Antyfascist
steve"
"Appledy
joose"
"Arizona
desert land"
"Arlo tutty"
"Around
new york"
"Ashes
to ashes, dust to dust"
"Ask &
see"
"At my
window sad and lonely"
"Atom dance"
"Australyo"
Folder
2 - Ba-Be:
"Baby daddy
mommy"
"Baby joady"
"Bad reputation"
"Baking
for wallace"
"Ballad
of colin kelly"
"Ballad
of teheran"
"Ballad
of the big grand coulee dam"
"Ballad
of the red socks"
"Ballad
of the true condition of this old world"
"Ballad
of wild bill hickock, the"
"Bananny
wagon"
"Bandy
the girls"
"Batty
bat"
"Be kind
to this boy on the road"
"Be no
church tonight"
"Beany
queeny"
"Beanyo"
"Beat hitler
blues"
"Beat mister
hitler blues"
"Beat my
clay"
"Bed and
the bath, the"
"Bed on
the floor"
"Been down
the river too long"
"Been in
jail"
"Been out
on an ocean trip"
"Behind
y'r veil of lies"
"Belle
starr"
"Below
the lock and dam"
"Beluthatchee
bill"
"Berlin
town"
"Bet on
wallace"
"Better
go down an jine th'union"
"Better
world a coming"
Folder
3 - Bi-Bl:
"Big ben"
"Big boat
tug boat"
"Big john"
"Bigeye
betty"
"Bigger"
"Biggest
thing that man has ever done"
"Billy
the kid"
"Birds
& ships"
"Birminham's
jail"
"Birthday
cake"
"Biting
fly"
"Bizzness
ain't dead"
"Black
diamond"
"Black
wind blowing"
"Bleederbug"
"Blessed
& cursed"
"Blinding
of Isaac Woodward"
"Blood
of my lamb"
"Blow her
lantern out"
"Blow the
gal down"
"Blow the
man down"
"Blowe
hi"
"Blowin
down this road"
"Blubber
my gum"
"Blue eyes"
"Blue ridge
mountain blues"
"Blues
of the boils"
Folder
4 - Bo-By:
"Boile
my cabbage"
"Boomtown
bill"
"Boomtown
galleyHouse"
"Born to
win"
"Boston
flood fire"
"Bound
For Glory"
"Bound
loser"
"Boys in
blue"
"Bread
and land soldier"
"Bread
and water"
"Break
with franco"
"Briar
rabbit"
"Bright
clear day"
"Bring
it home"
"Britain's
hardwall"
"Brooklyn
state"
"Buckboard
wagon"
"Buffalo
skinners"
"Bugeye
jim"
"Build
me a boat"
"Build
me a world"
"Build
me a world"
"Build
my house"
"Bundling
bundler"
"Buoybells
for trenton"
"Burnt
up daddy"
"Burshywawe
towne"
"Bury me
beneath the willows"
"Buzzy
bill gnat"
"By my
soldier"
Folder
5 - C:
"CC ryder"
"Cadillac
cadillac"
"Cadillac
eight"
"Cajun
angel"
"Calamity
Jane"
"California
california"
"California
stars"
"Californy
gold"
"Call me
at one"
"Candy
tree"
"Cannon
ball train"
"Careless
reckless love"
"Carlson's
raider band"
"Carved
in the rocks of the ages"
"Case of
veedee, a"
"Casey
jones"
"Cashy
clothes man"
"Caved
in coaly mine"
"Central
avenue"
"Certainly
am"
"Chain
of broken hearts"
"Change
this world around"
"Chatanooga
jail in tennessee, the"
"Cheap
mike"
"Cheery
gyroekumpasss"
"Chess
horse"
"Chiang
kai chek"
"Chicago,
chicago"
"Chicken
sneeze"
"Chickysaw
boogy"
"Child
of god"
"Child
of v.d."
"Chinese
and the japs, the"
"Choo choo
train"
"Choppin
axe blues"
"Chorine
my sheba queen"
"Christmas
talking blues"
"Chrystimassy
nite"
"Chuck
them all"
"Church
in the sky"
"Chyange
kye shek"
"Cleano"
"Clock"
"Clods
for talmadge"
"Close
this kitchen down"
"Coale
operaters hadess"
"Coalery
kampy blues"
"Coalmans
mines"
"Cockity
donk"
"Cole cole
ground"
"Columbus
Georgia stockade"
"Come down
on your hoe"
"Come home"
"Come see"
"Come when
I call you"
"Condorbird"
"Coney
island"
"Convict
and the rose, the"
"Cooncan
gambler, the"
"Cotton
eye joe"
"Country
boy"
"Cow cow
yikki"
"Cow waddy"
"Cowboy
ranch"
"Cowboy
spiritual"
"Cowboy's
philosophy"
"Crackerlin
bread"
"Cripple
creek miner"
"Cumberland
mountain farms"
"Curfew
blow"
"Curley
headed baby"
"Cusss
sin skabby song"
Folder
6 - D-Di:
"Daddy
gone a ronndack"
"Dalton
boys, the"
"Dam yore
eyes"
"Dance
a little longer"
"Dance
around"
"Dance
around my atom fire"
"Dancing
studio"
"Dang my
rowdy time"
"Dark as
a dungeon"
"Dark dreary
mine"
"Dead from
the dust"
"Dead or
alive"
"Dead shot
john"
"Deadshot
dan"
"Dear mister
eisenhower"
"Dear mrs.
