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  Songs for Winter
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - sung by Billie Holiday
Winter Wonderland - sung by Louis Armstrong
Baby. It's Cold Outside - sung by Ray Charles and Betty Carter
A Hazy Shade of Winter - sung by Simon and Garfunkel
I Am a Rock - sung by Simon and Garfunkel
Long December - sung by Counting Crows
Sometimes in Winter - sung by Blood, Sweat, and Tears
If We Make It Through December - sung by Merle Haggard
Winter- sung by The Rolling Stones
Winter Rose - sung by Paul McCartney and Wings
Winter Time - sung by The Steve Miller Band
Winter's Day - sung by Tommy Roe
Winterlong - sung by Neil Young
Winter's Tale - sung by The Moody Blues
  Songs for Autumn
Autumn in New York - sung by Billie Holiday
Autumn in New York - sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Autumn Leaves - sung by Doris Day
Autumn Leaves - sung by Edith Piaf
Fall in Philadelphia - sung by Hall & Oates
Forever Autumn - sung by The Moody Blues
Harvest Moon - sung by Neil Young
September in the Rain - sung by Dinah Washington
September of My Years- sung by Frank Sinatra
September Song- sung by Willie Nelson
Try to Remember - sung by The Brothers Four
California Dreamin'- sung by The Mamas & The Papas
 

Cities and Towns
San Francisco - sung by Scott McKenzieS
I Left My Heart In San Francisco - sung by Tony Bennett
New Orleans - sung by Gary U.S. Bonds
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans - sung by Freddy Cannon
Philadelphia - sung by Bruce Springsteen
L.A. Freeway - sung by Jerry Jeff Walker
I've Been Everywhere - sung by Johnny Cash
Streets of Bakersfield - sung by Dwight Yoakam
My Hometown- sung by Bruce Springsteen
Dirty Little Town - sung by Kieran Kane
Our Town - sung by Iris Dement
Kansas City - sung Wilbert Harrison
Okie From Muskogee - sung by Merle Haggard
New York, New York- sung by Frank Sinatra
Do You Know The Way To San Jose - sung by Dionne Warwick
Chicago - sung by Frank Sinatra
Wichita Lineman - sung by Glen Campbell
Detroit City - sung by Bobby Bare
Lodi - sung by Creedence Clearwater

  Cars
455 Rocket - sung by Kathy Mattea
Automobile - sung by John Prine
Fast Car - sung by Tracy Chapman
Fun, Fun, Fun - sung by The Beach Boys
Heart of Saturday Night - sung by Tom Waits
Hot Rod Lincoln - sung by Commander Cody
Little Deuce Coupe- sung by The Beach Boys
Mercedes Benz - sung by Janis Joplin
Mercury Blues - sung K.C. Douglas
No Particular Place To Go - sung by Chuck Berry
Ol' '55 - sung by Tom Waits
One Piece at a Time - sung by Johnny Cash
Pink Cadillac - sung by Aretha Franklin
  Songs of Protest, Revolt, and Revolution
The Times They Are A-Changin' - sung by Bob Dylan
Talkin' About a Revolution - sung by Tracy Chapman
Won't Get Fooled Again - sung by The Who
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - sung by U2l
People Have the Power - sung by Patti Smith
People Got To Be Free - sung by The Young Rascals
Power to the People- sung by John Lennon
For What It's Worth - sung by Buffalo Springfield
Blowin' In the Wind - sung by Peter, Paul & Mary
Revolution - sung by Bob Marley
Solidarity - sung by Angelic Upstarts
  Songs of Friendship
You've Got a Friend - sung by Carole King
With a Little Help from My Friends - sung by The Beatles
That's What Friends Are For - sung by Dionne Warwick and Friends
Old Friends - sung by Simon and Garfunkel
My Best Friend - sung byJefferson Airplane
Lean on Me (I) - sung by Bill Withers
Lean on Me (II)- sung by theTV cast of Glee
I'll Be There for You - sung by The Rembrandts for the TV program Friends
He Was a Friend of Mine - sung by Bob Dylan
Friends (I) - sung by Elton John
Friends (II) - sung by The Beach Boys
You've Got a Friend in Me - sung by Randy Newman for the movie Toy Story 3
Stand By Me - sung by Ben E. King
  Bluegrass Ballads
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - sung by J.D. Crowe and The New South
Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die - sung by Ricky Skaggs
Don't Throw Your Life Away - sung by The Johnson Mountain Boys
Home Sweet Home Revisited - sung by J.D. Crowe and The New South
I only Wish You Knew - sung by J.D. Crowe and The New South
I Still Miss Someone - sung by The Earl Scruggs Review
In My Next Life- sung by J.D. Crowe and The New South
Look On and Cry - sung by Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Moutain Boys
Man of Constant Sorrow - sung by Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Moutain Boys
She Knows When You're on My Mind - sung by J.D. Crowe and The New South
Sittin' on Top of the World - sung by Earl Scruggs and Friends
Summer Wages - sung by J.D. Crowe and The New South
You Ain't Going Nowhere - sung by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

