Free Text Data

A Few Song/Speech Samples

Click here for a ZIP of a small sample of songs and political speeches that I've extracted for you already.

Lots of free text to consider online

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AZLyrics.com: comprehensive, and minimal ads
Presidential Speech Archive

Massive wealth of free online text:

The Language Goldmine: aggregator
Data on the Mind: aggregator (by Dr. Alexandra Paxton)
Gutenberg Project: classics, large corpus
Famous Poets & Poems: selection of poems