roosevelt"
"Dear old
sunny south by the sea"
"Dear old
waxahatchee"
"Dear wife
marjorie"
"Death
Valley Scotty"
"Death
row"
"Death
valley lovers"
"Death's
my best friend"
"Deep sea
say"
"Devil's
tail"
"Diamond
joe"
"Didn't
old john"
"Didn't
ole john"
"Dig a
hole"
"Dig my
life away"
"Dirty
overalls"
"Dirty
overhalls"
"Dissguster'd
damn blues"
Folder
7 - Do- Dy:
"Do myself"
"Do or
die"
"Do re
mi"
"Dobee
brick"
"Dodge
city jail, the"
"Dog and
a cat, a"
"Dollar
down"
"Doller
downe"
"Don't
let it get you down"
"Don't
you marry"
"Don't
you push me down"
"Doorstep
baby"
"Dope fiend
robber"
"Dorie
Miller"
"Down in
oklayhoma"
"Down the
drain"
"Down the
drain"
"Down this
river too long"
"Downtown
traffic blues"
"Downtown
traffic blues"
"Drafted"
"Draftee's
farewell, the"
"Dream
of a miner's child"
"Drunken
love match"
"Dry and
dusty hobo"
"Dry bed"
"Dry spell
on the plains"
"Duck mister
hitler"
"Duckbill
bill"
"Dumper
my bosses"
"Dust bowl
blues"
"Dust bowl
refugee"
"Dust can't
kill me"
"Dust pneumony"
"Dying
doctor"
"Dying
miner"
Folder
8 - E:
"East texas
red"
"Einstein
song"
"Eisler
on the go"
"Empty
spaces"
"End of
my line"
"England's
grass agrowing"
"Every
100 years"
"Exchange
for your soul"
Folder
9 - F:
"Face of
god"
"Face that
rifle ball"
"Face washed"
"Factory
smoke fills up my air"
"Family
reunion"
"Fare ya
well"
"Farmer
feeds us"
"Farmer-labor
train, the"
"Farmylandy
blues"
"Farther
along"
"Fast poke"
"Fastest
of ponies"
"Fatal
snowride"
"Feed of
man"
"Fibber
fibber"
"Fiddloes
dram"
"Fiery
furnace"
"Fifteen
miles from birmingham"
"Fightin'
son of a gun"
"Final
call"
"Final
call, the"
"Fire go
die"
"Fire in
the los feliz hills"
"Fire man"
"First
job"
"Fishes"
"Fishigan"
"Fishy
boat"
"Five machine
guns"
"Flipping
the gyp"
"Flowein
bowle"
"Foodle
dee rooldey"
"Foolerish
gold"
"Foure
cents a daye"
"Fox and
the goose"
"Francois
rockwall"
"Franky
weams"
"Free sample
gum"
"Freedom's
fire"
"Fruit
tramp"
"Funny
face"
"Furgeson
brothers killing"
Folder
10 - G:
"Gallery
of politics"
"Gastonia
strike"
"Gator
grunt"
"Genocide"
"Georgye
penny farm"
"Germans
and the japs, the"
"Get along,
mister hitler"
"Get together"
"Ginny
mill girl"
"Girl in
the red, white, and blue, the"
"Girl to
which I'm wed"
"Give 'em
the worst you got"
"Give me
a nail"
"Give me
the five"
"Give us
an old age pension"
"Go and
leave me"
"Go back
& try"
"Go down
and see"
"Go downe"
"Go left
& be right"
"Go left
& bee right"
"Go to
sleep"
"Go waggaloo"
"Go way"
"God made
us all"
"God o
god"
"God shows
me"
"God's
promise"
"Goin'
away to sea babe o' mine"
"Goin'
up the country"
"Going
up the mountain"
"Gonna
be a blackout tonight"
"Gonna
get through this world"
"Gonta
roll"
"Good measure"
"Good money
paid"
"Good news
roll"
"Good wobs"
"Goodnight
goodnight"
"Goodnight
little arlo"
"Goodnight
little darling"
"Goodybye
eli branch"
"Gorrilly
dance"
"Got me
worried bad"
"Gotta
cut your water down"
"Gotta
git to peekskill"
"Gotta
havey"
"Gotta
work"
"Government
road, the"
"Gowann
grass and grow"
"Grand
canyon smiles on me"
"Grand
coulee dam"
"Grand
coulee powder monkey"
"Grassy
grow"
"Grassye
mountain girl"
"Great
and bloody fight"
"Great
dust storm"
"Great
london firm"
"Great
milwaukee fire, the"
"Great
steel strike"
"Green
corn"
