Good collection of lyrics, even includes some traditional songs.

about 400 songs sang by woody & bobby & sonny & leadbelly ... i still sing it

Online collection of lyrics, book transcripts, and whatnot. Includes the complete text of two Lomax books.

Mostly and SCA Sheet Music & Lyrics site, but has Medieval/Ren Sheet Music & Lyrics as well as a bunch of Traditional Sheet Music & Lyrics

These pages present images of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society's Axon Ballad collection, named after their collector, G.R. Axon. The collection consists of 132 sheets containing 280 ballads.

Not for the prudish
A lot of parodies as well as links to other sites

The NEW Site! Significantly updated with over 500 themes from the U.S. and around the world. All the most popular and many, many obscure lyrics and voice-overs. Plus the lyrics to theme songs you never knew had lyrics (Hogan's Heroes, I Dream of Jeanie, Bewitched). Hosted by Mudcat regular Blackcatter. (link updated April 2009)

Over 1160 Bluegrass & Old Timey songs. (link updated April 2009)

A growing collection of lyrics - many songs have several versions. Seem to be good, well-documented transcriptions.

Lyrics from Ireland, Scotland, Great Britain as well Gaelic lyrics. Information about Irish Folk, music, musicians, Ireland, the Celts and much more.

Large collection of Carter Family lyrics

Good source of Irish lyrics. (link updated April 2009)

Song, lyrics and poetics from the heart and mind, dedicated to the love of being aware.

Cowpie is to Country what the Digital Tradition is to folk. Cowpie (COuntry and Western Pickers of the IntErnet) is a vast collection of Country lyrics.

A large collection of German song lyrics, with MIDI tunes.

song lyrics, music, notes, discography, artwork

The ezFolk site is one of the most popular folk music resources on the Internet. Here you will find free MP3 hosting for folk and acoustic musicians, free tablature for guitar, banjo, ukulele, and harmonica, as well as over 3000 links to other web resources. In addition you will find some of the best prices anywhere on instruments, books, CDs, DVDs, and more!

Mostly singer-songwriter lyrics. Also a very good collection of folk links. the FolkBook site has been absorbed into FolkLib.net.

Lots of versions, and lots of verses.
(link updated April 2009)

Some truly obnoxious songs.

Scans of some 350 broadsides. Additional broadsides information at http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/ballads/index.html

Has all, or nearly all, of the lyrics to songs Hank Snow has recorded. (link updated April 2009)

formerly the Hash House Harrier Dirty Songbook. Need I say more?
-Joe Offer-

A large, Australia-based collection of Hebrew songs, along with Yiddish and Ladino lyrics.

Lyrics with tunes (midi files). Bawdy Broadsides, Songs of Newman Levy, Others (not yet classified). (link updated April 2009)

Available on CD-ROM - $100 for personal use

This once was once the best place to look for popular song lyrics, but it has been severely crippled by the copyright cops. Well, at least it's back online.
It has a fulltext search feature, so you can search if you only know a fragment of the song. You can't copy the lyrics you find. (Joe Offer)

A really amazing collection of links to lyrics of all sorts and all countries.

And of course the Digital Tradition is one of the links. But, no, the eponynmous Joe isn't Joe Offer, he's called Joe Sharp - and he promises:"If you have been unable to locate the lyrics you're looking for, email me and I will try to find the lyrics for you. I will email you back within 72 hours.")

A huge collection of jumprope chants. Once at University of West Florida, Pensacola; now at Mudcat with permission from the originator. Prior URL: http://www.cs.uwf.edu/~skulikow/jrope3/jumprope.htm

Approximately 3,300 song broadsides are being preserved, scanned, and derivative images made.

Site is devoted to non-professional(amateur)Russian translations of folksongs poetry & poetry of such famouse performers as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Guthrie and so on. Project basicly presents Marat Vorontsov's Brittish & American folk lyrics translations but also some from Yiddish (jewish) folklor. In the nearest future the section of Russian folkmusic will be available.

An extensive collection of 19th Century songbooks, with lyrics transcribed. Sound recordings available for many songs.

A large archive of song lyrics. [you may have to search archive.org for the lyrics, now that the original Website is dead]

Play acoustic guitar and sing along to the well known folk songs of the 60's and 70's. To artists like Bob Dylan, Ralph McTell, Tom Paxton and many more. Try it, there may be some songs you thought you'd forgotten.

A lot of lyrics from Maddys records inc Silly Sisters

This site contains lyrics, chords, tabs and specialized instruction on: general learning, practice strategy, rhythm, modes, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and bass.

My Lyrics Central has a comprehensive all singers list of music artists from genres of modern rock, rap and hip hop music, love songs, r & b and soul, and including the most well-celebrated movie soundtracks. Also offers the latest news, hottest lyrics, and profiles of your favorite music artists.

Great number of lyrics of traditional and contemporary folksongs in English, with added information for many of them

A large collection of lyrics and other information.

