Music, Notated
Processed by: Franz S. Young, December 2010.
Catalog ID number: 001693972
First line of text: Before our lovely dove of peace will dare to show its noodle
First line of chorus: Do it was and do it is and ever will be do, 'till every foe has cried enough to Yankee Doodle-Doo
Copyright: Agnes Gilbert Bacon.
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Copyright: Ernest S. Williams.
Note: Advertisements on page [2] and back for music published by Walter Jacobs.
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First line of text: In Maryland, in Maryland, there's a mother old and gray
First line of chorus: Your granddad fought in the war of sixty-one, he wore a suit of grey
Note: Advertisement on pages [5 and 6] for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: In Maryland, in Maryland, there's a mother old and gray
First line of chorus: Your granddad fought in the war of sixty-one, he wore a suit of grey
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: Now the time has come to leave, mother mine, you must promise not to grieve, mother mine
First line of chorus: Goodbye, Mother Machree, dry your tears and keep on smiling
Note: Advertisement on pages 2, 3, and back for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: Our forefathers came across the sea, pioneered the way to liberty
First line of chorus: If the time should come when we must go to war, you'll be there.
Note: Advertisements for other music on pages 2, 3, 4, [5] and back for M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: Goodbye New York town, goodbye Miss Liberty, your light of freedom will guide us across the sea
First line of chorus: Goodbye Broadway, Hello France, we're ten million strong
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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First line of text: Rose of Belgium, drooping so low, Lift up your head, for we love you so
First line of chorus: Belgian rose, my drooping Belgian rose, for ev'ry hour of sorrow you've had, you'll have a year in which to be glad
Note: This is a War Edition, smaller in size "to co-operate with the Government and to conserve paper during the War."
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
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First line of text: Rose of Belgium, drooping so low, Lift up your head, for we love you so
First line of chorus: Belgian rose, my drooping Belgian rose, for ev'ry hour of sorrow you've had, you'll have a year in which to be glad
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
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Dedicatee: the Daughters of the American Revolution and all patriots.
First line of text: Flag of our country, it waves o'er land and sea, emblem of freedom, of righteous liberty
First line of chorus: Tis our flag, the free flag, its honor tried and true
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First line of text: We know you love your land of liberty, we know you love your U.S.A.
First line of chorus: It's your country, it's my country, with millions of real fighting men
Note: Advertisement on back for I'm all bound round with the Mason Dixon Line / music by Jean Schwarz ; words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young.
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First line of text: Johnny Jones was a first class private in the army last year
First line of chorus: I've got the guy who used to be my captain working for me
Note: Advertisement on back for The hand that rocked by cradle rules my heart / by Irving Berlin.
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First line of text: Peace has always been our pray'r, Now there's trouble in the air
First line of chorus: It's up to you, what will you do?
Note: Advertisement on back for For me and my gal / words by Edgar Leslie and E. Ray Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer.
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First line of text: The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine
First line of chorus: Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning, oh, how I'd like to remain in bed
Note: Advertisement on back for American beauty / by Alfred Bryan, Edgar Leslie & M.K. Jerome.
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First line of text: The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine
First line of chorus: Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning, oh, how I'd like to remain in bed
Note: performed by Bob Hall.
Note: Advertisement on back for At half past nine / words by Sam Lewis & Joe Young ; music by Archie Gottler.
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First line of text: My lovin' baby, my lovin' baby, you better dry your eyes and don't be grievin'
First line of chorus: I've got to go, I've got to go, a soldier man I've got to be
Note: Advertisement on back for When I'm thinking of you / words and music by Irving Berlin.
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First line of text: I left my darling the other day, we started quarreling, I went away
First line of chorus: All that worries me, is someone else may be there, while I'm gone
Note: Advertisement on back for The Dixie volunteers / by Edgar Leslie and Harry Ruby.
