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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)
  • "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" [1]
  • "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" (a.k.a. "Borrow Love and Go") [2]
  • "The Bourgeois Blues" [3][4]
  • "Bring a Little Water, Silvy" [5] (with Martha Ledbetter [6]) [7]
  • "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" [8][9] (tribute to Jimmie Rodgers)
  • "Dance Calls"
  • "Dekalb Blues" [10]
  • "Diggin' my Potatoes" [11]
  • "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" [12]
  • "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"[13]
  • "Frankie and Albert" (trad.)
  • "The Gallows Pole" [14]
  • "Get Up in the Mornin'"
  • "Git on Board"
  • "Go Down Old Hannah"
  • "Good Good Good"
  • "Good Morning Blues"
  • "Goodnight Irene"
  • "Governor O.K. Allen" [15]
  • "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" [1] (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" [16][17][18]
  • "If You Want To Do Your Part"
  • "I'm Alone Because I Love You"
  • "I'm on My Last Go Round"
  • "I'm Sorry, Mama"
  • "In the Pines" [19] (trad.)
  • "In dem Hot Summer Days"
  • "It's Tight Like That"
  • "In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)" [19] (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" [20] (trad.)
  • "Line Em"
  • "Lining Track" (trad.)
  • "Little Children's Blues"
  • "Little Sally Walker"
  • "Looky Looky Yonder" [21]
  • "Match Box Blues"
  • "Medicine Man"
  • "Meeting at the Building"
  • "Midnight Special" [22] (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"[13]
  • "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" [23]
  • "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[24] - Harmonica)[11]
  • "Pig Meat Papa"
  • "Pick a Bale of Cotton" (trad.)
  • "Poor Howard"
  • "Prayer"
  • "Pretty Flowers in My Backyard" [25][26] (a.k.a. "Pretty Flower in Your Backyard") [27][28]
  • "The Red Cross Store Blues"
  • "Red River"
  • "Relax Your Mind"
  • "Ride On"
  • "Roberta" (parts 1 & 2) [29]
  • "Rock Island Line" [30]
  • "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" [31]
  • "Take a Whiff on Me"
  • "Take This Hammer" [32][33]
  • "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"

References

  1. ^ a b "Leadbelly - Leadbelly's Last Sessions Volume One". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - Rock Island Line". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ "The Bourgeois Blues - Lead Belly | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Images for Lead Belly* - Negro Sinful Songs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - Take This Hammer: Huddie Ledbetter Memorial Album". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Martha Ledbetter". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Leadbelly - Leadbelly's Last Sessions Vol. 1". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - Leadbelly's Legacy Volume 3: Early Recordings". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - Leadbelly's Legacy Volume 3: Early Recordings". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  10. ^ "De Kalb Blues - Lead Belly | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Images for Lead Belly* - Diggin' My Potatoes / Defense Blues / Easy Rider / Pig Meat". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  13. ^ a b Leadbetter, H. (1960s). The Male Blues Vol.8. [Vinyl] Greenford, UK: Jazz Collector Records.
  14. ^ "Images for Lead Belly* - Negro Sinful Songs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Governor O.K. Allen (Angola Blues) - Lead Belly | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - Easy Rider: Leadbelly Legacy Volume Four". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  17. ^ "Lead Belly - Lead Belly's Last Sessions". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  18. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - "Live": New York 1947 & Austin, Texas 1949". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  19. ^ a b "Lead Belly - (Black Gal) Where Did You Sleep Last Night? / In New Orleans". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  20. ^ "Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Lead Belly Legacy Vol. 1)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  21. ^ "Images for Leadbelly - The Bourgeois Blues". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  22. ^ "Midnight Special - Lead Belly | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  23. ^ "Lead Belly - On A Monday / John Henry". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  24. ^ "Sonny Terry". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  25. ^ "Lead Belly - The Definitive Lead Belly". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  26. ^ "Lead Belly - Black Betty". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  27. ^ "LeadBelly - Absolutely The Best". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  28. ^ "Images for Lead Belly* - Bluesman - Collector's Edition". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  29. ^ "Leadbelly - Leadbelly's Legacy Volume 3: Early Recordings". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  30. ^ "Rock Island Line - Lead Belly | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  31. ^ "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.
  32. ^ "Lead Belly - Take This Hammer (Steel Drivin') / Corn Bread Rough". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  33. ^ "Take This Hammer - Lead Belly | Song Info | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
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