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Nelson in 1974

This list contains songs written by American country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, including those where he is credited as co-author. The 337 songs are arranged alphabetically.


A

  • A Moment Isn't Very Long
  • A Penny For Your Thoughts
  • Alice in Hulaland (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • Albania Albania
  • Always Now
  • American Dream (co-written With Bob Dylan)
  • Amnesia
  • And So Will You My Love
  • Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
  • Annie
  • Any Old Arms Won't Do (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • Are You Ever Coming Home (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • Are You Sure (co-written With Buddy Emmons)
  • Ashamed
  • Au Jardin De Mes Reves (Albert Babin, rearranged)

B

  • Bach Minuet In G (rearranged)
  • Back On The Road (co-written With Nathan Mackey)
  • Back to Earth
  • Baja Oklahoma (co-written With Dan Jenkins)
  • Band of Brothers
  • Bandera
  • Bird (co-written With Robert Braddock, Hal Coleman, Barry Etris, Claude Putman, Jr. And John Bush Shinn III)
  • Bird Medley
  • Blame It On The Times
  • Bloody Mary Morning
  • Blue Rock Montana
  • Both Ends Of The Candle
  • Broken Promise
  • Bring it On
  • Buddy

C

  • Changing Skies
  • Christmas Blues (co-written With Booker Jones)
  • Christmas Prayer
  • Cling To The Spark
  • Cold Empty Spark
  • Come On Back Jesus
  • Congratulations
  • Country Willie
  • Crazy
  • Cry Softly Darling
  • Crying In The Heart

D

  • Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
  • Darling Are You Ever Coming Home
  • December Day
  • Denver
  • Devil In A Sleeping Bag
  • Did I Ever Love You
  • Do Your Thing You're A Cowboy
  • Don't Say Love Or Nothing
  • Don't Touch Me There (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • Down At The Corner Beer Joint
  • Dream Come True
  • Driving the Herd (co-written with Buddy Cannon)

E

  • Ehrbares Madchen
  • El Niño
  • Electric Horseman
  • Eleven Dixie Mudcats
  • End Of Understanding
  • Energy Follows Thought (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • Everybody's Baby
  • Everything But You
  • Everywhere I go

F

G

H

  • Half a Man
  • Half Black Half Leopard
  • Happiness Lives Next Door
  • Hard Edge Texas (co-written With Kris Kristofferson)
  • He's Not For You
  • Healing Hands Of Time
  • Heartaches Of A Fool
  • Heartland
  • Heaven And Hell
  • Heebie Jeebie Blues No. 2
  • Hej Meddig
  • Hello Darling
  • Hello Fool
  • Hello Wall Number 2
  • Hello Walls
  • Hero
  • Hint Of Song
  • Hold Me Tighter
  • Home Is Where You're Happy
  • Home Motel
  • Homecoming In Heaven
  • Hot Blooded Woman
  • Hot Time In Music City Blues
  • How Does It Feel
  • How Long Is Forever

I

  • I Am The Forest
  • I Can Cry Again
  • I Can Get Off On You
  • I Can Still Reach Yesterday
  • I Can't Find The Time
  • I Didn't Sleep A Wink
  • I Don't Feel Anything
  • I Don't Go To Funerals (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • I Don't Know Where I Am Today
  • I Don't Know a Thing About Love
  • I Don't Understand
  • I Feel Sorry For Him
  • I Gotta Get Drunk
  • I Guard The Canadian Border
  • I Guess I Ve Come To Live Here
  • I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
  • I Just Don't Understand
  • I Just Stopped By
  • I Let My Mind Wander
  • I Live One Day At A Time
  • I Never Cared For You
  • I Should Have Kissed Her More
  • I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
  • I Thought About You
  • I Thought I Left You
  • I Want A Girl
  • I Want To Be Alone
  • I Write You Letters
  • I'd Already Cheated On You
  • I'd Rather You Didn't Love Me
  • I'll Stay Around
  • I'm A Memory
  • I'm Building Heartaches
  • I'm Falling In Love Again
  • I'm Gonna Lose A Lot Of Teardrops
  • I'm Not Trying To Forget You
  • I'm So Ashamed
  • I'm Still Not Over You
  • I'm Waiting forever
  • I’ve Got A Wonderful Future
  • I’ve Just Destroyed The World
  • I’ve Loved You All Over The World
  • I’ve Seen All This World I Care to See
  • If You Could Only See
  • If You Really Loved Me
  • In God's Eyes
  • In The Car Again
  • Is The Better Part Over
  • Is There Something On Your Mind
  • Island In The Sea
  • It Could Be Said That Way
  • It Should Be Easier Now
  • It's A Dream Come True
  • It's Not For Me To Understand
  • It's Not Supposed To Be That Way
  • It's Only Money (co-written with Buddy Cannon)

J

  • Jimmy's Road
  • Jingle Bells (James Pierpont, rearranged)
  • Just As I Am (Charlotte Elliott, William B. Bradbury)
  • Just For The Moment

K

  • Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus

L

  • Laying My Burdens Down
  • Laws of Nature
  • Lear And A Limo (co-written With Mickey Raphael)
  • Leave Alone
  • Let Me Be A Man
  • Let My Heart Be Broken
  • Let's Pretend We’re Strangers
  • Little Old Fashioned Karma
  • Little Things
  • Live Every Day (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • Local Memory
  • Loco
  • London
  • Lonely Little Mansion
  • Looking For A Place To Fall (co-written With Merle Haggard And Freddy Powers)

