List of songs recorded by Lead Belly explained

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" ^[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" ("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"

Notes and References

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