Although this site is primarily focused on bluegrass, there are a few early country acts that were such major contributors to the bluegrass repetoire that it seems appropriate to have at least a sampling of their songs. The Carter Family, for certain, are a major source for bluegrass material, as are Hank Williams and many others. We’ll continue to add to this section as time permits, though of course there are other good resources available on the web as well.
- A Distant Land To Roam
- A Few Old Memories
- A Flower Blooming in the Wildwood
- Alabama Waltz
- All My Ex’s Live In Texas
- Always Late With Your Kisses
- Amber Tresses Tied In Blue
- Anchored In Love
- Another Day
- Answer To Weeping Willow
- Are You From Dixie
- Are You Lonesome Tonight
- Away Out On The Saint Sabbath
- Baby We’re Really In Love
- Back In The Saddle Again
- Bear Creek Blues
- Beautiful Home
- Beautiful Isle O’Er The Sea
- Behind Those Stone Walls
- Big Midnight Special
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Billy The Kid
- Birds Were Singing Of You, The
- Black Jack Davey
- Blackie’s Gunman
- Blue Eyed Boston Boy
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Blue Railroad Train
- Blue Yodel #4
- Blue Yodel Number Three
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- Bonnie Blue Eyes
- Bravest Cowboy
- Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy
- Bring Back My Blue-Eyed Boy To Me
- Broken Down Tramp
- Brown’s Ferry Blues
- Buddies In The Saddle
- Buffalo Gals
- Bully Of The Town
- Bummin’ An Old Freight Train
- By The Touch Of Her Hand
- California Blues
- California Cotton Fields
- Cannonball Blues
- Cannonball, The
- Careless Love
- Carter’s Blues
- Casey Jones
- Charlie And Nellie
- Charming Beauty Bright
- Chattanooga Dog
- Chewing Gum
- Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time In Cheatham County
- Christmas Time Is Coming
- Church In The Wildwood, The
- City Lights
- Coal Miner’s Blues
- Cold Cold Heart
- Corina Corina
- Cowboy Jack
- Cowboy’s Wild Song To His Herd
- Cuban Soldier
- Custom Made Woman Blues
- Cyclone Of Rye Cove
- Danville Girl
- Dark And Stormy Weather
- Dark As A Dungeon
- Dark Haired True Lover
- Darling Daisies
- Darling Nellie Across The Sea
- Dear Companion
- Deep Water
- Diamonds In The Rough
- Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby
- Distant Land To Roam
- Don’t Bother To Cry
- Don’t Fence Me In
- Don’t Forget Me Little Darling
- Don’t Forget This Song
- Don’t Neglect the Rose
- Don’t Worry ’bout the Mule, Just Load the Wagon
- Don’t You See That Train
- Down Among The Budded Roses
- Down At The End Of Memory Lane
- Down In The Valley
- Dying Mother, The
- Dying Soldier, The
- Engine 143
- Evening Bells Are Ringing
- Faded Coat Of Blue
- Faded Flowers
- Faded Love
- Farewell Nellie
- Farewell, Nellie
- Fate Of Dewey Lee, The
- Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
- Flame in my Heart
- Foggy River
- Fond Affection
- Forsaken Love
- Freigh Train
- Fugitive’s Lament
- Funny When You Feel That Way
- Gathering Flowers From The Hillside
- Girl On The Greenbriar Shore
- Give Him One More As He Goes
- Give Me The Roses While I Live
- Give Me Your Love And I’ll Give You Mine
- Glory To The Lamb
- God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
- Going to Write Me a Letter
- Gold Watch And Chain
- Golden Rocket
- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
- Goodbye To The Plains
- Gospel Ship
- Grave On The Green Hillside
- Half As Much
- Happiest Days Of All, The
- Happy In Prison
- Happy Or Lonesome
- Happy Sunny Side Of Life, The
- Hard Ain’t It Hard
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Hard Traveling
- He Never Came Back
- He Took White Roses From Her Hair
- He Will Set Your Fields On Fire
- Heart That Was Broken For Me, The
- Heaven’s Radio
- Hello Central, Give Me Heaven
- Hello Stranger
- Hey Hey Bartender
- High On A Mountain
- Hills of Home
- Hobo Bill’s Last Ride
- Hold Fast To The Right
- Home By The Sea
- Home In Tennessee
- Honey In The Rock
- Hot Corn, Cold Corn
- Hush Little Baby
- I Can’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
- I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
- I Don’t Love Nobody
- I Feel Better Now
- I Found You Among The Roses
- I Have An Aged Mother
- I Have No One To Love Me
- I Loved This Better Than You Knew
- I Never Loved But One
- I Never Will Marry
- I Saw The Light
- I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name
- I Wouldn’t Mind Dying
- I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
- I’ll Be Home Someday
- I’ll Break Out Again Tonight
- I’ll Never Forsake You
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
- I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
- If One Won’t The Other Will
- In A Little Village Churchyard
- In The Jailhouse Now
- In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain
- In The Shadow Of The Pines
- In The Valley Of The Shenandoah
- Jealous Hearted Me
- Jim Blake’s Message
- John Hardy
- Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel
- Just a Rose Will Do
- Just Ain’t
- Just One Teardrop
- Katie Dear
- Kentucky Mountain
- Kissing Is Crime
- Kitty Waltz
- Lamplighting Time In The Valley
- Last Move For Me, The
