List of songs with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse

This list contains songs with lyrics written or co-written by the English humorist, novelist and playwright P. G. Wodehouse.

Song Title	Additional writers	Musical debut	Musical	Notes
Act One Finale (from Sitting Pretty)	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Act One Finale (from The Three Musketeers)	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
All For One	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
The Actor's Life	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
All Full of Talk	Jerome Kern	1916	Miss Springtime	[3]
All You Need Is a Girl	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Ask Dad	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
Back To the Dear Old Trenches	Ivan Caryll	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[5]
Beauty Prize	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	Unknown	--	[6]
Behind the Scenes	Jerome Kern	1906	The Beauty of Bath	Included in the libretto but not in the vocal score and may not have been used.[7]
Bill	Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein II	1918 1927 1986	Oh, Lady! Lady!! Show Boat Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood	[8][9]
Bless My Soul	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Bongo on the Congo	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Breakfast in Bed	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[10]
Bright Lights	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
Broken Blossoms	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Bunny Dear	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Cabaret Girl	Jerome Kern Anne Caldwell George Grossmith, Jr.	Unknown	--	[13]
Calico	Herbert Haines Charles H. Taylor	1907	My Darling	[7]
Carnival of Fools	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
The Charity Class	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
The Chase	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Childhood Days	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
The Church Round the Corner	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[14][15]
Cleopatra	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Cleopatterer	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
College Spirit	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Come Where Nature Calls	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
Comin' Thru the Rye	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
Come to Me	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	unknown	--	[18]
Come to Us	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
A Cottage in Kent	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
The Crickets Are Calling	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Daisy	Jerome Kern	1917	Have a Heart	[20]
Days Gone By	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Dear Little Girl	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Dear Old Fashioned Prison of Mine	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
A Desert Island	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Down Here in Greenwich Village	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Down on the Banks of the Subway	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Dreams	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
The Enchanted Train	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[21]
Every Day	Jerome Kern	Unknown	--	[22]
Fairyland	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
The Fall of Man	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[23]
Finale (from Sally)	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Finale (from The Three Musketeers)	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Finale Act One (from Leave It to Jane)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Finale Act Two (from Leave It to Jane)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Finale Ultimo	George Gershwin Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
The First Day of May	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
First Rose of Summer	Jerome Kern Anne Caldwell	Unknown	--	[25]
Flags of Allies	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
Flubby Dub, the Cave-Man	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
Football Song	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
For the Man I Love	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
The Frolic of a Breeze	F. Clifford Harris	1906	The Beauty of Bath	[7]
Gascony Bred	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
The Girl Behind the Gun	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
The Glow Worm	Herbert Haines	1907	My Darling	[7]
Godsons and Grandmothers	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
Go Little Boat	Jerome Kern	1917 1918	Miss 1917 Oh, My Dear	[21]
Good Old Atwater	Jerome Kern	1917	Leave It to Jane	[27]
Gossip	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Greenwich Village	Jerome Kern	1918	Oh, Lady! Lady!!	[28]
Gypsy Bring Your Fiddle	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[23]
Half A Married Man	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[29]
Happy Family	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
He Doesn't Know	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
Here They are	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	1928	Rosalie	[30]
Home from Oh Kay	George Gershwin Guy Bolton	Unknown	--	[31]
Homeland	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
Honeymoon Inn	Jerome Kern	1917 1977	Have a Heart Very Good Eddie	[32]
Honeymoon Isle	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
(Oh,) How Warm It is Today	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
Hussars March	Sigmund Romberg	1928	Rosalie	[33]
Hymn to the Sun	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
(And) I Am All Alone	Jerome Kern	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
