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Lone Hand Western
Cowboy songs and romanticized history of the Old West can be found at the site of this performing group. Dozens of classics like Old Paint, Billy the Kid, Streets of Laredo. Separate listing for Civil War songs.

Lyrics Robot - Song Lyric Search Engine
A unique search engine that allows you to search for lyrics by song title - there's also an index of thousands of artists/bands, mostly non-folk.

Lyrics World
Extensive collection - including Top 40 hits from 1930 on, so it's great for those oldies your parents used to sing to you when you were young. OK, grandparents.

Public Domain Music
A resource to help people locate public domain songs unhindered by copyright hassles or expenses. Lots of useful info, including a database of 3000 songs. Caveat: Titles only - no lyrics here.

Public Domain Music Best of the Net
Hundreds of songs that are either anonymous (folk songs) or are in the public domain: blues, spirituals, popular songs from 3 centuries arr. by genre & author. A treasure trove of lyrics & MIDI file melodies.

Sea Shanties
A fine collection of shanty lyrics - traditional and modern - can be found here.

Sing Out!
All songs printed in the past 47 years are listed by title. You can either buy the back issue or send $3 for a photocopy. Thousands of great songs. Also, their online catalogue of song books includes early reprints and 'Rise Up Singing.'

Single Act's Chords & Lyrics - Folk
This interesting site has collections of lyrics - and some chords by a few dozen of the more popular acoustic artists, mainly 70s oriented. The folk collection seems to be the only section working.

Songs of and about Elizabethan Times
A treasury of 16th century lyrics - many bawdy or drinking songs.

Steele, Gregory
This fansite has quite a bit of stuff for Cliff Eberhardt, John Gorka, Dan Fogelberg, Lucy Kaplansky, and others. Good taste.

Tab Robot - Guitar Tab Search Engine
Search engine/robot finds tabs for songs - seems to search many large on-line tab collections. And lo and behold, it works!

Temple of Tabs
Lyrics and chords for hundreds of artists are archived here. Most are pop and rock, but lots of folk and folk rock too.

Tunes.com
Lots of albums and sound clips.

Union Songs Best of the Net
Over 100 labor classics - from traditional ballads to contemporary songwriters. Many gems. Includes lyrics and MIDI version of melody for each song. A gold mine from Australia's Mark Gregory.

Whole Note - Online Guitar Community
Site invites membership, but you don't have to sign up to use the search engine here for guitar tabs salvaged from OLGA (OnLine Guitar Archive). Hundreds of artists' tabs.

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