Ten public-domain songs you can play free

These ten pages are public-domain songs in the Songbook. The chords are this app's own simple spelling. There are no lyrics on the page. You bring the words.

Free here means the term on the composition has ended, so the title and a chord sketch can sit on a static page. It does not mean every recording you have heard is free to copy.

Open any title. Play the pad. If the key fights your voice, move the key chip. The address of the song does not change.

Hymn, carol, and a classical tune

Amazing Grace is the usual first tap. Three chords, a slow three, and a melody most rooms already know. Stay on G until the last line.

Silent Night is also in three, even quieter. It is a good late-evening page when you want few letters and a long breath.

Ode to Joy is a short classical line that still plays like a folk tune on the pad. Use it when you want a major walk that is not a hymn.

Folk pages you can finish in one sitting

Auld Lang Syne comes out at the turn of the year, but it is a small chart any month. When the Saints Go Marching In marches. Both reward a steady right hand.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot sits in a spiritual pocket. Oh Susanna and Camptown Races are quicker. If the changes feel busy, halve the tempo and keep the words in your head, not on the screen.

Home on the Range is wide and open. Yankee Doodle is short and clipped. Play them on neighbouring days so your hand learns two folk moods, not one.

How to use the ten

Do not try all ten in one night. Pick one hymn, one folk page, and one carol. Jingle Bells and Deck the Halls can wait for December if you want a season, or you can play them in July. The charts do not care.

The chord player online is a door into the same set. From there, the G major shelf and the C major shelf show more of the same family.

Three-chord Song sits under many of these pages. If two songs share I–IV–V, your hand already knows the second one.

Export a backup if a save matters to you. A browser can forget. The public page will still be here after a clear, but your private edits will not.

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