Folk Songs About Songs, Songwriting

Compiled by: Larry Hoyt:
- "Nashville Numbers (1,4,5)"  - Steve Key
- "Nothing to Say" - Carla Ulbrich
- "Artist's Heart" - Dana "Short Order" Cooke
- "Cynical Love Song" - Dana "Short Order" Cooke
- "Here Is the Chorus" - written by Bernard Carney; performed by Fink & Marxer
- "The Song" - David Olney
- "Write Your Own Songs" - Willie Nelson
-  "Writing A Song For You" - Ben Sands
-  "I Write the Songs" - written by Bruce Johnston, performed by Barry Manilow
- "Something for Nothing" - Loudon Wainwright III
- "I'm God" - George Wurzback
- "Kathy's Song" - Simon & Garfunkel
- "Railroad Bill" - Andy Breckman  (not the trad song)
- "Close to the Bone" - Martha Trachtenberg
- "Are You Happy Now" - Richard Shindell
- "My Rag" - John Hartford
- "Sing Me Back Home" - Merle Haggard
- "The Poet Game" - Greg Brown
- "Restless Spirit Wandering" - Tim O'Brien
- "Hallelujah" - Leonard Cohen
- "Hotels and Planes" - Bill Morrissey
- "The Trade" - Dana Robinson
- "Rain Ain't Falling" - Robert Bobby
- "Fill the World With Song" - Stefan des Lauriers
- "This Is Not a Sing-Along" - Scott Katz
- "The Advice" - John Flynn
- "That's How I Learned to Sing the Blues" - Tim O'Brien
- "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" - Steve Goodman
- "The Last Song" - JP Jones
- "Po Man (Writer's Blues)" - JP Jones
- "Title of the Song" - Darrell Scott
- "A Place in the Choir" - Bill Staines & others
- "One Voice" - Wailin' Jennies
- "Fa-Sol-La" - Finest Kind
- "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Singer" - Tom Lewis
- "How Can I Keep from Singing" - Bill Staines & others

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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