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First line of text: On a ship at night, under stars so bright, stood two soldiers side by side
First line of chorus: Good-bye dear sweetheart Farewell to you
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by The Berry Publishing Co.
Note: sung by Miss Mable Withee, sold in aid of the Great War Veterans' Association.
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First line of text: Ev'ry one's excidted, let us get united, shoulder arms to crush the foe
First line of chorus: When the clouds of war roll by, I'll come marching home to you
Note: Advertisement on back for Somewhere a heart is breaking and callming me back to you / words by Milton Weil ; music by Leo Friedman.
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Dedicatee: W.B.B.
First line of text: She was just a dimpled baby, yet a troubled look she wore, as one tiny finger pointed to a flag above the door
First line of chorus: The gold star shines the brightest, but it makes my mamma sad
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Buck & Lowney.
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First line of text: While cannons roar and thunder far across the deep blue sea, there's a little girl at home whose heart is breaking
First line of chorus: When the Russian army stand and fight united one and all, then I'll come back to you
Note: Advertisement on back for There's a Long long trail / lyric by Stoddard King ; music by Zo Elliot.
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Dedicatee: the Red Cross nurse.
First line of text: I've seen some beautiful flowers, grow in life's garden fair
First line of chorus: There's a rose that grows on no man's land, and it's wonderful to see
Copyright: Jack Mendelsohn Music Company.
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First line of text: I've seen some beautiful flowers, grow in life's garden fair
First line of chorus: There's a rose that grows on no man's land, and it's wonderful to see
Note: Patriotic war edition.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
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First line of text: Oh John, pack up your kit and come along with me, There's a party 'cross the sea
First line of chorus: And we're all going calling on the Kaiser, for we've got to teach the Kaiser to be wiser
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo Feist, Inc.
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First line of text: A little lad of six one day climbed on his father's knee
First line of chorus: U means union forever, N is our Navy so bold
Note: Advertisement on page [2] and back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co.
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First line of text: Dark clouds gather in the eastern sky, people are excited ev'rywhere
First line of chorus: Go right along Mister Wilson, we're all for you strong
Note: Advertisement on back for My tom tom man / lyric by Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
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First line of text: What's that tune I hear, a ringing in my ear
First line of chorus: When Alexander takes his ragtime band to France, He'll capture ev'ry Hun, and take them one by one
Note: Advertisement on back for For the two of us / words by Edgar Leslie; music by Harry Ruby.
Note: Advertisement on page 2 for food rationing.
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First line of text: We always though you a fickle coquette, girl of France
First line of chorus: Girls of France, girls of France, we're mighty proud of you
Note: Advertisement on back for I hate to lose you I'm so used to you now / words by Grant Clarke ; music by Archie Gottler.
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First line of text: Oh my heart is true red white and blue, I am very proud to say
First line of chorus: Hooray Hooray for the U.S.A., America the land of freedom is the place for me and always will be
Note: Advertisement on back for American Public Rights Association.
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First line of text: They say it's in the Heaven that all Angels dwell, but I've come to learn they're on earth just as well
First line of chorus: A sweet little Angel that went o'er the sea, with the emblem of God in her hand
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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First line of text: You've heard all about your raggy melodies, ev'ry thing from opera down to melodies
First line of chorus: Ja da, ja da, ja da jing jing jing
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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Dedicatee: Foley, Lieut. Joseph.
First line of text: If you read our history, why it will show, that we have always held our own with any kind of foe
First line of chorus: We don't want the bacon, we don't want the bacon, what we want is a piece of the Rhine
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First line of text: Tipperary Tommy was a soldier boy, brave as any lad could be
First line of chorus: Tip-top Tipperary Mary, I love you true, Tip-Top Tipperary Mary, My love's true as your eyes of blue
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
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First line of text: I'm blue thru and thru, and I don't know what to do
First line of chorus: There's the Fatherland, the Motherland, and the land of my best girl
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
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First line of text: The other day I chanced to roam beside an old log cabin home
First line of chorus: I'm a comin', I'm a comin' and I'm mighty proud to go
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co.
