Non-Copyrighted Tunes for Public Performance

Tune List Compiled by Friends of the Old Time Jam
Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea - Roanoake VA - March 2006

 

 

Traditional (old time) music consists of songs and tunes which have been performed, by custom, over a long period (usually several generations). They are most often folk songs, country dance or similar types of folk music but they can also be pieces from known early composers and may have been the "pop music " of their time. Many of the pieces trace back to European origins. Traditional music (or public domain) is also used as a copyright status covering music which is out of copyright.

To the best of our knowledge, all of these tunes are non-copyrighted.

 

 

version:  March 26 2006

 

 

 

Angel Band

Angelina Baker                     

Annie Laurie             

Arkansas Traveler

Ash Grove

Aunt Rhody   

Back Up & Push

Back Step Cindy

Barlow Knife

Battleship of Maine

Bells of St Mary’s 

Bible’s True, The

Big Eyed Rabbit

Big Rock Candy Mountain  

Big Scioty

Bile Them Cabbage Down

Bill Cheatam

Billy in the Low Ground

Birdie

Black Ey’d Susan

Black Mountain Rag

Blackberry Blossom

Blue Bells of Scotland

Blue Tail Fly  

Boatman, The            

Boll Weevil

Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine (Sherman’s     March)

Bonaparte's Retreat

Boys Them Buzzards is Flying

Breaking Up Christmas

Briarpicker Brown

Brighton Camp/The Girl I Left Behind Me

Broken-down Gambler

Brown-skinned Girl Down the Road

Buffalo Gals

Bull At The Wagon

Bully of the Town

Camp Chase

Camptown Races

Candy Girl

Carroll County Blues

Charleston Gals        

Cherokee Shuffle

Chicken Reel

Chinese Breakdown

Cider Mill

Cindy

Clementine    

Cluck Old Hen

Colored Aristocracy

Combination Rag

Come Dance & Sing

Come Over & See Me Sometime

Cornbread & Butterbeans

Cotton-Eyed Joe

Cowboy’s Dream

Crawdad

Cricket On The Hearth

Cripple Creek

Crooked Stove Pipe

Crow Black Chicken

Cuckoo

Cuckoo's Nest 

Cumberland Gap

Dance All Night

Danville Girl

Dark Hollow Blues

Darling Corey

Deep Elem Blues

Devilish Mary

Devil’s Dream

Dinah

Dixie              

Done Gone

Don’t Let Your Deal Go  Down

Double File

Down Yonder

Drunken Hiccups

Dry & Dusty

Dubuque

Ducks On The Mill Pond

Ducks On The Pond

Durang's Hornpipe

Dusty Miller

Ebenezer

Eighth of January

Elzik’s Farewell

Fair & Tender Ladies

Fall(s) of Richmond

Fall on my Knees

Farewell to Whisky

Fire on the Mountain

Fisher’s Hornpipe

Flop-eared Mule

Florida Blues

Flowers of Edinburgh

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

Flying Injun/Indian

Folding Down The Sheets

Forked Deer

Fortune

Four Cent Cotton

Frosty Morning

Gal (Girl) I Left Behind Me

Gaspe Reel

Georgia Camp Meeting        

Give the Fiddler a Dram

Glory in the Meetinghouse

Goober Peas

Good Old Mountain Dew

Golden Slippers         

Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight

Goodbye Girls I’m Off to Boston

Goodbye Liza Jane   

Goodbye Miss Liza Jane

Grandfather’s Clock    

Granny Does Your Dog Bite

Grasshopper On A Sweet Potato Vine

Greasy Coat

Greasy String

Green Back Dollar

Green River March

Green Valley Waltz

Green Willis

Greenback Dollar

Greensleeves 

Grey Eagle

Ground Hog 

Growling Old Man, Growling Old      Woman

Grubb Springs

Half Past Four

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

Handsome Molly

Hangman’s Reel

Hard Times Come Again No More  

Hawks & Eagles

Hell Amongst the Yearlings

Hell Broke Loose in Georgia

High Yellow

Hog Eye

Hog Eyed Man

Hollow Poplar

Home Brew Rag

Home on the Range 

Hop Along Peter

Hop Light Ladies      

I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground

Ida Red

I’ll Fly Away

I’m Gwine Back to Dixie      

In the Pines

I’ve Been All Around the World

I’ve Got No Honey Babe Now

In The Pines

In The Sweet Bye & Bye

Indian Ate the Woodchuck

Irish Washer Woman, The

It Just Suits Me

Jawbone

Jaybird

Jeff Davis

Jenny Lind Polka 

Jimmy in the Swamp

Jingle Bells    

John Brown’s Dream

John Brown’s March

John Hardy

John Henry  

John Ryan's Polka

Johnny Don’t Come Home

Johnny Don’t Get Drunk

Johnny’s Lover’s Gone

Joke on the Puppy

Jordan Am a Hard Road to               Trabbel (Travel)