I Like It	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
I Never Knew	Jean Schwartz	1918	See You Later #2	[34]
I Shall Be All Right Now	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
I Wonder Whether (I've Loved You All My Life)	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
If Ever I Lost You	Ivor Novello	1921	The Golden Moth	[35]
I'd Ask No More	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
I'm a Prize	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
I'm Here, Little Girl, I'm Here	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
I'm Going To Find a Girl	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
I'm So Busy	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
I'm the Old Man in the Moon	Jerome Kern	Unknown	--	[36]
In The Garden of Romance	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
It's a Great Big Land	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
It's a Hard Hard World for a Man	Jerome Kern	1918	Oh, Lady! Lady!!	[38]
It's A Long, Long Day	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
I've Had My Share (I Don't Care)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
I've Played For You	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Josephine	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
Joy Bells	Jerome Kern	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
Just a Voice to Call Me Dear	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[39]
Just You Watch My Step	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Koo-La-Loo	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
L'Amour Toujours-L'Amour	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Land Where Journeys End (and Dreams Come True)	Louis Hirsch	Unknown	--	[40]
Land where the Good Songs Go	Jerome Kern	Unknown	--	[41]
Leave It To Jane	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
The Legend of the Tea Tree	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Let's Make a Night of It	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
Life in the Old Dog Yet	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
Life Is a Game of Bluff	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Life's a Tale	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[42]
Lilt of a Gypsy Strain	Emmerich Kálmán	Unknown	--	[43]
A Little Bid for Sympathy	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
A Little Bit of Ribbon	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
Little Bride	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
A Little Bungalow in Quoque	Jerome Kern	1917 1920 1977	The Riviera Girl Sally Very Good Eddie	[15][32]
A Little Country Mouse	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Look for the Silver Lining	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
The Love Monopoly	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
The Magic Train	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Man, Man, Man	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[23]
March of the Musketeers	Rudolf Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[44]
May Moon	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
Meet Me Down on Main Street	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
Moon Love	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[45]
Moon Song	Jerome Kern	1918	Oh, Lady! Lady!!	[46]
Mr. and Mrs. Rorer	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
My Belle	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
My Castle in the Air	Jerome Kern	1916	Miss Springtime	[47]
My China Rose	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
My Sword And I	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
My Wife - My Man	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
Napoleon	Jerome Kern	1917	Have a Heart	[48]
Nerves	Jean Schwartz Guy Bolton	1922	The Cabaret Girl	[49]
Nesting Time (in Flatbush)	Jerome Kern	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
New York Serenade	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	1928	Rosalie	[50]
Non-Stop Dancing	Jerome Kern	1923	The Beauty Prize	[51]
Now That My Ship's Come Home	Guy Jones	1907	The Gay Gordons	[7]
Nuts in May	Ivor Novello	1921	The Golden Moth	[52]
Oh Gee Oh Joy	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	1928	Rosalie	[53]
Oh, Mr Chamberlain!	Jerome Kern	1906	The Beauty of Bath	Rewritten version of a Kern song from The Catch of the Season (1905)[7]
Oh, My Dear!	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
Oh, Daddy Please	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
Oh, Lady! Lady!!	Jerome Kern	1918	Oh, Lady! Lady!!	[54]
The Old-Fashioned Drama	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
An Old-Fashioned Wife	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
On a Desert Island With You	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[55]
Once In September	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
Once Upon a Time	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Only A Rose	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Opening Act 1 Appendix (Pergola Patrol)	Jerome Kern Anne Caldwell George Grossmith, Jr.	Unknown	--	[56]
Opening Act Two (from Leave It to Jane)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Overture (from Leave It to Jane)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Our Chinese Bungalow	Armand Vecsey Oscar Shaw	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Our City of Dreams	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
A Package of Seeds	Jerome Kern Herbert Reynolds	1915 1917	Ninety in the Shade Oh, Boy!	[24]
A Pal Like You (We're Going to Be Pals)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
A Pal Like You	Jerome Kern	Unknown	--	[57] Also known as (I Was Looking For) A Pal Like You
A Peach of a Life	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	Also known as Life of a Peach[16]
Peter Pan	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
Phoebe Snow	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