M

  • Makin's Of A Song (co-written With Max Barnes, Waylon Jennings And Troy Seals)
  • Man With the Blues
  • Mariachi
  • Matador
  • Me And Paul
  • Mean Old Greyhound Bus
  • Message
  • Misery Mansion
  • More Than One Way To Cry
  • Mr. Record Man
  • My Heart Was A Dancer (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • My Kind Of Girl
  • My Love
  • My Love For The Rose
  • My Own Peculiar Way

N

  • New Way To Cry
  • Night Life
  • No Love Around
  • No Place for Me
  • No Tomorrow In Sight
  • Nobody Said It Was Going To Be Easy
  • Nobody Slides My Friend

O

  • O’er The Waves (Juventino Rosas, rearranged)
  • Old Age And Treachery
  • On the Road Again
  • On The Road Too Long
  • Once Along
  • One Day At A Time
  • One In A Row
  • One Step Beyond
  • Opportunity To Cry
  • Our Chain Of Love
  • Over You Again

P

  • Pages
  • Part Where I Cry
  • The Party's Over
  • Permanently Lonely
  • Pet Wrangler
  • Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles
  • Pick Up The Pieces
  • Pick Up The Tempo
  • Place To Fall Apart (co-written With Merle Haggard And Freddy Powers)
  • Precious Memories
  • Pretend I Never Happened
  • Pretty Paper
  • Pride Wins Again
  • Promises Promises
  • Pullamo

R

S

  • Sad Songs And Waltzes
  • Save Your Tears
  • Send Me a Picture
  • Shall We Gather
  • She Always Comes Back To Me
  • She Is Gone
  • She Might Call
  • She's Gone (co-written With Fred Foster)
  • She's Not For You
  • She's Still Gone (Shirley Nelson)
  • Shelter Of My Arms
  • Shotgun Willie
  • Sister's Coming Home
  • Sit On My Lap
  • Sitting Here In Limbo (Written by Jimmy Cliff and Guilly Bright)
  • Slow Down Old World
  • So Much To Do
  • So You Think You're A Cowboy
  • Solidarity
  • Some Other Time
  • Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
  • Someone Waiting For You
  • Something To Think About
  • Sometimes She Lies (Harlan Howard, rearranged)
  • Somewhere In Texas
  • Songwriter
  • Sorrow Tearing Me Apart
  • Sound In Your Mind
  • Spirit I-iii
  • Spirit Of E Nine
  • Stage Coach Score (co-written With David Alan Coe)
  • Still Is Still Moving To Me
  • Storm Has Just Begun
  • Storm Within My Heart
  • Suffer In Silence
  • Summer Of Roses
  • Sweet Bye And Bye

T

  • Take My Advice (co-written With David Alan Coe)
  • Take My Word
  • Talk To Me
  • Tell It To Jesus
  • Ten with a Two
  • Texas
  • That's What Children Are For
  • That's Why I Love Her
  • The Wall
  • There Are Worse Things Than Be
  • There Goes A Man
  • There Is A Fountain
  • There Is No Easy Way
  • [[There shall be showers of blessing (written by Daniel Webster in 1883)
  • There's A Way
  • There's Gonna Be Love In My Home
  • There's No Tomorrow In Sight
  • There's Worse Things Than Being Alone
  • These Are Difficult Times
  • They're All The Same
  • Things To Remember
  • Three Days
  • Time Of The Preacher
  • To Make A Long Story Short (She's Gone)
  • Today's Gonna Make A Wonderful
  • Too Sick To Pray
  • Too Young To Settle Down (co-written With Jack Rhodes)
  • Touch Me
  • Tougher Than Leather
  • Truth Will Set You Free
  • Turn Out The Lights (co-written By Hank Craig)
  • Twice The Man (co-written With Edwin Griens And Maribeth Murray)
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
  • Two Different Roads (Hank Cochran, Jan Crutchfield; rearranged)
  • Two Sides To Every Story
  • Two Stories Wide

U

  • Uncloudy Day ( THE UNCLOUDED DAY - Original Lyrics & Music: Josiah K. Alwood, circa 1880)
  • Undo The Right (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • Used to Her

V

  • Valentine
  • Vir Ewig Is Ek Joune

W

  • Waiting Forever For You
  • Waiting Time
  • Wake Me When It's Over
  • Walking
  • Wanted On Mother (co-written With Harlan Howard)
  • Wasted/Revenge
  • We Don't Run
  • We Look For Love
  • We Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
  • What a Way to Live
  • What Can You Do To Me Now (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • What Do You Think Of Her Now (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • What Do You Want Me To Do
  • What Right Have I
  • When I’ve Sung My Last Hillbilly
  • When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
  • When We Live Again
  • Where Do You Stand
  • Where Dreams Come to Die (co-written with Buddy Cannon)
  • Where My House Lives
  • Where's The Show
  • White Cadillac Convertible Blue
  • Who Do I Know In Dallas (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • Who'll Buy My Memories (co-written With Eddie Noack)
  • Why Are You Picking On Me
  • Why Do I Have To Choose
  • Wilie Tuning
  • Will You Remember
  • Will You Remember Mine
  • Within Your Crowd
  • Wives and Girlfriends
  • Wonderful Future
  • Words Don't Fit The Picture
  • Write Your Own Song

Y

  • Yesterday's Wine
  • You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore
  • You Dream About Me
  • You Left A Long Long Time Ago
  • You Memory Won't Die
  • You Ought To Hear Me Cry
  • You Took My Happiness Away
  • You'll Always Have Someone (co-written With Hank Cochran)
  • Your Country Boy
  • You Wouldn't Cross The Street

References

  • "Willie Nelson Song Catalog". Songwriters Hall of Fame.com. The Songwriters Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 10, 2012.