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Always Run on the Net - Music, albums and songs: The lyrics for many of your favorite music artists are here.
Anti-war Songs
Best of Broadside 1962–1988 - Some lyrics (but with many missing) to songs appearing on this historic 5CD
offering.
Bluegrass Lyrics.com - Lyrics for traditional bluegrass and old-time music.
Bluegrass Messengers: Bluegrass Lyrics - An ongoing collection of bluegrass and bluegrass related lyrics.
Contemplator's Website, The - A great site with historical information and lyrics for all the Child Ballads, as well as many other Anglo-American folk genres, including:
Cowboy Lyrics
Digital Dream Door - Music lists of music in all fields, plus lyrics and other information on artists.
English and Popular Ballads by Francis James Child [1882-1898] - Francis James Child (Harvard's first professor of English) was a specialist in early English language and literature and wrote and lectured on, for example, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Child is best known, though, for his five-volume edition of 305 distinct English and Scottish ballads and their textual variants which he published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898).
Fiddler's Companion, The - An index with more than 30,000 entries to tunes from Celtic, British and American traditions. Includes both print and recorded sources. It is the sole work of the Andrew Kuntz and identified contributors and sources.
Folk Music Index -
The recordings indexed here generally have a major emphasis on tradition based material from both commercial and non-commercial performers, including a considerable amount of old-time fiddle and banjo tunes. Although most of the recordings included are vinyl LP's, many have been reissued in both cassette and CD format and out of print material can often be found in both public and university libraries by search in the world catalog.
Folkarchive.de -
These pages of (mostly) song lyrics owe their existence to an American Studies class taught by Dr. Heiner Bus at Johannes-Gutenberg- University, Mainz, Germany in the mid-1970s. Lyrics to songs are provided in alphabetical order at A-L and M-Z.
Harry's Blues Lyrics and Tabs Online - Dedicated to making blues lyrics and soundclips available for private study, scholarship or research.
Heptune Classical Jazz and Blues Lyrics -
Jazz, blues, and other popular American music lyrics transcribed from recordings from the first half of the 20th century.
Different artists sing the songs differently. The same artist sings the song differently in different recordings. This site provides alternative lyrics to songs with different versions as they continue to add to their transcriptions overf time.
Industrial Workers of the World “Little Red Songbook" and here
International Lyrics Playground -
Songs from Europe, North America and around the world pre-1985.
International Lyrics Database -
Lyrics and text from all over the world and from a large selection of musicians.
Labor Sings -
Songs have played a key role in the Labor Movement and probably stand as the most well known form of labor art.
From Labor Arts.
Let's Sing It - Music community providing the largest lyrics archive on the web.Lied and Art Song Test Page -
Lyric Find - LyricFind has licensed content from nearly 2,000 music publishers and can display the lyrics to over a million tracks, a number that is constantly growing.
Lyrics.com
Lyrics.info
LyricWiki - To access non-editable proprietary Gracenote lyrics from LyricWiki, among the best available, follow this convention: <http://lyrics.wikia.com/Gracenote:Marvin_Gaye>. Use Ctrl-A and copy all, then paste into iTunes lyrics filed or Notepad and cleanup.
For community-edited LyricWiki lyrics, follow the convention: <http://lyrics.wikia.com/Marvin_Gaye>. Also, see Advanced Search.
Mudcat Cafe -
A collection of lyrics and digitized music files for more than 8000 folk songs. Both keyword searching and title browsing is possible.
Also visit the related Digital Tradition Folk Music Database which includes makes GIFs or PostScript scores from tunes found in Mudcat's database available. You can also download a copy of the Digital Tradition database to your computer here. Extensive links browse and search page.
Sing365 -
Full text phrase searchable database with over 400,000 lyrics.
Socialist Song Book -
Teploff's Music Collection - Over 3,000 author's biographies, 5,500 texts of of songs, and 13,500 links to internet resources about separate authors. Also see links to internet musical resources with comments.
Todd's Lyrics and Links - Todd Peaches artist lyrics pages.
Top 40db Music Service -
"The same wrong lyrics can be found on many websites. They simply steal lyrics from each other, assuming them correct. We strive for perfection; we transcribe lyrics ourselves. Some artists have kindly submitted their own lyrics."
Traditional Music Library - A large archive of traditional, folk & old music - song-books with lyrics & chords, tune-books, sheet-music, scores, old songs, midi backing tracks, tabs, music lessons & theory, learn to play guides for various instruments, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.
The traditional and folk music here is categorised into various sections such as: Bluegrass, Old-time, Old Country music, Irish, Scottish, Christian music, Gospel, Worship, Hymns, Ira D Sanky, Christmas Music, Celtic, Ballads, Blues, Jazz, Session Tunes, Carter Family, Childrens Songs etc. Tablature collections for Guitar & mandolin, Singing lessons, Song writing, Chord Charts for piano, guitar, mandolin & banjo. Downloadable PDF scores to print sheet music and MIDI backing tracks for many of the songs. A complete library of 60000+ pages for musicians, bands, music teachers, music students or plain lovers of Real Music as it used to be.
TuneWiki -
With the largest legally-licensed lyrics database in the world, TuneWiki also makes music social – with community wiki-features for lyric and translation updates, our users can help add, translate or time the lyrics to their favorite songs.
Union 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.