"Green
grow the flowers"
"Green
valley blues"
"Greenback
bills"
"Greenland
fishery"
"Greeny
corn"
"Greenycorne"
"Groundhog"
"Grow grow
grow"
"Gunner
song"
"Gunners
war song"
"Guys on
the grand coulee dam"
"Gypsy
davy"
"Gypsy's
fortune"
Folder
11 - H:
"Hally
got a sister"
"Hammer
ring"
"Hand made
bomb"
"Hand tracks"
"Hang my
clothes"
"Hannuka's
flame"
"Hanuka
bell"
"Hanuka
dance"
"Hanuka
gelt"
"Hanuka
time"
"Hanukah
tree"
"Hard ain't
it hard"
"Hard old
time with matthew kines, a"
"Hard times
on the subway"
"Hard tongue
hotel"
"Hard travelin'"
"Hard woman"
"Hard working
man was jesus, a"
"Harriet
tubman"
"Harry
bridges"
"Haul away"
"Hay stacker"
"He and
she"
"He's on
his last go round"
"Head rise"
"Headdy
down"
"Healing
hand"
"Heaven"
"Heaven
my home"
"Hello"
"Hello
dolly"
"Henreye
forde"
"Henry
wallace man"
"Hep hep
hep"
"Hey boy
lay boy"
"Hey general
mackymacker"
"Hey hey
hey hey"
"Hey hey
thomas dudley hurwitz"
"Hey lolly"
"Hey piggy
run"
"Hey rattler"
"High floods
& low waters"
"High price
blues"
"Highway
of light"
"Highway
wreck"
"Hills
of Ithaca"
"His name
was harry simms"
"Hobo lullaby"
"Hoe the
rows well willy"
"Hoecake
fritters"
"Hokenay"
"Hold on"
"Hole in
the ground"
"Holey
stocking blues"
"Holy ground"
"Holy hanukah"
"Home in
that rock"
"Home on
my ship"
"Honeyky
hanukah"
"Hoodoo
voodoo"
"Hootenanny
gal"
"Hootin
at the hoot"
"Hooversvill"
"Hossyassy
blues"
"Hot rod
hotel"
"Hour cometh,
the"
"House
of sad retreat"
"How does
it sound"
"How joo
do?"
"Hudson
river"
"Hullabaloo
belay"
"Hunter
& finder"
BOX
2
Folder
12 - I -Il:
"I
ain't dead"
"I am not
alone"
"I am thy
god"
"I asked
a little birdy"
"I been
so many places"
"I been
told"
"I can't
be a happy this a way"
"I don't
ask a million dollars"
"I don't
feel at home on the bowery no more"
"I don't
like your 'lantic pact"
"I get
mine"
"I go beach"
"I gotta
go down"
"I guess
I planted"
"I have
seen twenty men"
"I just
now thought a thought"
"I know
just exactly how it feels"
"I like
to stay home with daddy"
"I love
my union"
"I ran
my eye out over the country here"
"I ride
an old paint"
"I see
you"
"I slave
in y'r factyree no more"
"I take
my penny"
"I took
a trip"
"I took
to the cold and bitter cup"
"I want
to make"
"I want
to ride"
"I want
to sing a song to the rich man"
"I wanta
go back"
"I was
born"
"I was
born in old boston's fair city"
"I was
sick"
"I will
tell you of my work"
"I wonder
how the old folks are at home"
"Ice in
my whiskers"
"Icicle
john"
"Ida red"
"If I am
this country"
"If I was
everything on earth"
"If you
say"
"If you
want to go to heaven"
"If you
wanta live in Hooversville"
"I'll feed
you my corn"
"I'll fight"
"I'll fight
for the usa"
"I'll get
home"
"I'll not
beg"
"I'll spell
you a word"
"I'll write
my name down in blood red blood"
"Ilsa koch"
Folder
13 - Im-Iv:
"I'm a
child ta fight"
"I'm a
fool"
"I'm always
on the go"
"I'm bound"
"I'm bound
to follow the longhorn cows"
"I'm gettin'
home"
"I'm goin'
back to the farm"
"I'm goin'
ta git"
"I'm living
in coney's island"
"I'm lookin
for that new deal now"
"I'm out
to get"
"I'm shipping
up to boston"
"I'm th'
man thet rode th' mule around th' world"
"I'm the
man that broke that egg"
"I'm the
wife of a company scab"
"I'ma goin'
fishin'"
"I'ma headin
