| Song Title | Artist | Topic |
| H2Ogate Blues | Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson | scandal |
| Ha! Ha! Said the Clown | Manfred Mann | laughter |
| Ha Ha You’re Dead | Green Day | schadenfreude |
| Ha Lese Le Di Khanna | Hugh Masekela | four-legged livestock |
| Habits (Stay High) | Tove Lo | hedonism |
| Hackensack | Thelonious Monk | towns |
| Had Me a Real Good Time | Faces | bicycles |
| Hair | PJ Harvey | hair |
| The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington | Jake Thackray | neighbours |
| Haitian Divorce | Steely Dan | influenced by reggae |
| Haitian Fight Song | Danny Thompson | double bass |
| Hakuna Matata | Jimmy Cliff & Lebo M | pride |
| Hal | Yasmine Hamdan | slow, sexy love songs |
| Half a Mile | Karine Polwart | murder |
| Half a World Away | R.E.M. | tiredness |
| Half Dead | The Mountain Goats | boring & dull |
| Half Light I | Arcade Fire | sunsets & twilight |
| Half Sister | Standard Fare | sisters |
| Half the Perfect World | Madeleine Peyroux | fractions & portions |
| Half the World Away | Oasis | Manchester |
| Halfway to Paradise | Billy Fury | fractions & portions |
| Halfway Up, Halfway Down | Dennis Brown | compromise |
| Hall of Fame | Andre Williams | museums, galleries & exhibitions |
| The Hall of Mirrors | Kraftwerk | inversions |
| Hallelujah | Jeff Buckley | covers better than the original |
| Halley’s Comet | Billie Eilish | rare events |
| Hallogallo | Neu! | long songs |
| Hallowed Be Thy Name | Iron Maiden | prisons |
| Halloween | Sonic Youth | horror-inspired songs |
| Halloween Night | AKB48 | time travel |
| Halo | Lotte Kestner | crowns |
| Haluan sinut | Regina | gender & LGBTQ+ |
| Ham ‘n’ Eggs | A Tribe Called Quest | meals & mealtimes |
| Hamburger Lady | Throbbing Gristle | scary songs |
| Hammer and Nails (aka More Than a Hammer and Nails) | The Staple Singers | tools |
| The Hammer Song | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | tools |
| Hammering in My Head | Garbage | machinery, industry & technology |
| Hamsters | King Missile | rodents |
| Han-Tyumi, the Confused Cyborg | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | artificial intelligence |
| Hana Nu Kajimaya | Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman | tradition |
| Hand Clapping Song | The Meters | physical gestures |
| Hand in Glove | The Smiths | never |
| Hand in My Pocket | Alanis Morissette | physical gestures |
| Hand Job, Bland Job, I Don’t Understand Job | Garfunkel and Oates | provocative, strange or humorous titles |
| Hand of Kindness | Richard Thompson | kindness |
| Hand Springs | The White Stripes | separation |
| The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | The Smiths | horror-inspired songs |
| Handbags and Gladrags | Mike D’Abo | clothes |
| Handbags and Gladrags | Rod Stewart | bags & containers |
| Handcart Bwoy | Perfect | overturning the odds |
| Handle with Care | Traveling Wilburys | supergroups |
| Handlebars | Flobots | charisma |
| Hands Across the Table | The BBC Dance Orchestra, directed by Henry Hall (vocal by Dan Donovan) | physical gestures |
| The Handshake | Bad Religion | formal agreements |
| The Handweaver and the Factory Maid | The Imagined Village | manual labour |
| Handyman Blues | Billy Bragg | decor |
| Hang On Sloopy | The McCoys | hanging |
| Hang On to Your Ego | The Beach Boys | id, ego & superego |
| Hang Out the Stars in Indiana | Al Bowlly | hanging |
| Hang-Ten! | The Soup Dragons | shyness |
| Hangin’ on a String | Loose Ends | uncertainty |
| Hanging Around | The Stranglers | hanging |
| Hanging Garden | The Necks | gardens |
| Hanging in the Gallery | Strawbs | museums, galleries & exhibitions |
| Hanging on a Star | Nick Drake | hanging |
| Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire | Chumbawamba | army |
| Hanging on the Telephone | Blondie | letters, emails & telegrams |
| Hanging on the Telephone | The Nerves | lesser known originals |
| Hangman’s Hill | Peter Blegvad with John Greaves & Chris Cutler | hanging |
| Hanno the Navigator | Al Stewart | discovery |
| Hanoi | La Grande Sophie | Asian cities |
| Happiness | Goldfrapp | happiness |
| Happiness Is a Warm Gun | The Breeders | Beatles covers |
| Happy | Mazzy Star | happiness |
| Happy | The Rolling Stones | happiness |
| Happy Birthday | Altered Images | birthdays |
| Happy Birthday | The Birthday Party | anniversaries |
| Happy Birthday | Stevie Wonder | legacy |
| Happy Birthday Girl | Spearmint | birthdays |
| The Happy Birthday Song | Andrew Bird | birthdays |
| Happy Day | Talking Heads | innocence |
| Happy Feet | Cab Calloway | feet |
