List of Leadbelly songs

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The following is a list of songs performed by Huddie Ledbetter:

For more information, see Huddie Ledbetter.


Leadbelly Playing his 12 string guitar.
Leadbelly Playing his 12 string guitar.
  • "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"
  • "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" (written by Huddie Ledbetter with "Paul Campbell," according to attribution on Harry Belafonte's 1959 album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall; Paul Campbell was a collective pen name[1] of The Weavers; song also known as "Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie")
  • "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"

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wikipedia article, Kisses Sweeter than Wine (song)