List of Leadbelly songs

The following is a partial list of songs performed by Lead Belly. Lead Belly, born Huddie Ledbetter, was an American folk and blues musician active in the 1930s and 1940s.

*"Ain't Goin Down the Well No More"
*"Ain't Gonna Drink No More"
*"Ain't Gonna Study War No More"
*"Ain't It a Shame"
*"Alabama Bound"
*"Alberta"
*"Amazing Grace"
*"Backslider, Fare Thee Well"
*"Baby Don't You Love Me No More"
*"Backwater Blues"
*"Becky Dean"
*"Big Fat Woman"
*"Birmingham Jail"
*"Black Betty"
*"Blind Lemon Blues"
*"Blue Tail Fly"
*"Blues Around New York"
*"The Boll Weevil"
*"Borrow Love & Go"
*"Bottle Up and Go"
*"The Bourgeois Blues"
*"Bring Me Little Water Silvy" (see "Sylvie")
*"Careless Love"
*"C.C. Rider"
*"Cotton Fields"
*"Death Letter Blues" (Parts 1&2)
*"Dance Calls"
*"Dekalb Blues"
*"Don't Lie Buddy" (with Josh White)
*"Down in the Valley to Pray"
*"Easy Rider"
*"Ella Speed"
*"Fannin Street"
*"Fiddlers Dram"
*"Frankie and Albert" (trad.)
*"The Gallows Pole"
*"Get Up in the Mornin'"
*"Git on Board"
*"Go Down Old Hannah"
*"Good Morning Blues"
*"Governor O.K. Allen"
*"Governor Pat Neff"
*"Green Corn"
*"Grey Goose"
*"Good Good Good"
*"Goodnight Irene"
*"Gwine Dig a Hole to Put Devil In"
*"The Hindenburg Disaster" (Parts 1&2)
*"How Long, How Long Blues" (with Sonny Terry)
*"Howard Hughes"
*"If It Wasn't for Dicky"
*"I'm on My Last Go Round"
*"I'm Sorry, Mama"
*"In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)"
*"Jean Harlow"
*"John Hardy"
*"John Henry"
*"Join the Band"
*"Julie Ann Johnson"
*"Keep Your Hands Off Her"
*"Leaving Blues"
*"Let It Shine on Me"
*"Line Em"
*"Looky Looky Yonder"
*"Medicine Man"
*"Mother's Blues"
*"The Midnight Special"
*"Mr. Hitler"
*"Must I Be Carried into the Sky"
*"New York City"
*"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
*"Noted (No Good) Rider"
*"Oh, Something on My Mind"
*"Old Rattler"
*"Old Time Religion"
*"On a Christmas Day"
*"On a Monday"
*"Outshine the Sun"
*"Packing Trunk Blues"
*"Pick a Bale of Cotton"
*"Poor Howard"
*"Prayer"
*"Pretty Flowers in My Backyard"
*"Red River"
*"Ride On"
*"Roberta"
*"Rock Island Line"
*"The Roosevelt Song"
*"Run Sinners"
*"Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On"
*"The Scottsboro Boys"
*"Skip to My Lou"
*"Stand Your Test in Judgement"
*"Sweet Mary Blues"
*"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
*"Sylvie" ("Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie") ["Sylvie" was written by Ledbetter with "Paul Campbell", which according to attribution on the 1959 album "Belafonte at Carnegie Hall" was a collective pen name of The Weavers.]
*"Take a Whiff on Me"
*"Take This Hammer"
*"TB Blues"
*"Tell Me Baby"
*"They Hung Him on a Cross"
*"The Titanic"
*"Turn Your Radio On"
*"Western Plain"
*"When I Was a Cowboy"
*"When the Boys Were Out on the Western Plains"
*"When the Train Comes Along"
*"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" ("Black Girl", "In the Pines")
*"Whoa Back Buck"
*"Yellow Gal"
*"Yellow Womans Doorbells"
*"You Can't Lose-A Me Cholly"
*"You Don't Know My Mind"
*"You Must Have That Religion, Halleloo"

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