| Happy, Happy Birthday Baby | The Tune Weavers | anniversaries |
| Happy House | Siouxsie and the Banshees | fun |
| Happy Jack | The Who | sand |
| Happy Land | Ultramarine & Robert Wyatt | unlikely collaborations |
| Happy Loving Couples | Joe Jackson | two – part 2 |
| Happy New Year | Camera Obscura | new year |
| Happy New Year | Beverley | great keyboards |
| H.A.P.P.Y. Radio | Edwin Starr | switches & buttons |
| Happy Summer Wedding | Goose house | male names |
| Happy Time | Tim Buckley | happiness |
| Happy Together | The Turtles | euphoria |
| Happy When It Rains | The Jesus and Mary Chain | bad weather |
| Hard | Tom Robinson | being a man or a woman |
| Hard & Tuff | Dub Syndicate | resilience |
| Hard Day on the Planet | Loudon Wainwright III | climate change |
| A Hard Day’s Night | The Beatles | work |
| Hard Hands | Ray Barretto | nicknames & pseudonyms |
| Hard Headed Woman | Wanda Jackson | Elvis |
| Hard Headed Woman | Cat Stevens | searching & seeking |
| Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah) | Ella Fitzgerald | girls’ names |
| Hard On | Withered Hand | songs for your teenage self |
| Hard On for Love | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | lust |
| A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall | Bob Dylan | prophets |
| Hard Time Killing Floor Blues | Skip James | great solo performances |
| Hard Times | Baby Huey | poverty |
| Hard Times of Old England Retold | The Imagined Village | villages |
| Hard to Be | David Bazan | higher education |
| Hard to Explain | The Strokes | stop-start songs |
| Hard to Handle | Grateful Dead | favourite live versions |
| Hard to Handle | Otis Redding | seduction |
| Hard Wired | Tracy Chapman | collecting & listing |
| Hard Work | John Handy | spring cleaning & household chores |
| Hard Workin’ Man | Captain Beefheart | industry & manufacturing |
| Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | Steam Powered Giraffe | finish where they begin |
| The Harder They Come | Jimmy Cliff | recorded for movies |
| The Hardest Button to Button | The White Stripes | babies |
| The Hardest Part | Blondie | iron & steel |
| The Hardest Walk | The Jesus and Mary Chain | superlatives |
| Hardly Wait | PJ Harvey | anticipation |
| Hardware Store | Weird Al Yankovic | hardware |
| Harlem Shuffle | Bob & Earl | dance styles |
| Harmonie du soir à Chateauguay | Beau Dommage | days of the week |
| Harold and Joe | The Cure | nothing |
| Harp and Aeolian Harp | Sarah Deere-Jones | harp, lyre & zither |
| Harper Valley PTA | Jeannie C. Riley | arguments |
| Harpsichord Shuffle | Wynder K. Frog | harpsichord |
| Harriet Brown | Opal | actors |
| Harriet Tubman’s Ballad | Woody Guthrie | 19th century life |
| Harrowdown Hill | Thom Yorke | scandal |
| Harry’s House / Centerpiece | Joni Mitchell | decor |
| Harvest Festival | XTC | September & October |
| Harvest for the World | The Isley Brothers | hope |
| Harvest in the East | Tommy McCook | September & October |
| Harvest Moon | Cassandra Wilson | the moon |
| Harvest of the Moon | Steeleye Span | tradition |
| Has He Got a Friend for Me? | Richard and Linda Thompson | asking, begging & pleading |
| Hassan I Sahba | Hawkwind | violin |
| Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevera | Carlos Puebla | hero worship |
| Hate of the City | Cockney Rejects | shoes |
| Hate the Police | Mudhoney | law enforcement |
| Hatfield 1980 | Everything but the Girl | suburbia |
| Hattonrigg Pit Disaster, 1910 | De Rosa | safety & danger |
| Haunting at 1300 McKinley | The Black Angels | addresses |
| The Haunting of John Rebus | Jackie Leven | detectives |
| Have a Nice Day | Roxanne Shante | competition |
| Have a Nice Day | World Order | impressive videos |
| Have Mercy Baby | Billy Ward & His Dominoes | influenced by gospel |
| Have More Time | Marvin Smith | multitasking & being busy |
| Have One on Me | Joanna Newsom | spiders |
| Have You Ever Been Away? | The Beautiful South | stick it to the man |
| Have You Ever Seen the Rain? | Creedence Clearwater Revival | bad weather |
| Have You Got 10p? | The Ejected | coins |
| Have You Seen Bruce Richard Reynolds? | Alabama 3 | smuggling & stealing |
| Have You Seen Her | The Chi-Lites | eyes & sight |
| Havoc in Heaven | Jesca Hoop | paradise |
| Hazy Shade of Winter | The Bangles | covers by the opposite sex |
| HBCU There | Griot B | higher education |
| He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother | The Hollies | empathy |
| He Brings Out the Whiskey in Me | Amy Millan | whiskey |
| He Can Surely Turn the Tide | Johnny Osbourne | nightingales & thrushes |
