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List of musical compositions that are in the public domain in the United States:

Compositions already in the public domain

• Cherry Ripe (used as interval signal for a Br. # station)
• London Bridge is Falling Down
• Little Bo-Peep
• Daisy Bell: A Bicycle Built For Two
• Entrance of the Gladiators
• Mendelssohn's Wedding March
• Wheels on the Bus (lyrics not in public domain, but melody is)
• Here We Go 'Round the Mulb'ry Bush
• Songs from the William Tell Opera
• Songs from the Carmen Opera
• Funeral March
• Lincolnshire Poacher (used as interval signal for a Br. # station)
• Twelve Days of Christmas
• Carol of the Bells / Щедрик
• Jingle Bells
• Deck The Halls
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• O Little Town of Bethlehem (American version)
• Forest Green (UK version of O Little Town of Bethlehem)
• Bridal Chorus / Treulich geführt
• Swedish Rhapsody
• Yankee Doodle / Simple Simon
• Hail Columbia
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• I Wish I Was in Dixie
• Oh! Susanna
• Alabama Joe
• Turkey in the Straw
• Do Your Ears Hang Low?
• Cotton-Eyed Joe
• Steamboat Bill (famously whistled by Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie)
• I've Been Working on the Railroad
• This Little Light of Mine
• Three Little Kittens
• Prussia's Glory / Preußens Gloria
• Fur Elise
• Hot Cross Buns
• Did You Ever See a Lassie?
• Row Your Boat
• Are You Sleeping Brother John?
• Buttons and Bows (I'm not 100% sure about the copyright for this one so please research it further before using it)
• La Cucaracha
• Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall
• The Grand Old Duke of York
• Teddy Bears' Picnic
• Goosey Goosey Gander
• I Love Little Pussy
• Skip To My Lou
• Ring a Ring o' Roses
• Rain Rain Go Away
• A-Tisket, A-Tasket (recording by The Green Orbs often used in Elsagate videos)
• Ba, Ba,Black Sheep/Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Ah! vous dirai-je, maman)
• 99 Bottles of Beer
• Ten Green Bottles
• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Ten Little Injuns
• Ten Little Niggers (by Frank J. Green)
• She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
• Ding Dong Bell (Pussy's in the Well)
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• Old King Cole
• Farmer in the Dell (elsagate favorite)
• The Muffin Man (elsagate favorite)
• This Old Man (another elsagate favorite)
• Five Little Monkeys
• How Many Miles To Babylon?
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
• Short'nin Bread
• Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
• Mary Had A Little Lamb
• What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
• Blow the Man Down
• Spanish Ladies
• Spanish Lady (not to be confused with Spanish Ladies)
• All of Scott Joplin's compositions
  • The Entertainer
  • Maple Leaf Rag
  • Searchlight Rag
• Alabama Song / Whisky Bar
• Buffalo Gals
• Lift Every Voice and Sing (very monotone in my opinion)
• Hava Nagila
• Hanukkah, Hanukkah
• Yemei Ha'Chanukah
• Dreidel Song
• Olympic Anthem
• Alunelul
• Ode an die Freude / Ode to Joy
• Korobyeyniki / Коробе́йники
• Some Russian chastushki / часту́шки
• Pasli Ovce Valasi
• Stodola pumpa (similar to Co Uzyjem, To Dla Nas)
• Co uzyjem, to dla nas
• Tanczymy Labada
• Smigus (by Zygmunt Noskowski)
• Mam Husteczke Haftowana
• Kolko Graniaste
• Konopki
• A-a-a, Kotki Dwa
• Kukuleczka Kuka
• Przybjezeli do Betlejem
• Skrzypi Woz
• Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy
• Gdy Sie Chrystus Rodzi
• Chodzmy Wszyscy Do Stajenki
• シャボン玉
• The Picnic - song of mostly Japanese origin used in ice cream truck music boxes (JP WP article)

Soon in the public domain

• The Little Drummer Boy (copyright 1941)
• Horst-Wessel-Lied (already PD in some countries)
• I'm a Little Teapot

Songs whose copyright status is unclear

• Osanna Eh
• Il signore e la mia salvezza
• O'meally's Hornpipe
• 55 Days at Peking / Song of the 11 Nations
• Veeri Veeri Gummadi Pandu (Indian children's song)
• Johnny Johhny, Yes Papa (see Wikipedia article for explanation)
• Piggy on the Railway
• Solid As A Rock, Rooted Like A Tree (origins unclear)
• Song of General Kim Jong Il (Korean propaganda song)
• Song of General Kim Il Sung (Korean propaganda song)
• Aegukka (Korean propaganda song)
• Baby Shark (origin of the song unclear)
• Wo Ai Beijing Tiananmen (non commercial Chinese propaganda song)
• Red Sun in the Sky (non commercial Chinese propaganda song)
• Karadzicu, vodi Srbe svoje (recorded in Yugoslavia in '93, likely w/out a copyright notice), hard to find English-language information on Serbian copyright law.

Not in the public domain
[*] The Rake Hornpipe