Play Out Music (from Leave It to Jane)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
The Polka Dot	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Poor Prune	Jerome Kern	1917	Leave It to Jane	[58]
Prologue (from The Three Musketeers)	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Proposals	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
Put Me in My Little Cell	Frederick Rosse	1904	Sergeant Brue	[59] Not included in the published score or libretto; published separately.[7]
Reaching for Stars	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Riviera Girl	Emmerich Kálmán Bela Jenbach Leo Stein	Unknown	--	[60]
The Road That Lies Before	Jerome Kern	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
Rolled into One	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
Sally Selection	Jerome Kern Buddy DeSylva Clifford Grey Anne Caldwell	Unknown	--	[61]
Samarkand	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
Saturday Night	Jerome Kern	Unknown	--	[62]
Say So	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	1928	Rosalie	[63]
Shadow of the Moon	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Shimmy With Me	Jerome Kern	1922 2003	The Cabaret Girl Never Gonna Dance	[21][64]
Shop	Jerome Kern Schuyler Green	1917	Have a Heart	[11]
Shufflin' Sam	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[65]
The Siren Song	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
The Siren's Song	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Sir Galahad	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Sitting Pretty	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[66]
Some Day Waiting Will End	Ivan Caryll	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[67]
Some One	Jerome Kern Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Sometimes I Feel Just Like Grandpa	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[23]
The Spirit of the Drum	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
The Sun Shines Brighter	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Sunrise	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Sweet Sweet	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	Unknown	--	[68]
That's What Men are For	Ivan Caryll	1918	The Canary	[69]
Tell Me All Your Troubles, Cutie	Jerome Kern	1917	Miss 1917	[70]
There Isn't One Girl	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[71]
There It Is Again	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
There'll Never Be Another Girl Like Daisy	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[72]
There's a Light in your Eyes	Ivan Caryll	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[73]
There's a Toast	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	Unknown	--	[74]
This is the Existence	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[75]
Thousands of Years Ago	Ivan Caryll	1918	The Canary	[69][76]
Throw Me a Rose	Emmerich Kálmán Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Till The Clouds Roll By	Jerome Kern	1917 unknown 1986	Oh, Boy! Till the Clouds Roll by Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood	[9][24]
To Live a Simple Life	Herbert Haines	1907	My Darling	[7]
True to Me	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
Try Again	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
Tulip Time in Sing Sing	Jerome Kern	1920 1924	Sally Sitting Pretty	[15][77]
Twenties are here to Stay	George Gershwin Guy Bolton	Unknown	--	[78]
Two Little Ships	Armand Vecsey Guy Bolton	1927	The Nightingale	[17]
A Very Good Girl on Sunday	Jerome Kern Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
Victor Light Opera Selection	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[16]
Vive La France	Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey	1928	The Three Musketeers	[2]
Wait Till Tomorrow	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Leave It to Jane	[79]
We're Crooks	Jerome Kern	1917	Miss 1917	[80]
West Point song	Sigmund Romberg	1928	Rosalie	[81]
What I'm Longing to Say	Jerome Kern	1917	Leave It to Jane	[82]
What! What! What!	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
What's The Use?	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
When the Ships Come Home	Jerome Kern	1920	That Little Thing	[83]
When You Are in China	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
When You Take the Road With Me	Jerome Kern	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
When You're Full of Talk	Jerome Kern Herbert Reynolds	1916	Miss Springtime	[37]
The Whippoorwill Waltz	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Why Don't They Hand It to Me?	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[23]
Why Must We always be Dreaming	Sigmund Romberg	1928	Rosalie	[84]
Why?	Jerome Kern	1917	Leave It to Jane	[85]
Wild Rose	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[15]
Will You Forget?	Emmerich Kálmán	1917	The Riviera Girl	[86]
Women Haven't Any Mercy on a Man	Ivan Caryll Guy Bolton	1918	The Girl Behind the Gun	[26]
Words Are Not Needed (Every Day)	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[24]
Worries	Jerome Kern	1924	Sitting Pretty	[87]
Yale	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
A Year from Today	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1924	Sitting Pretty	[1]
Yesterday	Armand Vecsey	1919	The Rose of China	[12]
You Can't Keep a Good Girl Down	Jerome Kern Clifford Grey	1920	Sally	[88]
You Can't Make Love by Wireless	Jerome Kern George Grossmith, Jr.	1923	The Beauty Prize	[89]
You Found Me and I Found You	Jerome Kern	1918	Oh, Lady! Lady!!	[90]
You Never Knew About Me	Jerome Kern Guy Bolton	1917	Oh, Boy!	[21]
You Never Know	Louis Hirsch Guy Bolton	1918	Oh, My Dear!	[4]
You Said Something	Jerome Kern	1917	Have a Heart	[91]
You, You, You	Guy Jones	1907	The Gay Gordons	[7]
You'll Find Me Playing Mah-Jongg	Jerome Kern	1923	The Beauty Prize	[19]
Your Eyes	Rudolf Friml	1928	The Three Musketeers	[92]
You're the Top	Cole Porter	1934	Anything Goes	Lyrics re-written by Wodehouse for British version