This seems to be a relatively stable new home for OLGA, which was on the lam from the copyright cops for a while. Good place for lyrics, chords, and tab - mostly pop & rock songs. You'll have to look a little harder for the lyrics, but they're available.

This site has an easy to use index of titles and first lines of many Civil War song lyrics and poems. You will hear a midi of Jay Ungar's modern composition, "Ashokan Farewell", when you log on. There is a nice explanation of it at the bottom of the main page. Very nice site, easy to use and well laid out. (Link updated April, 2009)

A good collection of the "standards" from the 30's to the 50's. (Joe Offer)

two sections:

• Lieder and Song Texts
• Classical MIDI with words

This entry to the site gives menus/indices for the songs by Country, Author, Category. Some of these are Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Christmas Songs, Hymns, Isaac Watts, Sea Songs, and many others.

A nice collection of rounds, with notation and MIDI files.

A nice selection of traditional German songs.

Nice collection of activist songs from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.

"SongMeanings is more than just a site with a bunch of lyrics, we're a community. You can comment on any song, add what you think the song is about, or what it means to you. In addition, you can submit your own lyrics. Our goal is to create the world's largest and most functional lyric site, period. We also have a community aspect with user profiles, message boards and more."

This site is aiming to gather together and provide links to songs, old and new, which relate to British and Irish waterways. Lyrics are given with tunes and/or chords where possible. Contributions of missing tunes/chords would be most welcome. Small snippets of recordings are included to give a better idea of the songs' tunes and melodies. The recordings are mp3, mono, 128kbps files which will open for use by your usual media player in a new window. It should therefore be possible to listen to the song whilst looking at the words or music.

MP3's MIDIs and lyrics for 89 songs from the Spanish Civil War. For a newer Website on the same subject, see http://www.altavozdelfrente.tk/

This appears to be a complete collection of Foster's songs.

A nice collection of S.C. Foster lyrics, with MIDI files.

Find lyrics and chords for folk songs, discover their origins and listen to recordings of them. And you can also contribute to the archive yourself.

A great place to find chords for songs. Huge collection, well-indexed.

If you're looking for folk lyrics, check our Digital Tradition database here at Mudcat. The Lyrics Library will lead you to lots of other lyrics sites. This site does have some nasty popups, so beware.

on-line lyrics sorted by author (Anonymus wrote a lot of good songs) or time or title or first line

Songs and other folklore from the Vietnam War.

An amazing collection of broadsides and transcriptions, along with background information.

An outstanding collection of "old standards" lyrics. (Joe Offer)

A journey through Irish music and history. Large and well-documented collection of lyrics to Irish songs.

A heap of songs from the Ulster / Orange /Unionist /Loyalist traditions.

Songs, games, skits, and other camp resources - a wonderful collection.

At long last, the official Woody Guthrie Website has LYRICS!!!

A database of Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew songs. It doesn't have a Yiddish version of "Banks of the Ohio" (yet), but even Charlie Baum should love this site.

Perhaps the earliest folk site on the web (soon be in 15th year) Music notation, notes to each song, MIDI and mp3, lots of links, articles etc

SKS collection(s) of Finnish Folk Tunes (circa 9000 'pieces' of notation and/or lyrics)(link updated April 2009)

Search by Title or Keyword for Sheet Music.The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra.

More than a thousand song lyrics, MIDI files, guitar tabs and music scores with a site search engine, individual artist listings, and a discussion forum with only one theme: Newfoundland and Labrador music.

Old Favourites and New Contemporary Scottish Sheet Music All Priced at Pennies a Page. Listen, View and Download Direct to your Printer."

More than 620 songs and poems, over 250 Authors Call them rebel songs, slave songs, songs of freedom, work songs, songs of dissent, songs of struggle, protest songs, liberation songs, labour songs, labor songs, workers songs, industrial folk songs, environmental songs, songs of equality, peace songs. For over two centuries working people across the world have built trade unions. This site documents the songs and poems that they made in the process, union songs. It includes songs and poems that are being written today, as the process of union building continues all around the world.

Wede variety of sheet music, mostly classical. Also a good source for Gregorian chant.

converts ABC to MIDI and PDF sheetmusic.

A large collection of sheet music at the Mississippi State University Library, available in easily-printed PDF format.

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is comprised of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy Collection are indexed on this site, and images of the cover and music are available for pieces of music more than 75 years old. (Joe Offer)

Many links to sites which have sheet music..(gifs, usually), as well as other things. Also, links to places to get software to convert.(ABC...etc.) This is a LARGE list of all styles of music. If you play fiddle, it is Heaven.

Sheet Music and Music Book Publications with worldwide mail order service for Musicians, Teachers and Eamination Music for Students.

A sheet music collection from the Library of Congress.

A free sheet music resource covering many styles. Music in Gif,ABC and midi formats also you can print your own manuscript paper.

Sheet Music and Music Book Publications with worldwide mail order service for Musicians, Teachers and Eamination Music for Students.