# Site for searching song lyrics?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-for-searching-song-lyrics/179660>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-for-searching-song-lyrics/179660 "2003-06-04T18:25:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-for-searching-song-lyrics/179660/1 "2003-06-04T18:25:01Z")

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Good day all!  
Does anyone know of a good website that allows you type in whatever lyrics to a song you know (or can remember) and will search for songs containing those lyrics?  
I’ve tried searching myself, but to no avail…  
Thanks. 🙂

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-for-searching-song-lyrics/179660/2 "2003-06-04T18:28:06Z")

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Google is the best. Any site with song lyrics will eventually be closed down, anyway.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-for-searching-song-lyrics/179660/3 "2003-06-04T18:44:16Z")

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Some tips for using google efficiently:

If you know some of the lyrics, avoid using the title of the song, which will bring up lots of references to the named song that don’t have lyrics. For example, “I’ve been working on the railroad” will bring up the lyrics, but also lots of other things. “All the livelong day” will bring up the lyrics with much less extraneous stuff.

If you’re **ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN** the lyrics you remember are correct, put them in quotation marks. This brings up only links with those exact words in that exact order. If you enter the lyrics without quotation marks, it will also bring up every link that has any of the words entered–but this can be helpful if for some reason what you remember is not exactly right.

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**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-for-searching-song-lyrics/179660/4 "2003-06-04T18:47:19Z")

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YESSS! Found it!  
Muchas gracias for your help. 😃