back ta denver"
"In kansyassssss"
"In my
home town where I did well"
"In my
town"
"Indian
boy"
"Indian
summer's sky"
"Ingrid
bergman"
"It takes
a married man to sing a worried song"
"It was
down in old pearl harbor"
"It's a
wrinkled, crumpled, rumpled look"
"It's hanukah"
"I've come
here by foot"
"I've got
to know"
"I've served
my time on the bowery"
Folder
14 - J:
"Jack hammer
blues"
"Jackhammer
john"
"Jailcell
blues"
"Jailyhouse
blues"
"Jake walk"
"Jarama
Valley"
"Jeffy
buckner"
"Jericho's
road"
"Jerry's
rocky jam"
"Jesse
james and his boys"
"Jest because
blues"
"Jesus
christ"
"Jesus
my doctor"
"Jigalong"
"Jigger
jigger jim"
"Jiggle
jaggle"
"Jiggytoe
jig"
"Jim dancer"
"Jimmy
whalen"
"Jinga
linnng"
"Joady
lee"
"Joe Dimaggio
done it again"
"Joe hillstrom"
"John henry"
"Johnny
hart"
"Join that
a.f. of l."
"Jonah
kelly"
"Judge
Medina"
"Judge
parker"
"Juggy
band boy"
"Just one
more time"
Folder
15 - K:
"Kangaroo
talking blues"
"Kansas
city fire blues"
"Kennedy,
he's that man"
"Kickin
my habit"
"Kiss my
mother again"
"Kissin'
On"
"Kloo klacka
klambo"
"Kotton
kroppy blues"
Folder
16 - L:
"Laborsday
chants"
"Ladies
auxiliary"
"Last class
seaman"
"Lay down
little doggies"
"Lead hoss
& tail hoss"
"Leather
boots"
"Left in
this world all alone"
"Let me
go"
"Let them
talk"
"Letter
from hell"
"Letter
to peekskillers"
"Liddle
riddle"
"Life's
other side"
"Light
brigade"
"Listen
little children"
"Listening
to that wind that blows"
"Lites
on denver"
"Little
Billy"
"Little
bird"
"Little
cathy anny"
"Little
curly head"
"Little
moses"
"Little
Sacka Sugar"
"Little
schoolgirl morning"
"Little
suggytit"
"Little
white cottage"
"Livery
barn"
"Living
is fun"
"Londons
blind fog"
"Lonesome
soul blues"
"Long &
hard"
"Long and
lonesome chain"
"Long and
lonesome day"
"Long time,
a"
"Longhairy
preacher"
"Longpole
john"
"Looberty
lay"
"Look like
a monkey"
"Look out
hitler"
"Look out
my window"
"Look within"
"Looks
like it's here"
"Lord it's
almost done"
"Lord only
knows"
"Loredo
street"
"Los cuatro
generales"
"Los Gatos
plane wreck"
"Love thyself"
"Love's
the cure"
"Low levee
bully"
"Ludlow
massacre"
"Lumber
is king"
"Lynchburg
town"
Folder
17 - Ma-Mo:
"Madonna
on the curb"
"Maggie
mozella mcgee"
"Magnetic
mine"
"Mail myself
to you"
"Mailman"
"Make a
blubble"
"Make up
your mind"
"Mama and
papa game"
"Mama daddy
little one"
"Mama's
little baby boy"
"Many &
the few, the"
"Many in
one"
"Marie
fagin"
"Mario
russo"
"Marion
massacre"
"Marion
strike"
"Matthew
mark"
"Me &
my doctor"
"Mean thing"
"Meanest
man"
"Merchant
seaman, the"
"Mermaid's
avenue"
"Merry
go round"
"Mexico"
"Midnite
special"
"Milkry
trust"
"Miner's
childs dream"
"Miner's
kids and wives"
"Miner's
life"
"Miss Pavlachenko"
"Missippy
low levee"
"Missipy
mud hog"
"Missy
payday is gone"
"Mister
kundif's jug"
"Molly
mcguhir"
"Money
to burn"
"Moneyless
children"
"More pretty
gals than one"
"Moses's
rocke"
"Mother
sing again"
"Mound
of your grave"
Folder
18 - Mr-My:
"Mr. rabbit
mr. rabbit"
"Mr. tom
mooney is free"
"My answer
to moonlight and skies"
"My answer
to the reply to the birmingham jail"
"My barditch"
"My battle"
"My battlin
grounds"
"My best
doctor"
"My bible
song"
"My billy
boy"
"My book
of ruth"
"My bottle
& blanket"
"My brain
is heavy loaded..."
