Reference:SONG LYRICS

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FINDING LYRICS TO SONGS

Song lyrics are often available full text on the Internet. Use a Search Engine to find the words to these songs.

Local public libraries may have the lyrics in a songbook. To find out which songbook has the song in question, do a search in the Los Angeles Public Library's Song Index: http://www.lapl.org/resources/indexes/

http://www.azlyrics.com

http://www.lyricsconnection.com/lyrics/searching.html

http://www.grainger.de/music/index.html (song index)

International Lyrics Server: http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm

Indiana University School of Music web site: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/songlyr.html

Find lyrics arranged by Individual Musicians and Popular Groups: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/artist.html

Music sources arranged by Type of Music: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html

Also see the PAC (for books with lyrics) under Musical Librettos, Songs--Indexes or Popular Music Texts. One of these in reference is Popular Song Index (Ref ML 128 S3 H4).

For lyrics to songs in Spanish, see http://www.cadvision.com/Home_Pages/accounts/ospinas/

It often helps to know the names of the lyricist and composer for a song when searching for the lyrics. A quick way of ascertaining this information is to visit the ASCAP http://ascap.com, or the BMI http://bmi.com web sites.

Also see Music Scores and Sheet Music

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