| He Had a Long Chain On | Jimmy Driftwood | kindness |
| He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) | The Crystals | violence |
| He Miss Road | Fela Kuti | long songs |
| He Never Raced on Sunday | Otis Taylor | competition |
| He Shall Feed His Flock (from the Messiah) | George Frideric Handel | Jesus |
| He Stopped Loving Her Today | George Jones | futility |
| He Was a Big Freak | Betty Davis | offensive, insulting songs |
| He Was Really Sayin’ Somethin’ | The Velvelettes | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics |
| He Was the King | Neil Young | Elvis |
| He Who Picks a Rose | The Temptations | roses |
| Head | Prince | sexy songs |
| Head Hang Low | Julian Cope | oddballs, outcasts & outsiders |
| Head Like a Hole | Nine Inch Nails | holes |
| Head of the Table | Joan Armatrading | leadership |
| Head Over Heels | The Manhattan Love Suicides | close shaves & near misses |
| Head Shoulders Knees & Toes | Ofenbach & Quarterhead ft Norma Jean Martine | bodily motion & exercise |
| The Head That Controls Both Right and Left Sides Eats Meats and Slobbers Even Today | Bleach | arresting opening lines |
| A Head with Wings | Morphine | wings |
| Headache for Michelle | Au Pairs | surveillance |
| Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! | Babymetal | doors |
| Headbanger Face | A.R.E. Weapons | faces |
| Headlights on the Parade | The Blue Nile | parades |
| Headline Hustler | 10cc | journalism & the news |
| Headline News | Edwin Starr | reading |
| The Headmaster Ritual | The Smiths | school |
| Headphones | Björk | ears & hearing |
| Heal Me | Sarah Shook & the Disarmers | redemption |
| The Healer | Erykah Badu | healing |
| The Healer | John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana | healing |
| Healing Hands | Citizen Cope | hands |
| Healing with Turmeric | Dhol Foundation | flavour |
| Heaps of Sheeps | Robert Wyatt | sleep & insomnia |
| Hear | Moonpools & Caterpillars | ears & hearing |
| Hear My Train A-Comin’ | Jimi Hendrix | ears & hearing |
| Hear Our Prayer | Ladysmith Black Mambazo | prayer |
| Heard About Your Band | Brakes | boastful songs |
| Heart Disease Called Love | John Cooper Clarke | Manchester |
| Heart Like a Wheel | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | the heart |
| Heart of Glass | Blondie | the heart |
| Heart of the City | Dave Edmunds | Welsh songs |
| Heart-Shaped Box | Nirvana | bags & containers |
| Heartbeat | Annie | the heart |
| Heartbeat | Wire | the heart |
| Heartbeats | José González | covers better than the original |
| Heartbeats | The Knife | great keyboards |
| Heartbreak Beat | The Psychedelic Furs | forgotten follow-ups |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Elvis Presley | buildings |
| Hearts and Crosses | Heavenly | bright songs about dark subjects |
| Hearts on Fire | Gram Parsons | great backing vocals |
| Heartstopper | Emilíana Torrini | coffee |
| Heat | Dana Bryant | perspiration |
| Heat Treatment | Graham Parker | heat #2 |
| Heat Wave | Martha and the Vandellas | heat |
| Heaven | Pere Ubu | influenced by reggae |
| Heaven | Talking Heads | heaven & hell |
| Heaven and Hell | Black Sabbath | sinners |
| Heaven and Hell | Raekwon | heaven & hell |
| Heaven at Once | Kool & the Gang | dialogue |
| Heaven in Pennies | Esperanza Spalding ft Robert Glasper | coins |
| Heaven Is a Halfpipe | OPM | religion |
| Heaven Is a Place on Earth | Belinda Carlisle | heaven & hell |
| Heaven Is Empty | Aldous Harding | paradise |
| Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now | The Smiths | work |
| Heaven or Las Vegas | Cocteau Twins | American west |
| Heavenly Nobodies | Lush | hero worship |
| Heavy Balloon | Fiona Apple | resilience |
| Heavy Cross | Gossip | crosses |
| Heavy Doctor | Thee Oh Sees | doctors |
| Heavy Horses | Jethro Tull | horses |
| Heavy Is the Head | Zac Brown Band ft Chris Connell | crowns |
| Heavy Metal Drummer | Wilco | music genres |
| Hedi’s Head | Kleenex | underrated artists |
| Heligoland | Overseer | islands |
| Britain |
| Heliopolis by Night | Aberfeldy | bright and beautiful |
| Hell | James Brown | heaven & hell |
| Hell Broke Luce | Tom Waits | army |
| He’ll Have to Go | Jim Reeves | volume |
| Hell Is Chrome | Wilco | the afterlife |
| Hell Is Round the Corner | Tricky | interlopers |
| (He’ll Never Be An) Old Man River | TISM | tragedy & comedy |
| Hellfudge | Lard | religion |
| Hellhound on My Trail | Robert Johnson | great songwriting 1900-1955 |
| Hello | Dan Zanes & Barbara Brousal | hello |
| Hello Hello, I’m Back Again | Gary Glitter | hello |
