Jennifer - there are quite a lot of older songs in the database, but they aren't coded that way, so you have to look for specific titles/words/phrases and see what comes up. Pick an older phrase and search for it. A number of the Child ballads are quite old - they can be searched by number from 1-305 (not all are in, but I am working on it), such as a search for #1 will give you all of the versions of Child #1.