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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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