Note: "Loyalty is the word of the day" advertisement runner on bottom of page two, and a food rationing advertisement on the back.
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First line of text: Do you see your country's flag, soldier boy, soldier boy
First line of chorus: They are marching to the beating of the drum's deep boom
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Churchill-Grindell Co.
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First line of text: Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, take it on the run, on the run, on the run
First line of chorus: Over there, over there, send the word, send the world over there
Note: Advertisement on back for I'll come back to you when it's all over / [music by] Kerry Mills; words by Lew Brown.
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First line of text: Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, take it on the run, on the run, on the run
First line of chorus: Over there, over there, send the word, swend the word over there
Note: Advertisement on back for Cotton pickin' time in Alabam / words by Harold Cool ; music by Arthur J. Daly.
Note: successfully introduced by Nora Bayes.
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Dedicatee: McFarlane, George
First line of text: From 'Frisco Bay to old Broadway, today all over the U.S.A.
First line of chorus: When you come back, if you do come back, you'll hear the Yankee cry
Note: Advertisement on back for Kiss me again / lyric by Henry Blossom ; written by Victor Herbert.
Note: Advertisement inside for food rationing.
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First line of text: Rosie Green was a village queen, who enlisted as a nurse
First line of chorus: Oh, Frenchy, oh Frenchy, Frenchy, although your language is so new to me
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Broadway Music Company.
Note: Advertisement on back for food rationing.
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First line of text: The boys of sev'n-ty-six are only mem'ries now, the loyal, brave and true in Continental blue
First line of chorus: Uncle Sammy's soldiers of the sea, Uncle Sammy's boys in brown
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: My mother loved my Daddy and she loved her country too
First line of chorus: My mother raised her boy to be a soldier, my mother raised a patriotic boy
Note: Advertisement on page [2] and back for poetry by Capt. Jack Crawford.
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Dedicatee: "our boys."
First line of text: The victory's won, the war is o'er, our boys are coming home
First line of chorus: We welcome you, our boys so true, in khaki and in blue
Copyright: Carl O. Dahlén.
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First line of text: On a cold, dark night in a frontline trench crouched a solider in the rain
First line of chorus: Oh, I want to go back to Blighty, I want to go back tonight
Note: Advertisements on page 2 and [8] for music published by Chappell & Co., Ltd.
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First line of text: The toys that brought joy to her little boy are scattered about on the floor
First line of chorus: There's a little grey mother who waits all alone, in a chill dreary spot that was once home, sweet home
Note: Advertisements for other music on page [5] and back for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: I'se got a gal an' you got none, li'l Liza Jane
First line of chorus: Ohe Liza, li'l Liza Jane, Ev'y mawnin' when I wakes, li'l Liza Jane
Note: Advertisement on back for While the Incense is burning / words and music by Walter Smith.
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First line of text: When you're gone I won't forget you, and I'll miss you when you go
First line of chorus: When you're gone I won't forget you, when from me you're far away
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 and on back for music published by F.B. Havilant Pub. Co.
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First line of text: Farmer Jasper packed his things up had to answer to his country's call
First line of chorus: Save all your lovin' till I come back home and grin, grin, grin
Note: includes patter chorus for men on back.
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First line of text: Reuben, Reuben, I've been thinking, said his wifey dear
First line of chorus: How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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First line of text: They met while clouds were hanging over Flanders, a soldier's glance, a war romance
First line of chorus: Don't cry French, don't cry, when you kiss me goodbye
Note: Advertisement on back for Bring me a rose / by Charles Shisler, published by Waterson, Berlin, & Snyder Co.
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First line of text: You'll read about a fun'ral going through Berlin
First line of chorus: Dumpty deedle dee dum dee, dumpty deedle dee dum
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
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First line of text: Yankee boy has heard the call to arms, Yankee boy has answered war's alarms
First line of chorus: I'm all dressed up to kill, I'm all dressed up to kill
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co.
