Music with Knitting or Crochet
from CKC’s Library and Museum Collections
“Knitting in the Arbor,” words by August Bell; music by W. T. Porter, 1866
- Knitting in the Arbor in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Knitting in the Arbor at Hathitrust, original from University of Michigan
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States via HathiTrust
“Knitting Song,” words by Frank Armstrong; music by Anna Priscilla, 1914-1918
“The war has brought a custom back that seems to be most fitting.
It was the vogue in grandma’s time. It is the art of knitting.”
- Knitting Song in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Knitting Song at Washington University Digital Gateway
- Rights: Washington University Libraries reasonably believes that this item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, citing Rightsstatements.org.
“Knitting,” Muriel Bruce & Baron Aliotti, 1915
- Knitting in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Knitting at Hathitrust, original from University of California
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States via HathiTrust
“Grandmother Knitting,” in Fireside Fancies for Pipe Organ, J. W. Clokey, c. 1923
- Grandmother Knitting in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Grandmother Knitting at at Hathitrust
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States via HathiTrust
“And Then She’d Knit, Knit, Knit,” words by Eddie Moran; music by Harry Von Tilzer, 1917
- And Then She’d Knit, Knit, Knit in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- And Then She’d Knit, Knit, Knit at South Carolina Digital Library
- A PDF can also be downloaded from In Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Music Library, Columbia, SC 29208.
“I’d Like to Be Like Grandma,” words by Arthur Trevelyan; music by H.W. Petrie, 1895
- I’d Like to Be Like Grandma in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- I’d Like to Be Like Grandma at the New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Rights: The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries.
- CKC note: This song mentions crochet In the lyrics; girl on cover has knitting in her hands.
“Jamie’s on the Stormy Sea,” Bernard Covert, 1847
“Ere the twilight bat was flitting, in the sunset, at her knitting”
- Jamie’s on the Stormy Sea in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Jamie’s on the Stormy Sea at University of Wisconsin-Madison Americana Sheet Music Collection
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States.
“Knitting Socks for Daddy’s Men,” words and music Jean Munro Mulloy, c. 1915
- Knitting socks for Daddy’s Men in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Knitting Socks for Daddy’s Men at Bowling Green State University
- A transcription of the lyrics can also be found at Karen CK Ballard’s Threadwinder site.
- Rights: No copyright in the United States, per BGSU, citing Rightsstatements.org.
“Listen to the Knocking at the Knitting Club,” words by Bert Hanlon; music by Harry Von Tilzer, 1917
- Listen to the Knocking at the Knitting Club in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Listen to the Knocking at the Knitting Club at Sheet music from the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina.
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.
“Mother’s Darling Yet,” music and words by Halbert Hoard, 1899
- Mother’s Darling Yet in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Mother’s Darling Yet at the New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Rights: The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries.
“Soldier, Soldier Dear Unknown (A Knitting War Song),” by Alicia Adélaïde Needham, 1915
- Soldier, Soldier Dear Unknown in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Soldier, Soldier Dear Unknown at Hathitrust
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States via HathiTrust. Lyrics in French and English.
“The Knitting Song,” by Albert Hubbard, 1862
- The Knitting Song in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- The Knitting Song at Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
- Rights: Public Domain in the United States, per Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, citing Rightsstatements.org
“Each Stitch Is A Thought Of You, Dear,” words by AL. Sweet; music by Billy Baskette, 1918
- Each Stitch Is A Thought Of You, Dear, in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- Each Stitch Is A Thought Of You, Dear, at Bowling Green State University Libraries
- Rights: No copyright in the United States, per Bowling Green State University Libraries, citing Rightsstatements.org
“I Will Knit A Suit O’ Dreams,” Song Success from the Musical Play ‘Toot Toot,’ music by Jerome Kern; arranged by Chas. Miller, 1917
- I Will Knit A Suit O’ Dreams, in CKC’s Library and Museum Collection
- I Will Knit A Suit O’ Dreams, at the Cleveland Public Library
- Rights: The work is free of known copyright, per Cleveland Public Library, citing Rightsstatements.org