| Hello, I Love You | The Doors | hello |
| Hello in There | John Prine | indifference |
| Hello It’s Me | Lou Reed & John Cale | remembrance songs |
| Hello It’s Me | Todd Rundgren | visitors |
| Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah | Alan Sherman | accents |
| Hello Operator | The White Stripes | letters, emails & telegrams |
| Hello! Orange Sunshine | Judy and Mary | orange |
| Hello There | John Cale | hello |
| The Hellraisers | Tyla J. Pallas | songs that fit every topic |
| Hell’s Bells | AC/DC | heaven & hell |
| Hell’s Itch | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | itching & scratching |
| Help! | The Beatles | immaturity |
| Help Is Coming | Crowded House | migrants & refugees |
| Help Me Get Over This | Breathless | never |
| Help Me, Rhonda | The Beach Boys | different 7″ versions |
| Help the Aged | Pulp | getting older |
| Helplessly Hoping | Crosby, Stills & Nash | patterns & sequences |
| Helplessly Hoping | Richie Havens | alliteration |
| Helter Skelter | The Beatles | fairgrounds |
| Henrietta Longbottom | Felt | gossip |
| Henry Lee | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ft PJ Harvey | jealousy |
| rejection |
| Hentai | Rosalía | orgasms |
| Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles | Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band | blue |
| Her Way of Praying | The Jesus and Mary Chain | prayer |
| Hercules | Mercury Rev | ancient history |
| Hercules | Aaron Neville | named after men |
| Here Come the Girls | Ernie K-Doe | from New Orleans |
| Here Come the Warm Jets | Brian Eno | indecipherable songs |
| Here Comes Alice | The Jesus and Mary Chain | non-alcoholic drinks |
| Here Comes Flash | The Kinks | villains |
| Here Comes Geordie | Richard Thompson | North East England |
| Here Comes That Man Again | Kirsty MacColl | switches & buttons |
| Here Comes That Song Again | Roy Orbison | jukeboxes |
| Here Comes the Flood | Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel | natural disasters |
| Here Comes the Sun | The Beatles | anticipation |
| Here Comes the Sun | Nina Simone | the sun |
| Here Goes Something | Nada Surf | gravity |
| Here I Am | Lyle Lovett | meat |
| Here I Come | Barrington Levy | showing off |
| Here I Go | Syd Barrett | upbeat break-up |
| Here I Go Again | Whitesnake | departures |
| Here in Heaven | Sparks | death |
| Here, There and Everywhere | Emmylou Harris | Beatles covers |
| Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | Gang Starr | impermanence |
| Here We Come A-Wassailing | The Watersons | new year |
| (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree | The Move | nursery rhymes |
| Here’s Looking at You, Kid | The Gaslight Anthem | without a chorus |
| Here’s the Tender Coming | The Unthanks | adversity |
| Here’s to Old England | Luke Haines | England |
| Here’s to the State of Mississippi | Phil Ochs | rejection |
| Here’s Where the Story Ends | The Sundays | finishing |
| Hermit the Frog | Marina and the Diamonds | secrets |
| Hermod’s Ride to Hel – Lokes Treachery Part I | Amon Amarth | fantasy |
| Hero | Neu! | out-of-tune songs |
| Hero of the War | Scott Walker | hero worship |
| Hero of War | Rise Against | army |
| Herod 2014 | Scott Walker & Sunn O))) | deep voices |
| “Heroes” | David Bowie | obstacles |
| album tracks better than singles |
| “Heroes” (Aphex Twin Remix) | Philip Glass | scary songs |
| Heroes | Jill Sobule | hero worship |
| Heroes and Villains | The Beach Boys | close harmony singing |
| Heroin | The Velvet Underground | volume changes |
| Herr Drosselmeyer’s Doll | Abney Park | machinery, industry & technology |
| Herring Girl | Bella Hardy | sharp objects |
| Herring Song | Eliza Carthy | fish & other aquatic life |
| He’s a Bad Boy | Carole King | villains |
| He’s a High Class Physician | Marion Williams | doctors |
| He’s a Rebel | The Crystals | youth cults |
| He’s a Tramp | Peggy Lee | famous or notable animals |
| He’s an Oddball | The Lewis Sisters | oddballs, outcasts & outsiders |
| He’s Gone | Grateful Dead | acceptance |
| He’s Gonna Step on You Again | John Kongos | bad boys & bad girls |
| He’s Got His Eyes on You | Reverend D. C. Rice & his Sanctified Congregation | eyes & sight |
| He’s Just a Scientist | Connie Francis | obsolete things |
| He’s Making a Tape | Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire | media for listening to recorded music |
| He’s Misstra Know-It-All | Stevie Wonder | confidence |
| He’s on the Beach | Kirsty MacColl | the Commonwealth |
| He’s on the Phone | Saint Etienne ft Étienne Daho | telephones |
