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" (a.k.a. "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'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"