List of songs recorded by Lead Belly

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.

• "4, 5 & 9"
• "Abraham Lincoln"
• "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 to Go Fishin' on a Sunday"
• "Alabama Bound"
• "Alberta"
• "Amazing Grace"
• "Army Life" (see "I Don't Want No More of Army Life")
• "Backslider, Fare Thee Well"
• "Baby don't you Love me No More"
• "Backwater Blues"
• "Becky Dean"
• "Big Fat Woman"
• "Birmingham Jail"
• "Black Betty"
• "Black Girl" (trad.) (see "In the Pines")
• "Black Snake Moan"
• "Blind Lemon Blues"
• "the Blood Done Signed my Names (ain't you Glad)"
• "Blue Tail Fly"
• "Blues Around New York"
• "The Boll Weevil"
• "Bottle Up and Go" ( "Borrow Love and Go")
• "The Bourgeois Blues"
• "Bring a Little Water, Silvy" (with Martha Ledbetter)
• "Bull Cow"
• "Careless Love"
• "C.C. Rider"
• "Corn Bread Rough"
• "Cotton Fields"
• "Death Letter Blues" (parts 1&2)
• "Daddy, I'm Coming Back to You" (tribute to Jimmie Rodgers)
• "Dance Calls"
• "Dekalb Blues"
• "Diggin' my Potatoes"
• "Don't Lie Buddy" (with Josh White)
• "Don't you Love your Daddy No More?" (trad.)
• "Down in the Valley to Pray"
• "Duncan and Brady"
• "Easy Rider"
• "Ella Speed"
• "Every Time I Feel the Spirit"
• "Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes' Town)"
• "Fiddlers Dram"
• "Fort Worth and Dallas Blues"
• "Four Day Worry Blues"
• "Frankie and Albert" (trad.)
• "The Gallows Pole"
• "Get Up in the Mornin
• "Git on Board"
• "Go Down Old Hannah"
• "Good Good Good"
• "Good Morning Blues"
• "Goodnight Irene"
• "Governor O.K. Allen"
• "Governor Pat Neff"
• "Green Corn"
• "Grey Goose"
• "Gwine Dig a Hole to Put Devil In"
• "The Hindenburg Disaster" (parts 1 & 2)
• "Ha Ha This A-Way"
• "Ham an' Eggs"
• "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word" (trad.)
• "Heaeh Mountain Stomp"
• "Hitler Song"
• "House of The Rising Sun"
• "How Long, How Long Blues" (with Sonny Terry)
• "Howard Hughes"
• "If It Wasn't for Dicky"
• "I Don't Want No More of Army Life"
• "If You Want To Do Your Part"
• "I'll be down on the last Bread Wagon"
• "I'm Alone Because I Love You"
• "I'm on My Last Go Round"
• "I'm Sorry, Mama"
• "In the Pines" (trad.)
• "In dem Hot Summer Days"
• "It's Tight Like That"
• "In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)" (trad.)
• "Jean Harlow"
• "Jim Crow Blues"
• "John Hardy"
• "John Henry"
• "Join the Band"
• "Julie Ann Johnson"

• "Kansas City Papa"
• "Keep your Hands Off Her"
• "Laura"
• "Leaving Blues (When you are smiling)"
• "Let It Shine on Me" (trad.)
• "Line Em"
• "Lining Track" (trad.)
• "Little Children's Blues"
• "Little Sally Walker"
• "Looky Looky Yonder"
• "Match Box Blues"
• "Medicine Man"
• "Meeting at the Building"
• "Midnight Special" (trad.)
• "Mister Tom Hughes's Town"
• "Moanin
• "Mother's Blues"
• "Mr. Hitler"
• "Must I Be Carried into the Sky"
• “My Baby Quit Me”
• "National Defense Blues"
• "New York City"
• "New Black Snake Moan"
• "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
• "Noted (No Good) Rider"
• "Oh, Something on My Mind"
• "Old Man"
• "Old Rattler"
• "(Old) Stewball"
• "Old Time Religion"
• "On a Christmas Day"
• "On a Monday"
• "Out On the Western Plains" (a.k.a. "Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea")
• "Outshine the Sun"
• "Outskirts of Town"
• "Ox Drivin’ Blues"
• "Packing Trunk Blues"
• "Pig Meat" (with Sonny Terry - Harmonica)
• "Pig Meat Papa"
• "Pick a Bale of Cotton" (trad.)
• "Poor Howard"
• "Prayer"
• "Pretty Flowers in My Backyard" (a.k.a. "Pretty Flower in Your Backyard")
• "The Red Cross Store Blues"
• "Red River"
• "Relax Your Mind"
• "Ride On"
• "Roberta" (parts 1 & 2)
• "Rock Island Line"
• "the Roosevelt Song"
• "Run Sinners"
• "Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On"
• "Salty Dog"
• "the Scottsboro Boys"
• "Shorty George"
• "Silver City Bound"
• "Skip to My Lou"
• "Stand Your Test in Judgement"
• "Stewball"
• "Sweet Mary Blues (Governor Pat Neff)"
• "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (trad.)
• "Sylvie"
• "Take a Whiff on Me"
• "Take This Hammer"
• "TB Blues"
• "Tell me Baby"
• "They Hung Him on a Cross" (see "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word")
• "The Titanic"
• "There's a Man Goin' around Takin' Names"
• "Turn your Radio On"
• "We Shall Be Free" (with Woody Guthrie)"
• "We Shall Walk Thru the Valley"
• "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" (trad.) (see "In the Pines")
• "Whoa Back Buck"
• "Yellow Gal"
• "Yellow Women's Doorbells" (see "On a Monday")
• "You Can't Lose-A Me Cholly"
• "You Don't Miss Your Water"
• "You Don't Know My Mind"
• "You Must Have that Religion, Halleloo"

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