| He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot | Grandaddy | being lost |
| He’s So Fine | The Chiffons | secret admirers |
| He’s the Greatest Dancer | Sister Sledge | nightclubs |
| Hey | Pixies | pick-up lines & marriage proposals |
| Hey Boy, Hey Girl | The Chemical Brothers | two – part 2 |
| Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat | Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band | clothes |
| Hey, Good Lookin’ | Hank Williams | pick-up lines & marriage proposals |
| Hey Ho on the Devil’s Back | Katzenjammer | mythical beasts |
| Hey Jack Kerouac | 10,000 Maniacs | tribute songs |
| writing |
| Hey Jean Hey Dean | Dean and Jean | hedonism |
| Hey Joe | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | guns |
| Hey Joe | The Leaves | criminals |
| Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go | Daniel Johnston | the Beatles |
| Hey Jude | The Beatles | na-na-hey-hey songs |
| Hey Jude | Wilson Pickett | Beatles covers |
| Hey Leroy, Your Mama’s Callin’ You | Jimmy Castor | saxophone |
| Hey Nineteen | Steely Dan | getting older |
| Hey! Sandy | Harvey Andrews | songs that capture the zeitgeist |
| Hey Self Defeater | Mark Mulcahy | consolation |
| Hey Sexy | Die Antwoord | hello |
| Hey Stoopid | Alice Cooper | stupidity |
| Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye | Leonard Cohen | goodbye |
| (Hey There) Big Bad Wolf | The Sham-Ettes | fairytales |
| Hey, Western Union Man | Jerry Butler | letters, emails & telegrams |
| Hey Ya! | OutKast | handclaps |
| Hi Ho Silver Lining | Jeff Beck | ‘high’ songs |
| Hi Ren | Ren | id, ego & superego |
| Hi Roller | Little Feat | playing cards |
| Hi, We’re the Support Band | Tim Rogers & the Twin Set | music industry |
| Hickory, Walnut & Pine | The Po’ Rambin’ Boys | brown |
| Hickory Wind | The Byrds | trees |
| The Hidden Camera | Photek | surveillance |
| Hidden Well | Acoustic Guitars | wells |
| Hideaway | Erasure | rejection |
| High by the Beach | Lana Del Rey | ‘high’ songs |
| High Hopes | Frank Sinatra & Eddie Hodges | children performing |
| The High Monkey-Monk | Cocteau Twins | monkeys & apes |
| High Priced Woman | John Lee Hooker | maps |
| High Priestess | Santigold | preachers, priests & religious leaders |
| High Rise | Hawkwind | buildings |
| High School Confidential | Jerry Lee Lewis | jukeboxes |
| High Tide or Low Tide | Bob Marley & the Wailers | tides |
| Highdown Fair | Angelo Branduardi | patterns & sequences |
| Higher Ground | Stevie Wonder | redemption |
| Higher State of Consciousness | Josh Wink | ‘high’ songs |
| Higher Than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts) | Primal Scream | the sun |
| The Higher the Monkey Climbs | Justin Hinds & the Dominoes | proverbs |
| Higher Wall | New Model Army | interlopers |
| Highly Strung | Van der Graaf Generator | rhythm, beat & boogie |
| Highway 49 | Howlin’ Wolf | road trips |
| Highway 61 Revisited | Bob Dylan | arresting opening lines |
| Highway Blues | Savoy Brown | hitchhiking |
| Highway Kind | Townes Van Zandt | itinerants & migration |
| Highway Patrolman | Bruce Springsteen | siblings |
| Highway to Hell | AC/DC | the afterlife |
| Highwayman | The Highwaymen | immortality & longevity |
| The Highwayman | Loreena McKennitt | outlaws & rebels |
| Highwomen | The Highwomen | supergroups |
| Hikaru Toki (When You Shine) | Hitsujibungaku | legacy |
| Hiljainen kylätie | Metro-tytöt | villages |
| Hill Street Blues | Mike Post & Larry Carlton | law enforcement |
| Hilly Fields (1892) | Nick Nicely | parks |
| Himininn er að hrynja en stjörnurnar fara þér vel | Ólafur Arnalds | remembrance songs |
| Hindewhu | Ba-Benzélé Pygmies | flutes, pipes & whistles |
| Hip Hop | Mos Def | youth cults |
| Hip Priest | The Fall | volume changes |
| Hip to Be Square | Huey Lewis & the News | coolness |
| Hippopotamus | Desmond Dekker | gravity |
| Hippopotamus | Sparks | strange, rare or unlikely words |
| Hips Don’t Lie | Shakira ft Wyclef Jean | joints of the body |
| His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin | Carly Simon | charisma |
| The Hissing of Summer Lawns | Joni Mitchell | trees, grass & flowers |
| Historia de las Sillas | Silvio Rodríguez | chairs |
| History | The Woodentops | bad decisions |
| History Eraser | Courtney Barnett | accents |
| History Has Its Eyes on You | Christopher Jackson & Lin-Manuel Miranda | legacy |
| History Lesson | Nicolas Jaar | tragedy & comedy |
| History Lesson Part II | Minutemen | self-referential songs |
| A History of Sport Fishing | Thee More Shallows | misleading or incongruous titles |
| History Repeating | Propellerheads ft Shirley Bassey | collaborations & side projects |