"My brown
eyes"
"My candy
man"
"My chhhooorrreeaaye"
"My children"
"My cross
& yours"
"My cumberland
mountain gal"
"My daggery
knife"
"My deisal
train blues"
"My desert
blossom"
"My dolly"
"My eyes
gonna shine"
"My faith"
"My flowers
grow green"
"My flying
saucer"
"My green
June corn"
"My grysforde
explosiun"
"My holey
ghost"
"My holyday
prayer book"
"My hootenney"
"My id
& my ego"
"My jesus
and my races"
"My jig
trotter"
"My konntiki
raft"
"My l and
n striker"
"My last
letter"
"My litehouse"
"My little
chicky dee"
"My little
darling"
"My little
pretty cup"
"My little
seed"
"My longo
time"
"My lowell
milly girl"
"My morphene
girl"
"My new
york city"
"My olde
enjinne"
"My people
pray"
"My pisstaloe
hustage blues"
"My polly
canyun puppytent"
"My pony"
"My poore
old soul"
"My pretty
snowdeer"
"My reddy
print bible"
"My rifel"
"My rolling
ocean"
"My scarlet
banner"
"My sickerly
children"
"My signs"
"My soul's
got wings"
"My student
nurse"
"My sugar
in the gourd"
"My sunshiny
day"
"My sweet
and bitter bowl"
"My sweetyole
CIO"
"My thirty
thousand"
"My three
races"
"My two
bums"
"My uaw
cio"
"My union
county gal"
"My word"
"My yellow
crayon"
"Mye blue
eyes"
"Mye coalwerker
laddy"
Folder
19 - N:
"Naked
seed"
"Natural
man"
"Navaho
lands"
"Needle
Song"
"Never
did let my union down"
"Never
git drunk anymore"
"Never
git drunk no more"
"New found
land"
"New star"
"New union
highway"
"New way
of loving"
"New year's
talking blues"
"New years
flood, the"
"New york
town"
"New york
trains, the"
"New zealand
wreck"
"Nickety
nackety now now now"
"Nicotene
fits"
"Nine hundred
miles"
"Nine little
turkeys"
"1913 Massacre"
"Ninetery
seven"
"Ninety
mile wind"
"No bread
for the poor"
"No fear"
"No more
letters"
"No more
peekskill"
"No no
satan"
"No water
for baby"
"Nobody's
business but my own"
"Normandie
was her name"
"North
sea's flood"
"Nosh oh
nosh"
"Not dead"
"Nude Colonee"
"Number
9 wreck"
Folder
20 - O:
"O' tell
me how long long"
"O' that
cannon ball"
"Ocean
go"
"Ocean's
rock house"
"Odd gallop"
"Odd ones"
"Ode man
joade"
"Oh doctor
won't you come?"
"Oh fever"
"Oklahoma
hills"
"Old New
London"
"Old abe"
"Old atom
hunter"
"Old blue"
"Old broadway"
"Old brown
hills"
"Old cap
moore"
"Old cracked
looking glass"
"Old east
virginny"
"Old kokaine"
"Old l.a."
"Old man
joads"
"Old man
of my mountains"
"Old missouri
mountain"
"Old paint"
"Old sea
hound"
"Old shoe"
"Old time
religion"
"Olde chykawgoe"
"Ole drunk
steer"
"On bodies
and on bones"
"On christe's
birthynite"
"On my
railroad"
"On my
way"
"On the
blow"
"On top
of old fifth street"
"Once upon
creation's morning"
"One by
one"
"One by
one"
"One day
old"
"One good
job"
"One mile
from the human race"
"One step
two"
"One thing
the atom cain't do"
"One to
ten"
"One year
older"
"Ones &
twos"
"Orange
blossom ring"
"Oregon
line"
"Orphan
janey"
"Out from
the wolf's belly"
"Out of
work"
"Out on
deck"
"Out past
the end of the line"
"Out west
of here"
"Outydoors
hospistial"
"Over by
the cotton gin"
Folder
21 - P:
"P for
peekskill"
"P for
plenty"
"P for
portland"
"Pacing
this ward"
"Palmetto
veedee blues"
"Pancho
villa meets guss gonzalless"
"Parody
to old faithful"
"Pass away"
"Pastures
of plenty"
"Peace
town"
"Peacocky
street"
"Pearl
harbor"
"Pearly
girl"
"Peejammers
I hate"
"Peekskill
blues"
"Peekskill
boogie"
"Peekskill
fiery kross"
"Peekskill
gal"
"Peekskill
golfing grounds"
"Peekskill
klooklux blues"
"Peekskill
my peekskill"
"Peekskill
papa"
"Peekskill
poecop"
"Peekskill
rider"
"Peekskill
town"
"Pencil
for my aged"
"People
are clay"
"People's
songs"
"Perty
& clean"
"Perty
nurses"
"Perty
nurses"
"Peter
amberley"
"Philadelphia
lawyer"
"Pick it
