Category:American folk songs

• Bluegrass songs (7 C, 15 P)
• Child Ballads (257 P)
• Songs of the American Civil War (1 C, 80 P)

B

• Joan Baez songs (70 P)
• Jackson Browne songs (20 P)
• Jimmy Buffett songs (26 P)

C

• Glen Campbell songs (108 P)
• Kim Carnes songs (16 P)
• Carter Family songs (6 P)
• Tracy Chapman songs (5 P)
• Judy Collins songs (12 P)
• Jim Croce songs (11 P)

D

• Bob Dylan songs (207 P)

G

• Patty Griffin songs (2 P)
• Woody Guthrie songs (21 P)

H

• Tim Hardin songs (6 P)

I

• Burl Ives songs (63 P)

K

• The Kingston Trio songs (29 P)

M

• Aimee Mann songs (4 P)

O

• Phil Ochs songs (5 P)
• Odetta songs (8 P)

P

• John Prine songs (5 P)

R

• Tex Ritter songs (7 P)

S

• Pete Seeger songs (20 P)
• Carly Simon songs (16 P)
• Regina Spektor songs (9 P)

W

• Tom Waits songs (22 P)
• Hank Williams songs (16 P)

*

• Songs of the Underground Railroad

5

• 500 Miles

9

• 99 Bottles of Beer

A

• All My Trials
• All the Pretty Little Horses
• American Life (song)
• The Arkansas Traveler (song)
• Aura Lea

B

• Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
• Bald Headed Woman
• The Ballad of Casey Jones
• The Ballad of Davy Crockett
• Bang Bang Lulu
• Banks of the Ohio
• Barbara Allen (song)
• Barnacle Bill the Sailor
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit
• William Bernard (sailor)
• The Big Rock Candy Mountains
• Billy Boy
• Birmingham Jail
• Black and White (Pete Seeger song)
• Black Betty
• Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
• The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
• Blowin' in the Wind
• Boundin'
• Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson song)
• Buffalo Gals

C

• Camptown Races
• Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)
• Careless Love
• The Cat Came Back
• Chicken Reel
• Child Ballads
• Christmas in the Trenches
• Cindy (folk song)
• City of New Orleans (song)
• Cluck Old Hen
• Coal Black Rose
• Collide (Howie Day song)
• Comet (song)
• Cotton Fields
• Cotton-Eyed Joe
• The Cuckoo (song)

D

• Dark Lady (song)
• Darlin' Cory
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• Dese Bones G'wine Rise Again
• The Devil's Dream
• Dink's Song
• Dixie (song)
• The Dodger Song
• Down in the Valley (folk song)
• Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
• Driver 8
• Dry Bones (folk song)
• The Dutchman

F

• Found a Peanut
• The Fox (folk song)
• Frankie and Johnny (song)
• Frog Went a-Courting
• From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
• The Frozen Logger

G

• Gentle Annie (song)
• Git Along, Little Dogies
• Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down)
• God's Gonna Cut You Down
• Goober Peas
• Good Old Mountain Dew
• Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
• Goodnight, Irene
• Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts
• Grey Goose (song)

H

• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
• Happy Birthday to You
• Hard Tack Come Again No More
• He Was a Friend of Mine
• John Henry (folklore)
• Hobo's Lullaby
• Home (Sheryl Crow song)
• Home on the Range
• The House of the Rising Sun
• How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

I

• I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
• I'm Alabama Bound
• I've Been Working on the Railroad
• Ida Red
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• In the Ghetto
• Iron Mountain Baby

J

• Jack of Diamonds (song)
• Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
• Jimmy Crack Corn
• John Brown's Body
• John Hardy (song)
• Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
• Jump Jim Crow
• Junco Partner
• Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)

K

• Katie Cruel
• Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
• Kisses Sweeter than Wine

L

• Lily of the West
• Lily the Pink (song)
• Listen to the Mocking Bird
• The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
• The Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim
• The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
• Long Black Veil
• Love Profusion
• Low Bridge (song)

M

• The Maid Freed from the Gallows
• Man of Constant Sorrow
• Marching Song of the First Arkansas
• Mary Don't You Weep
• Mary Mack
• Massachusetts (Arlo Guthrie song)
• Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
• Midnight Special (song)
• Miss Susie
• Molly and Tenbrooks
• The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga
• The Moonshiner

N

• Nelly Gray (song)
• No Depression in Heaven

O

• O Death
• Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow
• Oh My Darling, Clementine
• Oh Shenandoah
• Oh! Susanna
• Old Dan Tucker
• Old Folks at Home
• The Old Gray Mare
• Old Joe Clark
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Old Settler's Song (Acres of Clams)
• Old-Time Religion
• On the Trail of the Buffalo
• On Top of Old Smoky
• Orange Blossom Special (song)

P

• Paradise (John Prine song)
• Pay Me My Money Down
• Pearly Shells
• Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
• Philosophical Cowboy
• Plastic Jesus (song)
• Polly Wolly Doodle
• Pretty Little Dutch Girl

R

• Rattlesnake Mountain (song)
• Remember the Alamo (song)
• Reuben and Rachel
• Revenge (XXXTentacion song)
• Richmond Is a Hard Road to Travel
• The Road Goes on Forever (song)
• Rock Island Line
• Roll On, Columbia, Roll On
• Root Hog Or Die
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat

S

• Salty Dog Blues
• San Francisco Bay Blues
• Sea Lion Woman
• She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
• The Ship that Never Returned
• Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
• Shortnin' Bread
• Silver Dagger (song)
• Simple Gifts
• Sinner Man
• Skip to My Lou
• Smelly Cat
• Sonora's Death Row
• St. James Infirmary Blues
• Stagger Lee
• Stealin'
• Stella Ella Ola
• Streets of Laredo (song)
• Sugaree
• Suicide Is Painless
• Sweet Betsy from Pike
• Sweet Violets

T

• Take a Whiff on Me
• Take This Hammer
• Ten Little Indians
• There's a Hole in My Bucket
• This Is My Country
• This Land Is Your Land
• Ticklish Reuben
• The Titanic (song)
• Turkey in the Straw

U

• Uncle Sam's Farm

W

• Wabash Cannonball
• Wait for the Wagon
• Walk Right In
• Warning (Green Day song)
• Waterboy (song)
• The Wayfaring Stranger (song)
• We Shall Overcome
• The Wheels on the Bus