   A Blues Sampler
  Wasted Yearssung by John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 
sung by Bessie Smith
  I Cried for You  - 
sung by Billie Holiday
  At Last
sung by Etta James
  Ball and Chain 
sung by Janis Joplin
 
 My Carolina Sunshine Girl  - sung by Jimmie Rodgers
  Honest I Dosung by Jimmy Reed
  The Thrill is Gone  - 
sung by BB King and Tracy Chapman
  Anymore 
sung by Johnny Ace
 
 Where is My Good Man?  - sung by Memphis Minnie
  Dock of The Bay-  sung by Otis Redding

  The Night Time is The Right Time -  sung by Ray Charles
  Trouble in Mind  -  sung by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
 
 Down So Low  - sung by Tracy Nelson

   Six Sketches
  Vincent  -  sung by Don McLean

  Eleanor Rigby  -  sung by The Beatles

  Mr. Bojangles  -  sung by The Dirt Band

  Pretty Boy Floyd -  sung by The Byrds
  Emma Rose  -  sung by Kate Wolf
 
 Job  - sung by Seatrain
   Drugs and Booze
  Carmelita  -  sung by Dwight Yoakam

  There Stands the Glass  -  sung by Jerry Lee Lewis

  Sam Stone  -  sung by John Prine

  Tequila Sunrise -  sung by The Eagles
  Margaritaville  -  sung by Jimmy Buffet
 
 Cocaine Blues  - sung by Jackson Browne
  Snowblind Friend-  sung by Hoyt Axton
  The Needle and The Damage Done -  sung by Neil Young
  Sunday Morning Coming Down  -  sung by Kris Kristofferson
 
 Mother's Little Helper  - sung by The Rolling Stones
   Cowboys
  El Paso  -  sung by Marty Robbins

  
Pancho and Lefty  -  sung by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
  My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys -  sung by Willie Nelson

    "Talking" Songs
  Alice's Restaurant  -  written and sung by Arlo Guthrie

  Let Him Roll  -  written and sung by Guy Clark

    America       Pro     Con
  God Bless the U.S.A.  -  sung by Lee Greenwood

  Wasteland of the Free  -  sung by Iris Dement
    Hope and Happiness
  Here Comes the Sun  -  sung by The Beatles
  I Can See Clearly Now  -  sung by Jonny Nash

  Don't Worry, Be Happy -  sung by Bobby McFerrin

  If You Wanna Be Happy  -  sung by Jimmy Soul

  If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out  -  sung by Cat Stevens
   Young Love
 
At 16

  She Was Only Sixteen  -  sung by Sam Cooke

  Sixteen Candles  -  sung by The Crests

  Sweet Little Sixteen  -  sung by Chuck Berry
  
At 17
  I Saw Her Standing There  -  sung by The Beatles
  Dancing Queen  -  sung by ABBA
 
 At Seventeen -   sung by Janis Ian
   Canadian Folk Singers
  Lakes of Canada  -  sung by The Innocence Mission

  Matapedia  -  sung by Kate & Anna McGarrigle

  Suzanne  -  sung by Leonard Cohen

  If You Could Read My Mind -  sung by Gordon Lightfoot
  Momsong  -  sung by The Be Good Tanyas
 
 Four Strong Winds  - sung by Neil Young
   Love Lost
  Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain  -  sung by Willie Nelson

  Days Go By  -  sung by Dirty Vegas

  If That's the Way You Feel  -  sung by Ricky Skaggs

  Are You Lonseome Tonight -  sung by Elvis Presley
  Martha  -  sung by Tom Waits
 
 On Second Avenue  - sung by Art Garfunkel
  So Sad -  sung by The Everly Brothers
  Time On My Hands -  sung by Chaim Tannenbaum
  Warmth of the Sun  -  sung by The Beach Boys
 
 What'll I Do  - sung by Rufus Wainwright