A note on the stuff in parentheses: “c” = circa, “r” = recorded (which doesn't mean copyrighted or "first written"; that may have happened well before), "TA" = Traditional Anonymous. “<” = before, and “>” = after. For instance, a song about a train wreck that happened in 1909 might have a  “>” after the date because no one would have written about an event that had not yet occurred (duh). A song found in a book published in 1857 might have a “<”  as we know the song was known at least by that date. If you see a date after 1923 followed by "PD", it means the song was apparently known for a long while, but not recorded or put into a song books until the date cited. In most of these cases, the name of the writer was never recorded or is now lost. Or perhaps a name was given that was only a good guess and cannot be proven or dis-proven. An acute observer may notice a disproportionate number of 1927 dates. This is the year Carl Sandburg published his "American Songbag", a cornucopia of old American songs. A question mark (?) means I suspect it belongs in this list, but am less than sure. Whenever I found a choice of two dates, which was frequent, I  usually cite the older one. A few songs well-known by multiple names are entered under each name.  Many are known by multiple names, by first line or by repeated phrases. If you do not find what you want on the first try, think outside the box, as it may be here under a variant of the name you know.

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I Ain't Gonna Give Anybody None of this Jelly Roll (1919)
I Ain't Gonna Study War No More (1899)
I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
I Ain't Got Nobody (1916)
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (1913)
I Am a Pilgrim (1909)
I Am a Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow
I Am a Poor wayfaring Stranger (1916)
I Am an Old Bachelor (1936 PD)
I Am a Rover (1845)
I Am the Captain of the Pinafore (1878)

I Am the Light of This World (?)

I Belong to Glagow (1921)

I Belong to the Band
I Bid You Goodnight 1871)

I Bought Me a Cat

I Buyed Me a Little Dog
I Came to this Country (1920)
I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
I Cannot Sing the Old Songs
I Can't Be True So Far Away (1909)
I Can't Feel at Home in this World Anymore (1924 PD)
I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes
I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do (1900)

I Cried for You (1923)
Icy Mountain (1909)
Ida Red (1924 PD)
Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider (1903)
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier (1917)

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1926)

I'd Leave Ma Happy Home for You (1899)
I'd Like to Be a Cowgirl, But I'm A-scared of Cows
I'd Like to Be in Texas for the Roundup in the Spring (1931 PD)
I'd Like to Live in Loveland w/Girl Like You (1910)
I Don't Care if I Never Wake Up (1899)
I Don't Love Nobody (1896)
I Don't Want to Get Well (1917)
I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard (1894)
I Don't Want Your Greenback Dollar
I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
I Dreampt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls (1843)
If Anybody Asks You
If Brother jack Were Here (Civil War)
If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
If I Could Holler Like a Mountain Jack
If I Ever Cease to Love (1871)
If I Had My Life to Live Over (1919)
If I Had My Way (1913)
If I Knocked the L out of Kelly (1916)
If I Lose (r 1927)
If I Was a Mining Man
If I Was on a Foggy Mountain Top (1906)
If'n I Was Your True Love
I Found the Way
I Found You Among the Roses
if You Want to Go to Heaven, Tell You What to Do (1925 PD)
If One Won't, Another Will
If the River was Whiskey (r 1930)
If We Can't Be the Same Old Sweethearts (1915)

Ii You Knew Susie  (1925)
If You Only Got a Mustache (1864)
If You Were the Only Girl in the World (1916)
I Gave My Love a Cherry (1430, 1850)
I Give to You a Paper of Pins (1826)
I Got Mine (1901)
I Had a Little Rooster (1849)
​I Had But Fifty Cents
​I Hate the Train that Carried My Girl from Town

I Have No One to Love Me
I Have You (1913)
I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer
I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop Say (orig 1846)
I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave (1906)
I Know Where I'm Going (1611)
I Know You, Rider (1934 PD)
I Like Coffee, I Like Tea (1922)
I Like Mountain Music
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight (?)
Ilkley Moor Baht 'At (1917)
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, Love (1800's)

I'll Be Alright Someday
I'll Be No Stranger There
I'll Be Rested
I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time (1920)
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise (1922)
I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins
I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound
I'll Hit the Road Again, Boys
I'll Live Again
I'll Meet You when the Sun Goes Down (c1916)
I'll Never Get Drunk No More (1920)
I'll Never Go There Anymore (1892)
I'll Not Marry at All
I'll Not Marry You (1826)
I'll Remember You Tonight in My Prayers
I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen (1876)