up"
"Picket
line blues"
"Picketline
love"
"Pistol
packer"
"Poll tax
chain"
"Polly
canun blued"
"Poor little
stevie"
"Poor little
tommy"
"Poore
howard"
"Poore
loney weavyer
"Portland
town to klamath"
"Portlande
to portlande"
"Pretty
and shinyo"
"Pretty
baby"
"Pretty
boy floyd"
"Pretty
little baby"
"Pretty
maidel"
"Pretty
polly"
"Pretty
pretty girl"
"Prison
cell dream"
"Prisoner's
river"
"Prisoner's
wife"
"Private
waters"
"Punching
this dough"
"Pushy
Poosh"
"Put your
finger in the air"
"Puzzy
is a perty thong"
"Puzzzey
song"
Folder
22 - Q:
"Queen
of my love"
"Queeny
Beany"
"Question
box"
"Quit your
ticklin"
Folder
23 - R:
"Race you
down the mountain"
"Radio
theme song"
"Rag'dy
raggerdly"
"Raileroadey
slaver"
"Railroad
corral"
"Railroad
guys"
"Rainbow
sign"
"Rainoe
raine"
"Rainy
night"
"Raise
a rukus tonight"
"Raise
up"
"Ramblin
reckless hobo"
"Ramblin'
blues"
"Ramblin'
gambler"
"Ramblin'
round"
"Ranch
of the sea"
"Rancho
grande vigilante, the"
"Rancho
grandy"
"Rangers'
command, the"
"Rapaport's
store"
"Rattle
my rattle"
"Rebels
boy"
"Reckless
talk"
"Red river
valley"
"Red runner"
"Reddy
leady"
"Remember
the mountain bed"
"Reuben
james"
"Reuben
reuben"
"Revolutionary
boy"
"Revolutionary
mind"
"Richman
poreman"
"Richman's
bitch"
"Riding
down my old rock canyon"
"Riding
in my car"
"Ring around
the fascist"
"Rio grande
valley"
"Rise up
people"
"River
bottom peach tent"
"Riveryboate
gamboler"
"Rock of
gibraltar"
"Rockefeller
boom"
"Rockville
center train wreck"
"Rocky
canyons"
"Roll into
germany"
"Roll on
buddy"
"Roll on
columbia"
"Roll on
little ocean"
"Rolly
green hills of vermont"
"Roodey
roodeye ray"
"Roosevelt
boogie"
"Roosevelt
man"
"Rosalee
ingram"
"Roseywood
casket"
"Rosin
teebee"
"Round
up the nazis"
"Rounder's
name, a"
"Rover
dog rover"
"Rowl dee
fowl dee"
"Rub my
tumbo"
"Ruby bates
letter"
"Run hitler
run"
"Run little
judey"
"Runaway
train"
"Runaway
trucke"
"Ruthy
goofy"
"Rye straw"
"Rye whuxxkee"
BOX
3
Folder
24 - Sa-So:
"Sad canyon
ranch"
"Sad ship"
"Sail away"
"Sally
ann"
"Sally
don't you grieve"
"Sally
goodin"
"Salvation
train"
"Santa
fe girly"
"Save your
kisses"
"Save your
water"
"Save yourself
for me"
"Sawlty
dawg"
"Say mister
rabbit"
"Scabber
caseye jones"
"School
girl"
"Scoth
hills"
"Scottsboro
jail"
"Scottyboro
deathyhouse"
"Screwball
cannonball"
"Seaman's
yodeling guitar"
"Secrets
of the sea"
"See me"
"See my
ship"
"See the
waters gliding, hear the nightingale sing"
"Seven
sevens"
"Shally
henn der gartern"
"Shantyman's
hard life"
"Sharecroppy
dream"
"She's
down"
"Shenydoe"
"Sherman
texas cyclone"
"Ship didn't
return"
"Ship in
the sky"
"Ship in
the storm"
"Ship is
a moving"
"Ship on
the waters"
"Shoe on
wrong"
"Shook
old frisco down"
"Shy yang
kye check"
"Side line
woman"
"Sign from
the sky"
"Sing"
"Sing out"
"Sing praises"
"Sing your
name"
"Sittin'
by the highway"
"Sixty
six highway blues"
"Skippy
skip"
"Sleep
eye"
"Sleep
in y'r tent"
"Sleep
in your barn"
"Sleepy
Eyes"
"Slick
snake blues"
"Slim houston"
"Slipknot"
"Sloppery
slippery"
"Smoggy
old smog"
"Smoke
looks lonesome"
"Snow song"
"Snow white
and rose red"
"Snowsled
song"
"So long
it's been good to know you"
"Soap and
waters"
"Socialismo"
"Soda soda"
"Solidarity"
"Someday
some morning sometime"
"Sometimes"
"Song about
a bear that ain't got no name"
"Song about
tipping"
"Song of
the grand coulee dam"
"Sorrow
constant"
"Soul fixer"
"Southern
white blues"
Folder
25 - Sp-Sy:
"Speedy
beetle"
"Squiddy
diggin grounde"
"S.S. William
Floyd"
"Stabing
boarder"
"Stack
my blocks"
"Stacky
boney"
"Stalin
aviation march"
"Start
y'r music"
"Stay away
from home brew wine and likker too"
"Steamboat
whistle blow"