Josie-o

Joys of Quebec

Julianne Johnson

Jump Jim Crow

June Apple

Katy(ie) Cline

Katy Did

Keep On the Sunny Side

Keep the Ark A Moving

Kitchen Girl (Gal)

La Bastringue

Ladies Waist Ribbon

Lady of the Lake

Lacy of the Lake II

Last of Callahan, The

Leather Britches

Lee Highway Blues

Liberty

Liberty Off The Corn  Liquor Still

Little Billy Wilson

Little Brown Jug  

Little Gal that Fooled Me

Little Liza Jane

Little Maggie

Little Old Log Cabin in the                Lane  

Liza Jane

Little Rabbit  /Rabbit  Where’s Your  Mammy

Liverpool Hornpipe

Logan County Blues

Lonesome Blues       

New Money

New River Train

Nine Pound Hammer (Roll    on Buddy)

Nobody’s Darlin

North Carolina Breakdown

Oh! Susanna  

Ookpic Waltz

Old Bunch of Keys

Old Dan Tucker        

Old Grey Mare  

Old Jimmy Sutton

Old Joe Clark

Old Molly Hare

Old Mother Flanagan

Old Sledge

Old Sport

Old Uncle Ned           

Over the Waterfall

Over the Waves Waltz

Paddy on the Turnpike

Peek-a-Boo Waltz     

Petronella

Pig Ankle Rag

Pikes Peak

Piney Woods

Piney Woods Gal

Policeman

Polly Wolly Doodle

Possum up a Gum Stump

Pretty Little Dog

Quince Dillon’s High D

Rabbit in the Pea Patch

Rabbit up a Gum Stump

Rachel

Ragtime Annie

Red Fox Waltz

Red Haired Boy/Little             Beggarman

Red River Valley                  

Red Wing                              

Richmond

Richmond Cotillion

Rickett's Hornpipe

Rochester Schottische

Rock The Cradle Joe

Rocky Mountain Goat

Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms (lapsed copyright)

Roscoe

Rose of the Mountain

Rosin the Bow

Round Town Girls

Rufus Rastus

Rye Straw

Rye Whiskey

Sail Away Ladies

 

 

Saint Anne’s Reel

Sal’s Got A Meatskin

Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Toes

Sally Ann

Sally Ann Johnson

Sally Johnson

Sally in the Garden

Sally Goodin

Salt River/Creek

Sandy Boys

Sandy River Belles

Santa Anna’s Retreat

Saturday Night Breakdown

Seeing Nelly Home   

Seneca Square Dance

Shady Grove (traditional)

Shakin’ Down the Acorns

She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain

Sheebeg Sheemore

Shelvin’ Rock

Shenandoah   

Shipping Port

Shoes & Stockings

Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me

Shoot That Turkey             Buzzard

Shootin’ Creek

Short Life of Trouble

Shortnin’ Bread

Sleepy Lulu

(My Pretty) Snow Deer

Snowshoes

Soap Suds Over the Fence

Soldier’s Joy

Sourwood Mountain

Speed the Plough 

Spinning Wheel

Spotted Pony

Squirrel Hunters       

Spotted Pony

Stagolee/Stacker Lee/            Stack-A-Lee

Star of Bethlehem

Staten Island Hornpipe

Stay All Night

Sugar Hill

Sugar in the Gourd    

Susanna Gal

Sweet Sunny South

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Tain’t Nobody’s Business             if I Do                        

Tam Lin

Tater Patch

Tell Her to Come Back             Home

Temperance Reel

Tennessee Coon

Texas

Texas Gales/Girls/Gals

Texas Fair

That’s My Rabbit, My Dog             Caught It

Three Thin Dimes

Tom & Jerry Rag

Tom Bigby Waltz

Tom Dooley   

Too Young to Marry

Train 45

Turkey in the Straw

Twenty Eighth Of January

Twinkle Little Star

Uncle Joe

Up Jumped the Devil

Wagoner

Wait for the Wagon

Waiting for Nancy

Walking In My Sleep

Walking In The Parlor

Waltzing Matilda

Washington's March

Waterbound

Way Down the Old Plank Road

Waynesburgh(boro)

Ways Of The World

Weeping Willow

Western Country      

Westfork Girls

Westphalia Waltz

When the Roll is Called Up             Yonder  

When the Saints Go             Marching In  

When You and I were Young  Maggie

Where the Soul Never Dies

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Whistlin’ Rufus 

Whoa Mule

Wind & Rain (Two Sisters)

Wild Bill Jones

Wild Hog in the Woods

Wild Horse / Stoney Point

Wildwood Flower 

Will the Circle Be             Unbroken?

Woodchopper's Reel

Worried Man Blues

Wreck of Old 97

Yankee Doodle

Year of Jubalo/Kingdom             Coming          

Yellow Barber

Yellow Eyed Cat

Yellow Rose Of Texas

You Ain’t Talking to Me

You Are My Sunshine

Way Down the Old Plank Road