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Finding aid to WOODY GUTHRIE SONG LYRICS circa 1930s to circa 1950s Song lyric sheets held by the Woody Guthrie Archives are organized into three separate series. This series, SONGS-1, is comprised of loose lyric sheets, which are housed in folders by alphabetical order. SONGS-2 is comprised of songs included in Woody Guthrie's notebooks, which may also include drawings, poems, or other notations. SONGS-3, contains lyrics found in oversize notebooks.
SONGS-1: Song texts on individual sheets of paper. Total of 1327 songs, housed in 3 boxes
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 songsheet 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 3 "genre" headings, although more may apply. "Genre headings" Authority List: anti-fascist *Note: BPA+ Bonneville
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Collection restrictions: Songs which are not copyrighted need to 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 the SONGS-1 database will help clarify the number of versions of any given song. The principal title in the databases correspond to the Woody Guthrie spelling under which the item is filed. A song may have been assigned up to 3 "genre" headings, although more may apply.
*Note: Two exceptions to alphabetical arrangement exist. The first are a grouping in folder 21 of "Peekskill songs." 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." Secondly, "Talkin’" and "Talking" titles are interfiled, with or without a "g" on the end.
*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 databases 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" < |