- Lay My Head Beneath The Rose
- Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
- Let’s Be Lovers Again
- Little Black Train, The
- Little Darling Pal Of Mine
- Little Girl That Played Upon My Knee, The
- Little Gypsy Girl, The
- Little Log Cabin By The Sea
- Little Log Hut In The Lane
- Little Moses
- Little Poplar Log House On The Hill
- Lonesome For You
- Lonesome For You Darling
- Lonesome Homesick Blues
- Lonesome Old Homesick Blues
- Lonesome Pine Special
- Lonesome Valley
- Lonesome Without You – Delmore Brothers
- Long Long Road to Travel Alone
- Longing For Old Virginia
- Look Away From The Cross
- Look How This World Has Made A Change
- Lord I’m In Your Care
- Love And Wealth
- Lover’s Farewell
- Lover’s Lane
- Lulu Walls
- Making Plans
- Mama Tried
- Mansion On The Hill
- March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away
- May You Never Be Alone
- Meeting In The Air
- Methodist Pie
- Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia
- Midnight Train
- Motherless Children
- Mountains Of Tennessee, The
- My Better Years
- My Clinch Mountain Home
- My Dixie Darling
- My Heart’s Tonight In Texas
- My Home Among The Hills
- My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountain
- My Honey Lou
- My Native Home
- My Old Cottage Home
- My Old Virginia Home
- My Texas Girl
- My Virginia Rose Is Blooming
- Nashville Blues
- Never Let The Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You
- Ninety and Nine
- No Ash Will Burn
- No Depression In Heaven
- No Hiding Place Down Here
- No More The Moon Shines On Lorena
- No One
- No Other’s Bride I’ll Be
- No Telephone In Heaven
- Oh Lonesome Me
- Oh Take Me Back
- Old Black Mountain Saturday Night
- Old Old House
- On A Hill Lone And Gray
- On My Way To Canaan’s Land
- On The Sea Of Galilee
- One Day I Will
- One Little Word
- Only Girl I Ever Cared About, The
- Only the Leading Role Will Do
- Out In The Cold World
- Over The Garden Wall
- Over Yonder in the Graveyard
- Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
- Picture On The Wall
- Poor Little Orphaned Boy
- Poor Orphan Child, The
- Precious Jewel
- Prisoner’s Farewell
- Radio Boogie
- Railroading On The Great Divide
- Ramblin Away
- Ramblin Man
- Rambling Boy
- Ramshackle Shack
- Rebel Soldier
- Reckless Motorman
- Red Sails In The Sunset
- Remember I Feel Lonesome Too
- Room In Heaven For Me
- Sad And Lonesome Day
- Sad Situation
- Sailor Boy
- Sailor On The Deep Blue Sea
- Saint Regis Girl
- San Antonio Rose
- Satan’s Jewel Crown
- Satisfied Mind
- School House On The Hill
- See That My Grave Is Kept Green
- She’s My Curly Headed Baby
- Sing Me a Song
- Single Girl
- Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
- Six Feet of Earth Makes Us All of One Size
- Six More Miles
- Some Old Day
- Someday You’ll Pay
- Something Got A Hold Of Me
- Southern Railroad Line
- Sow ‘Em On The Mountain
- Spirit Of Love Watches Over Me, The
- Stern Old Bachelor
- Sun Of The Soul, The
- Sunny Side Of Life
- Sunshine In The Shadows
- Sweet As The Flowers In Maytime
- Sweet Fern
- Sweet Heaven In My View
- Take Me Back To Tulsa
- Tell Me That You Love Me
- Texas Girl
- Thanks A Lot
- The Bramble And The Rose
- The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia
- The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier
- There’ll Be Joy, Joy, Joy
- There’ll Be No Distinction
- There’s No One Like Mother To Me
- There’s Someone Awaiting For Me
- They Call Her Mother
- This Is Heaven To Me
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Too Late To Walk The Floor
- Trouble In Mind
- Two Sweethearts
- Under Your Spell Again
- Wabash Cannonball
- Walking The King’s Highway
- Waves On The Sea
- Wayworn Traveler, The
- We Shall Rise
- We Will March Through The Streets Of The City
- Weary Blues From Waiting
- Weary Day
- Weary Prodigal Son
- Western Hobo, The
- When I Can Read My Titles Clear
- When I Stop Dreaming
- When I’m Gone
- When its Lamplighting Time in the Valley
- When Silver Threads Are Gold Again
- When The Evening Sun Goes Down
- When The Roses Come Again
- When The World’s On Fire
- Where Shall I Be
- Where The Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way
- Where the Wild Flowers Grow
- Where the Wild Wild Flowers Grow
- Where We’ll Never Grow Old
- Who’s That Knocking At My Window
- Why Do You Cry Little Darling
- Why There’s A Tear In My Eye
- Why You Been Gone So Long
- Wildwood Flower
- Will My Mother Know Me There
- Will The Roses Bloom Again
- Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven
- Will You Be Lonesome
- Willie Moore
- Winding Stream, The
- Wonderful City, The
- Wreck Of The C And O, The
- Wreck on the Highway
- You Are My Sunshine
- You Better Let That Liar Alone
- You Can’t Do Wrong And Get By
- You Denied Your Love
- You Done Me Wrong
- You Lead Me to the Wrong
- You Tied A Love Knot In My Heart
- You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way
- You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
- You’re Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down
- You’re Not Easy To Forget
- You’re Nothing More To Me
- You’ve Been Fooling Me Baby
- You’ve Been That Friend To Me
- You’ve Got To Righten That Wrong
- Young Freda Bolt
- Your Mother Still Prays For You Jack