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Song lyrics

This page is for lyrics to songs in which the words have passed into the Public Domain, chiefly through age. Note that few modern songs would fit the critera for inclusion.

Please also consult the sub-indices at;

• Wikisource:National anthems
• Wikisource:Hymns

Contents 1 Folk songs 2 Popular 19th century songs 3 Campaign songs 4 Other 5 Sea shanties 6 Christmas Carols 7 Canadian songs

[edit] Folk songs

• Ballad of Chevy Chase, The
• Bridget O'Malley
• Casey Jones
• Cross of the South - Traditional Australian folksong
• Cuckoo Song, The - 13th/14th century lyric
• Early One Morning - traditional Folk Song
• Elefantes - traditional latin Children's song
• Farther Along
• Finnegan's Wake - Irish ballad
• Frankie and Johnnie
• Frog Went A-Courting
• Green Grow the Rushes, O
• Londonderry Air
• Old Dan Tucker
• Sleep, my Child
• Softly and Tenderly

[edit] Popular 19th century songs

• John Brown's Body
• Go Tell Aunt Rody
• Battle Cry of Freedom
• The Original Jim Crow

[edit] Campaign songs

• Tippecanoe and Tyler too, written by Alexander Coffman Ross for John Tyler's Vice Presidency campaign in the 1840 US Presidential election
• Rough and Ready, written by Alfred Wheeler for Zachary Taylor's campaign in the 1848 US Presidential election
• Lincoln and Liberty, written by Jesse Hurchinson for Abraham Lincoln's campaign in the 1860 US Presidential election
• Little Mac! Little Mac!, written by Stephen C. Foster for George McClellan's failed campaign in the 1860 US Presidential election
• Hurrah! Hurrah! For Cleve and Steve, written by Gertie Jones for Grover Cleveland's failed re-election campaign in the 1888 US Presidential election
• Our Good and Honest Taft, waltz written by Annie R. Waln Bassett for Howard Taft's campaign in the 1908 US Presidential election
• Harding, written by John C. Madden for Warren Harding's campaign in the 1920 US Presidential election

• Ballad of the Gruesome Twosome

[edit] Other

• All Around the Mulberry Bush
• I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am
• Knees Up Mother Brown
• Little Annie Rooney
• "good ol' song"
• The Internationale
• The Internationale (Kerr)
• K-K-K-Katy
• Nellie Dean
• We Shall Overcome (song)
• Egyptian Girl Scouts Anthem

[edit] Sea shanties

• Treasure Island
  • The Dead Man's Chest
  • Derelict
  • Stevenson's Sailor Song
  • Billy Bones's Fancy
• Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates
• Henry Martyn
• Ten Thousand Miles Away

[edit] Christmas Carols

See w:Christmas carols and Category:Christmas carols

• Adeste Fideles, written by John Francis Wade in 1742, and translated into English by Frederick Oakeley.
• Angels, from the Realms of Glory, written by James Montgomery.
• Away in a Manger
• Boar's Head Carol, traditional English carol
• Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, by Charles Wesley
• Coventry Carol
• Deck the Halls
• Gesu Bambino, 1917
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, 1833
• The Holly and the Ivy
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
• In Excelsis Gloria, traditional
• In Dulci Jubilo, traditional
• It Came upon a Midnight Clear
• Jingle Bells, written in 1857 for Thanksgiving
• Joy to the World
• The Legend of St. Nicholas, English translation by James Henry Dixon
• No Room at the Inn, 1916
• Silent Night, written by Josef Mohr.
• Still, Still, Still, traditional
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas, traditional English carol
• Hymn on the Nativity, 1616 by Ben Jonson

[edit] Canadian songs

• O Canada, national anthem
• The Maple Leaf Forever, written in 1867 by Alexander Muir
• This Canada of Ours, written in 1867 by J.D. Edgar
• Our Dominion, written in 1867 by G.R. Kingsmill
• Anti-Confederation Song, anonymously written to oppose Canadian Confederation