"Steel
heel, The"
"Stewball
nag"
"Stewbally"
"Stewbum
winoe"
"Streets
of Peekskill"
"Streets
of laredo"
"Stremberry
rhone"
"Stuccoed
house, the"
"Sue and
teeny in and out of jail"
"Suffer
little children to come unto me"
"Sun jumped
up, the"
"Sun song"
"Sunny
mountain"
"Sunshiny
day in june"
"Sweet
birds"
"Sweet
bosom of life"
"Sweet
peace"
"Sweetest
angel in this world"
"Sweety
maxene"
"Sweety
sweete dream"
"Swimmy
swim"
"Syckamore
timbers"
"Syphyliss
gonoreea & hotty balls"
Folder
26 - Ta-Te:
"Take a
run down around mexico"
"Take a
tip from me"
"Take care
of mother and dad"
"Take it
easy"
"Take my
blame"
"Take my
turn"
"Takes
our good old NMU"
"Taking
it easy when the sirens blow"
"Talk about
hungry"
"Talkin
atom bomb"
"Talkin
beefsteak"
"Talkin
big bumb"
"Talkin
elevated"
"Talkin
empty bed blues"
"Talkin
gambler blues"
"Talkin
peekskill"
"Talkin
rathole blues"
"Talkin
rations"
"Talkin
subways"
"Talkin
tytanick"
"Talking
cattle brander"
"Talking
columbia"
"Talking
dance call"
"Talking
fishing blues"
"Talking
hard luck blues"
"Talking
hitler's head off blues"
"Talking
ice skating blues"
"Talking
juke box"
"Talking
korea blues"
"Talking
lindberg blues"
"Talking
meaness"
"Talking
miner"
"Talking
news blues"
"Talking
project house"
"Talking
sailor"
"Talking
sea gull"
"Talking
seaman"
"Talking
soldier"
"Talking
stetson kennedy"
"Talking
union"
"Tangywoo
boy"
"Taos pueblo"
"Tea bag
blues"
"Tear this
jail down"
"Ten times
more"
Folder
27 - Th -Ty:
"That cannon
ball"
"That's
why we're standing in the rain"
"Thats
why i love"
"Them big
city ways"
"There's
more true lovers than one"
"3rd party
line"
"Thirty
four ways"
"This boat"
"This could
never happen in my dear old sunny south"
"This is
a picture"
"This is
mine"
"This is
the house where the Almanacs use to stay"
"This land
is your land"
"This life
is hard"
"This morning
I am born again"
"This old
clink of my dunky glass"
"This one
song"
"This road"
"This train
is a union flyer"
"Thread
my needle"
"Three
sisters"
"Throw
my ball"
"Thy faith
hath made me whole"
"Ti ti
tooky tooky tidle Oh"
"Ticky
Tock"
"Timberyman's
day"
"Time time,
a"
"Tinhorn
cowboy"
"Tip tap
toe"
"Tizzy
tizzy tizzy"
"Toast
to a jailer"
"Tom Joad"
"Too mucho
drink"
"Topanga
blingo blango california"
"Topango
canyone"
"Tractor
song"
"Trade
f'r y'r soule"
"Train
wheel"
"Trenton
frameup, The"
"Trenton
six"
"Trick
or treat"
"Trouble
of mine"
"Trouble
on the waters"
"Tucumcari
sari"
"Turpentiny
camp blues"
"Twin mountain
waltz"
"Two 6s
upside down"
"Two forty
three"
"Tytanick"
Folder
28 - U:
"Udah cylone"
"Ugly jackass"
"Un building
song"
"Uncle
sam"
"Union
blue"
"Union
buryin' ground"
"Union
clog"
"Union
feelin"
"Union
girl"
"Union
Maid"
"Union
maid #1"
"Union
meeting"
"Union
prayer"
"Union
spirit"
"Union
train"
"Union's
my religion"
"Unione
rock"
"Unione
wormban"
"Unione
wracker"
"Unwelcomed
guest, the"
"Updide
down"
Folder
29 - V:
"Valley
in peace"
"Vanport
flood"
"Vd avenue"
"Vd city"
"Vd day"
"Vd gunner"
"Veedee
blues"
"Veedee
seaman's letter"
"Victory
of the Whelan strikers"
"Vigilante
man"
Folder
30 - Wa-Whe:
"Wake up"
"Wakeup
worker"
"Walk right
in"
"Walkin
down the railroad line, a"
"Walkin
gown"
"Walkin
upta high street"
"Wallace
button"
"Wallace
day"
"Wallace
meeting grounds"
"Walt Whitmans
neice"
"War bond
gal of mine"
"War bond
song"
"Warden
of the skies"
"Warshey
little tootsey"
"Washington
talkin blues"
"Wasp bite
nobie"
"Watches
fine"
"Waters
are arising"
"Way over
yonder in the minor key"
"We are
coming, father abraham"
"Wear my
rainbow"
"Weaver
life"
"Weaver
theme song"
"Weavryroom
blues"
"Wedded
to a dancer"
"Welcome
in! franklin d.!"