| regressing & reversing |
| Hit | The Sugarcubes | seduction |
| Hit and Miss (Jukebox Jury Theme) | John Barry Seven Plus Four | jukeboxes |
| Hit ‘Em Up | Tupac Shakur | hatchet jobs |
| Hit Me with Your Best Shot | Pat Benatar | dares |
| Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick | Ian Dury & the Blockheads | the Commonwealth |
| Hit That Perfect Beat | Bronski Beat | perfection |
| Hit the Lights | Metallica | debut songs |
| Hit the North | The Fall | northern England |
| Hit the Switch | Bright Eyes | domestic songs |
| Hitch a Ride | Boston | hitchhiking |
| Hitch Hike | Marvin Gaye | physical gestures |
| Hitch Hikin’ | Bruce Springsteen | hitchhiking |
| Hitchin’ a Ride | Vanity Fare | hitchhiking |
| Hitler | Eek-A-Mouse | tyranny & dictatorship |
| Hitting You | Loudon Wainwright III | regrets |
| Hob | Richard Dawson | mythical beasts |
| Hobbin and A Bobbin | The Ragamuffins ft Bob Andy | winter sports |
| Hobbit Motherfuckers | Turbonegro | misanthropic songs |
| Hobo Heaven | The Groanbox Boys | suicide |
| Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe | Whale | from Nordic countries |
| Hockey | Jane Siberry | winter |
| The Hockey Song | Stompin’ Tom Connors | winter sports |
| Hocus Pocus | Focus | songs that express excess |
| Hog Callin’ Blues | Charles Mingus | onomatopoeia |
| Hola Soledad | Sandra Carrasco | personification |
| Hold Me | K. T. Oslin | decisive songs |
| Hold Me Close (Underground) | The Beautiful South | basements & underground |
| Hold On | En Vogue | close harmony singing |
| Hold On, Hold On | Neko Case | echoes |
| Hold On, I’m Coming | Sam & Dave | great drumming |
| Hold On to Me | The Black Sorrows | treasure |
| Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It | Stars | gifts & giving |
| Hold Up | Beyoncé | adultery & infidelity |
| Hold Your Head Up | Argent | confidence |
| Hold Your Own | Kate Tempest | songs offering advice |
| Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks | The Brunettes | urban wildlife |
| The Hole | Townes Van Zandt | caves |
| Hole in the Bucket | Spearhead | pockets |
| Holes | Mercury Rev | odd noises & instruments |
| Holes to Heaven | Jack Johnson | holes |
| Holiday | Happy Mondays | holidays |
| Holiday for Strings | Spike Jones & his City Slickers | laughter |
| Holiday in Cambodia | Dead Kennedys | Asia |
| Holiday in Waikiki | The Kinks | holidays |
| Holidays | The Beach Boys | fictional adverts |
| Holland, 1945 | Neutral Milk Hotel | places in Europe |
| Hollow Talk | Choir of Young Believers | from Nordic countries |
| Hollywood | Erykah Badu | Hollywood |
| Hollywood | Guy Clark | Hollywood |
| Hollywood | Cluster | krautrock |
| Hollywood | Codeine Velvet Club | Hollywood |
| Hollywood | Lana Del Rey | Hollywood |
| Hollywood | Brigitte Fontaine | Hollywood |
| Hollywood Divorce | OutKast ft Lil Wayne & Snoop Dogg | actors |
| Hollywood (Down on Your Luck) | Thin Lizzy | luck |
| Hollywood Hopeful | Loudon Wainwright III | Hollywood |
| Hollywood Lawn | Jenny Lewis | Hollywood |
| Hollywood Nights | Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band | Hollywood |
| Holocaust | Big Star | mothers |
| Holy Forest | Pinkshinyultrablast | surprising intros |
| Homburg | Procol Harum | hats & accessories |
| Home Again | Edwyn Collins | coming home |
| Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever | Woodpigeon | long titles |
| Home Computer | Kraftwerk | machines, robots & computers |
| Home, Home on the Range | Neil Young | American west |
| Home Is Where the Hatred Is | Gil Scott-Heron | home |
| Home Is Where the Heart Is | Lene Lovich | reunions |
| Home Is Where the Heart Is | Bobby Womack | proverbs |
| Home of the Brave | Bonnie and the Treasures | freedom |
| Home of the Whale | Massive Attack | cetaceans |
| The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces of Law and Order | McCarthy | law enforcement |
| Home Sweet Home (…At Christmas) | Viv Albertine | reunions |
| Home to Myself | Melissa Manchester | being single |
| Homegrown Tomatoes | Guy Clark | the obvious |
| Homely Girl | The Chi-Lites | schadenfreude |
| Hometown Farewell Kiss | The Triffids | revenge |
| Homeward Bound | Simon & Garfunkel | home |
| Homosapien | Pete Shelley | homosexuality |
| Honaloochie Boogie | Mott the Hoople | rhythm, beat & boogie |
| An Honest Mistake | The Bravery | misunderstanding |
| Honey Bones | Dope Lemon | psychedelic songs |
| Honey for the Bees | Alison Moyet | bees |
| Honeybee | The Unthanks | bees |
| The Honeymooners | Lucky Jim | gifts & giving |
