What follows is a list of the first lines of all the songs/chants/other verse found in The Lord of the Rings. An aid for searching, perhaps, if you remember part of the first line. I am a bit more picky about what constitutes a separate "song" than the Appendix of LotR itself. For instance, I'm listing every single one of Tom Bombandil's songs separately (hence the list being so long for Book I). The page numbers are from the three-volume Del Rey/Ballantine U.S. edition. (The word "book" here refers to the actual books -- not volumes in which the books are published. LotR is six books, published for convenience in three volumes of two books each.) Page numbers are respective to volumes, not books. If I go really crazy on this I might put the whole text of each bit of verse, as well as some explanation of context. Maybe.
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The road goes ever on and on... -- p. 58
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky... -- p. 75
The road goes ever on and on... -- p. 102
Upon the hearth the fire is red... -- p. 106
Snow-white! Snow-white, O Lady clear! -- p. 108
Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go... -- p. 121
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day... -- p. 134
Farewell we call to hearth and hall! -- p. 139
O! Wanderers in the shadowed land... -- p. 147
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! -- p. 154
Hey! Come mery dol! derry dol! My darling! -- p. 154
Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle! -- p. 156
Hey! Come derry dol! Hop along, my hearties! -- p. 158
Now let the song begin! Let us sing together... -- p. 158
O slender as a willow-wand O clearer than the water... -- p. 160
Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow... -- p. 160
I had an errand there: gathering water-lilies... -- p. 162
And that proved well for you -- for now I shall no longer... -- p. 163
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! -- p. 171
Cold be hand and heart and bone... -- p. 179
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! -- p. 180
Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow... -- p. 180
Get out, you old Wight! Vanish in the sunlight! -- p. 181
Wake now my merry lads! Wake and hear me calling! -- p. 181
Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander? -- p. 182
There is an inn, a merry old inn... -- p. 198
All that is gold does not glitter... -- p. 212
Gil-galad was an Elven-king... -- p. 229
The leaves were long, the grass was green... -- p. 236
Troll sat alone on his seat of stone... -- p. 253
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Eärendil was a mariner... -- p. 282
A Elbereth Gilthoniel... -- p. 286
Seek for the Sword that was broken... -- p. 296
All that is gold does not glitter... -- p. 298
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg... -- p. 305
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring... -- p. 306
When winter first begins to bite... -- p. 327
I sit beside the fire and think... -- p. 333
The world was young, the mountains green... -- p. 376
An Elven-maid there was of old... -- p. 401
When evening in the Shire was grey... -- p. 424
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew... -- p. 439
Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen! -- p. 445
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Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows... -- p. 22
Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea! -- p. 29
Learn now the lore of Living Creatures! -- p. 79
In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring... -- p. 84
When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough... -- p. 94
O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië! -- p. 103
We come, we come with roll of drum... -- p. 104
To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone... -- p. 104
Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar? -- p. 126
Legolas Greenleaf long under tree... -- p. 126
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? -- p. 132
In Dwimordene, in Lórien... -- p. 140
Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! -- p. 144
Ere iron was found of tree was hewn... -- p. 175
Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone... -- p. 200
Ents the earthborn, old as Mountains... -- p. 226
Tall ships and tall kings... -- p. 239
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The cold hard lands / they bites our hands... -- p. 269
Alive without breath / as cold as death... -- p. 269
Grey as a mouse / Big as a house... -- p. 299
Seek for the Sword that was Broken... -- p. 314
A Elbereth Gilthoniel... -- p. 400
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Over the land there lies a long shadow... -- p. 58
From the dark Dunharrow in the dim morning... -- p. 83
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! -- p. 123
Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen... -- p. 130
Faithful servant yet master's bane... -- p. 132
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising -- p. 134
We heard of the horns in the hills ringing... -- p. 136
When the black death blows... -- p. 155
Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui... -- p. 167
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In western lands beneath the Sun... -- p. 204
Long live the Halflings! Praise them with great praise! -- p. 257
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying... -- p. 261
Sing now, ye people of the Tower of Anor... -- p. 269
Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising... -- p. 284
The road goes ever on and on... -- p. 297
Still round the corner there may wait... -- p. 344
A! Elbereth Gilthoniel! -- p. 344
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