"Westinghouse
westinghouse"
"What do
I want"
"What kind
of bomb?"
"What shall
it profit a man"
"What town
is this?"
"What you
gonna do"
"Whatchagonnadoo?"
"Wheel
a wheeling"
"Wheel
of life"
"Wheelbarrow
song"
"When I
get home"
"When I
lost you"
"When I
was a little boy"
"When I'm
gone, Sally don't you grieve"
"When my
good ship went down"
"When the
curfew blows"
"When the
rent comes due again"
"When the
yanks go marchin' in"
"When you
live on that old dusty road"
"When you're
down and out"
"Where
am I?"
"Where
are you going my c.i.o."
"Where
did you go?"
"Where
the doggies go"
"Where
trouble is at"
Folder
31 - Whi-Wr:
"Which
a way does windy river flow"
"Which
side are you on?"
"Whiskey
blue"
"Whiskey
stew"
"Whitaker
town"
"Who poured
my wages down the drain?"
"Whoopie-ti-yi-yo"
"Why do
you stand there in the rain?"
"Why?"
"Whyo why?"
"Wicked
citye"
"Wild aminul"
"Wild and
reckless hobo"
"Wild bill
jones"
"Wild card
in the hole"
"Wild cyclone"
"Wild oaken
tree"
"Wilder
blues, the"
"Will come"
"Will my
family be united"
"Will rogers
highway"
"Willy
mcgee"
"Willya
missy me"
"Wind my
klock"
"Wind that
blows"
"Windy
day, a"
"Woke up
this morning with a foggy brain"
"Woman
at home"
"Woman's
odd ways"
"Women's
hats"
"Woodbine
twiner"
"Woodstock
wreck"
"Woody
& Lefty Lou's theme song"
"Woody
and lefty lou's horsecollar blues"
"Woody
guthrie's true love"
"Woody's
never miss your mother"
"Words
from Jesus"
"Work hollers"
"Worker's
guns"
"Worker's
sun"
"Working
man jesus"
"Works
of man"
"World
onna fire"
"World
turns 'round and 'round, the"
"Wormy
song"
"Wreck
of the pelican, the"
Folder
32 - Y:
"Yallerhammer"
"Yess lord"
"Yo ho"
"You and
I"
"You better
get ready"
"You gonna
see me"
"You guys
toot joy"
"You know
what to do"
"You to
me"
"You tucsony
girl"
"You'd
ought to be satisfied now"
"You're
gone, you fascist, you're gone"
"Younge
henreye"
"Your music"
"Your sandal
string"
"Your sweet
breast"
"Your words"
Folder
33 - Z:
"Zibber
zee, The"
"Zoo zoo
song: zoozoo, zoozoo, zoozoo zoo zoo!"
Folder
34 - unidentified and untitled song texts
Folder
35 - Song lists
Folder
36 - Song Introductions
Folder
37 - Extra copies (created by WG, not signed)
Genre headings Authority List:
anti-fascist
bawdy
BPA
children
cowboy
dustbowl
Henry A. Wallace
hobo
jail
love
migrant
traditional
outlaw
peace
race/freedom
railroad
religious
road
Sacco & Vanzetti
slave
talking blues
union & labor
VD
war
war (anti-fascist)
war ( Korea )
war (Merchant Marine)
war (other WWII)
Please Note: BPA = Bonneville Power Authority
"children" includes infant songs
"traditional" = folksongs
"union & labor" includes union songs and songs of various labor situations, beyond organized labor only.
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