| Hong Kong | Screamin’ Jay Hawkins | Asia |
| Honky Tonk | Miles Davis | puzzling & mysterious |
| Hook Head | Irish Lights | lighthouses & guiding lights |
| Hooked on Junk | k.d. lang & the Reclines | trash |
| Hookin’ Meh | Invaders Steel Orchestra | steelpan |
| Hoover Factory | Elvis Costello | buildings |
| Hop, Skip and Jump | Roy Milton & His Solid Senders | jumping |
| Hope | Bauhaus | hope |
| Hope | Björk | suicide |
| Hope | Arlo Parks | hope |
| Hope Is the Last Thing to Die | David Holmes ft Raven Violet | hope |
| Hope She’ll Be Happier | Bill Withers | disappointment |
| Hope Street, Tomorrow Afternoon | Robb Johnson | hope |
| Hope There’s Someone | Antony and the Johnsons | songs that make you cry |
| Hoping Machine | Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker & Yim Yames | persistence |
| Hopopono | GoGo Penguin | great keyboards |
| Hopping Down in Kent / My Lovely Hops | Mary Ann Haynes | September & October |
| Hoppípolla | Sigur Rós | multilingual songs |
| Horizon | Cat Power | horizons |
| Horizon | Rachael Yamagata | horizons |
| Hormones | Tracey Thorn | opposites |
| Horror Movie | Skyhooks | news & media |
| The Horse | Cliff Nobles & Co. | animals |
| A Horse in the Country | Cowboy Junkies | horses |
| Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier | Corb Lund | horses |
| Horse with a Freeze Pts 1&2 | Roy Ward | stop-start songs |
| A Horse with No Name | America | wilderness |
| Horse with No Name | Horace Andy | deserts |
| Horseshoe Woman | Caracol | iron & steel |
| Hosanna in Excelsis | Sabbat | army |
| Hospital | The Modern Lovers | buildings |
| Hospital Food | Eels | hospitals |
| Hospital (Win Your Love) | Jesca Hoop | nursing & healthcare |
| Hot Barbeque | Brother Jack McDuff | meals & mealtimes |
| Hot Black Silk | Songs: Ohia | rough & smooth |
| Hot Buttered Rum | Tom Fogerty | cocktails & spirits |
| Hot Chocolate | Shonen Knife | non-alcoholic drinks |
| Hot Chocolate Boy | Beat Happening | non-alcoholic drinks |
| Hot for Teacher | Van Halen | education |
| Hot Fun in the Summertime | Sly and the Family Stone | heat |
| Hot Head | Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band | heat |
| Hot Heels | Barbara Moore | wordless vocals |
| Hot in Herre | Nelly | heat #2 |
| Hot Milk | Jackie Mittoo | non-alcoholic drinks |
| Hot n Cold | Katy Perry | driving songs |
| Hot Pants | James Brown | fads & crazes |
| Hot Pants | Alan Hawkshaw and Alan Parker | clothes |
| Hot Pink | Let’s Eat Grandma | pink |
| Hot Pink | Meat Puppets | pink |
| The Hot Rock | Quincy Jones | precious stones |
| Hot Rod Hotel | Billy Bragg & Wilco | hotels |
| Hot Runes | The Fall | months of the year |
| Hot Soft Light | The Hold Steady | hospitals |
| Hot Stuff | Donna Summer | evening |
| Hot Topic | Le Tigre | list songs |
| oddballs, outcasts & outsiders |
| Hotel California | Eagles | hotels |
| Hotel Happiness | Brook Benton | hotels |
| Hotel Room | Richard Hawley | hotels |
| Hots for the Smarts | Richard Thompson | the brain |
| Hound Dog | Big Mama Thornton | lesser known originals |
| Hounds of Love | Kate Bush | fear |
| The House | Air Traffic Controller | family |
| House at Pooh Corner | Loggins and Messina | bears |
| House Burning Down | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | notable outros or codas |
| House for Sale | Lucifer | moving on |
| A House Is Not a Home | Luther Vandross | vibrato, tremolo & oscillations |
| A House Is Not a Home | Dionne Warwick | chairs |
| The House of Blue Lights | Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse with Don Raye | nightclubs |
| House of Circles | Mr. Gnome | circles |
| House of Fun | Madness | anticipation |
| House of Jansch | Donovan | tribute songs |
| House of Mirrors | David McCallum | mirrors |
| House of the Gods | The Pogues | beer |
| House of the King | Focus | TV theme songs |
| The House of the Rising Sun | The Animals | advice |
| House on the Hill | Kevin Coyne | mental illness |
| House Party | Fred Wesley | parties & going out |
| The House That Jack Built | Aretha Franklin | buildings |
| Housework | The B-52s | spring cleaning & household chores |
| Housework | Robert Palmer | spring cleaning & household chores |
| How a Resurrection Really Feels | The Hold Steady | resurrection |
| How Beautiful You Are… | The Cure | misunderstanding |
| How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live | Blind Alfred Reed | poverty |
| How Can I Be Sure | David Cassidy | confidence |
| How Can I Keep from Singing? | Enya | singing |
| How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away? | Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks | missing someone |
| How Can I Protect You? | Alabama 3 | asking, begging & pleading |
| How Can I Tell Him | Jens Lekman | platonic love |
| How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? | Al Green | influenced by gospel |
| How Come | Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance | playing cards |
| How Come It Never Rains | The Dogs D’Amour | songs that fit every topic |
| How Come My Dog Don’t Bark (When You Come Around) | Dr. John | substitutions |
| How Come That Blood | Sam Amidon | blood |
| How Deep Is Your Love | Bee Gees | slow, sexy love songs |
| How Do You Keep the Music Playing? | Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge | everlasting love |
| How Do You Sleep? | John Lennon | hatchet jobs |
| How Does It Feel to Feel | The Creation | questions |
| How D’Ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning | Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell | eggs |
| How I Wrote Elastic Man | The Fall | writing |
| How Is the Weather in Paris | Alain Romans | hammer & mallet instruments |
| How Long Has This Been Going On? | Ella Fitzgerald | eureka moments |
| How Long Has This Been Going On | Carmen McRae | arresting opening lines |
| How Many More Years | Howlin’ Wolf | great songwriting 1900-1955 |
| How Sad, How Lovely | Connie Converse | brevity |
| How Soon Is Now? | The Smiths | B sides |
| How Sweet to Be an Idiot | Neil Innes | self-deprecation |
| How the Love Gets In | Thea Gilmore | positive songs |
| How the Stars Were Made | Michael Askill | stars |
| How to Be a Millionaire | ABC | money |
| How to Be Invisible | Kate Bush | the invisible |
| How to Make a Chandelier | Animals That Swim | glass |
| How to Make Gravy | Paul Kelly | recipe songs |
| How to Roll a Blunt | Redman | smoking |
| How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise? | Brother D with Collective Effort | positive songs |
| How You Gonna Get Respect (When You Haven’t Cut Your Process Yet) | Hank Ballard & the Dapps | hair |
| How You Learn to Live Alone | Mary Gauthier | being single |
| However Much I Booze | The Who | failure |
| H’tuom Tuhs Part 1 | The Missing Links | psychedelic songs |
| Huddersfield Town | Roger Davies | Yorkshire |
| A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld | The Orb | long titles |
| Huge Tree in the Tsukamori Forest | Joe Hisaishi | forests & woodlands |
| The Hum | Margo Guryan | humming |
| Human | The Human League | forgiveness |
| Human, All Too Fucking Human | Anaal Nathrakh | misanthropic songs |
| Human Beings | !Action Pact! | misunderstanding |
| Human Cannonball | Loudon Wainwright III | the circus |
| The Human Element | Reflection Eternal | prisons |
| Human Fly | The Cramps | Halloween |
| The Human Germ | Snog | wastelands |
| Humdrum Blues | Oscar Brown Jr. | boredom |
| Humeaban las Chozas | Arcángel | homelessness |
| Hummingbird | B.B. King | one word titles |
| Humpty Dumpty | Aimee Mann | eggs |
| A Hundred Years from Today | Sarah Vaughan | anniversaries |
| Hunger Song | The Middle East | stomach & guts |
| Hungry Planet | The Byrds | environment |
| Hunros | Gwenno | harpsichord |
| The Hunter | Albert King | following & chasing |
| The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game | Grace Jones | ironic songs |
| The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game | The Marvelettes | hunting |
| Hunting for Witches | Bloc Party | confusion & delusion |
| The Hunting Song | Pentangle | hunting |
| Hunting the Hare | Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts | a cappella |
| Hunting the Squirrel | The Gloaming | searching & seeking |
| Hurdy Gurdy Man | Donovan | musical instruments |
| The Hurlers | Seth Lakeman | rare events |
| Hurricane | Bob Dylan | murder |
| Hurricane | Lin-Manuel Miranda | writing |
| Hurricane Room | The Blessing | the Commonwealth |
| Hurricane Season | Trombone Shorty | storms |
| Hurt | Johnny Cash | covers better than the original |
| Hurt | Nine Inch Nails | recreational drugs |
| Hurt So Good | Susan Cadogan | channelling pain |
| Hush | Deep Purple | silence |
| Hush | Tool | stubbornness |
| Hush Little Baby | Nina Simone | babies & childbirth |
| Husna | Hitesh Sonik ft Piyush Mishra | long-distance relationships |
| The Hustler | Willie Colón | from New York City |
| Hymn (Live 1980) | Barclay James Harvest | ascension |
| The Hymn for the Cigarettes | Hefner | smoking |
| Hymn of the Big Wheel | Massive Attack | spinning |
| Hyperballad | Björk | faith |
| Hys | Yapoos | confusion & delusion |
| Hysteria | The Partisans | confusion & delusion |