Note: Advertisement on back for food rationing.
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First line of text: War in the air, blare bugles, drums beat the loud roll call
First line of chorus: Goodbye and luck be with you Laddie boy, Laddie boy whatever your name may be
Note: Advertisements on pages [5] and [6] for music published by Gus Edwards Music House.
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First line of text: Why our soldier boys are fighting, why our ladies cross the sea
First line of chorus: Ev'ry soldier lad who's in khaki clas has a lassie he's left at home
Note: "the author devotes one half of the proceeds to the Red Cross or patriotic purposes".
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First line of text: Nights are growing very lonely, days are very long
First line of chorus: There's a long, long trail a-winding in to the land of my dreams
Note: Advertisements for other music on pages [2, 7,] and back for M. Witmark & Sons.
Note: Sung by Jack McCormack.
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First line of text: Tommy was a soldier, who had joined the volunteers, and when he marched away to war his eyes were filled with tears.
First line of chorus: I'm a long way from Tipperary, I'm a long way from Mary dear
Note: Advertisements inside cover and on back for other music published by Will Rossiter.
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First line of text: Beside a campfire gleaming, a grenadier was dreaming, his thoughts went back again to other years
First line of chorus: Lorraine, Lorraine, my beautiful Alsace Lorraine
Note: Advertisement on back for When you find someone missing / words by Joe McCarthy ; music by Geo. Fairman.
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First line of text: Poor Johnny's heart went pitty, pitty pat, somewhere in sunny France
First line of chorus: Wee wee Marie, will you do zis for me, wee wee Marie, then I'll do zat for you
Note: Advertisement on back for Kisses / Lyric by Alex Sullivan ; music by Lynn Cowan.
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Dedicatee: Barrell, Lieut. Joseph E., and Lieut. Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry.
First line of text: Reuben Plank was a husky Yank, came into town one day
First line of chorus: It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there, Uncle Sam will show the way
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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First line of text: Over there, the silv'ry moon was shining, over there, a soldier boy while pining
First line of chorus: Oh, moon, of the summer night, your silv'ry beams bring me dreams, of the loved ones back home
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Al. Piantadosi & Co., Inc.
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First line of text: Twas on a wet October morn among the hills of Kerry
First line of chorus: Rooney's at the fightin', Tim Rooney's at the fightin'
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First line of text: The Sammies are coming, the Yanks are on their way
First line of chorus: On our way, we'll sing a good old Yankee song
Copyright: Herman Jacobson.
First line of text: My boy has crossed the sea, to fight for liberty
Copyright: Loyd Ignatius Nord.
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First line of text: His furlough time was over, he was told to say good-bye
First line of chorus: While you're away, while you're away, I'll keep the lovelight bright
Note: Advertisement on back for Are you from heaven? / by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland.
First line of text: Amid fields of clover, 'twas just a little over a hundred years ago
First line of chorus: America, I love you, you're like a sweetheart of mine
Note: Advertisement on back for I'm looking for a warm spot / words by Edgar Leslie ; music by Archie Gottler.
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First line of text: Amid fields of clover, 'twas just a little over a hundred years ago
First line of chorus: America, I love you, you're like a sweetheart of mine
Note: Advertisement on back for As we sat at the Saturday Evening Post / words by Edgar Leslie and Bert Kalmar ; music by Jean Schwartz.
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First line of text: Barney Carney promised me he'd by true to Molly O, the day he went away to war about a year ago
First line of chorus: My Barney lies over the ocean, my Barney lies over the sea
Note: Advertisement on back for That tumble-down shack in Athlone / Lyrics by Richard W. Pascoe ; music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders.
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First line of text: America will always hold a welcome hand to those who come across the sea from ev'ry land
First line of chorus: The star-spangled banner we always will defend, the standard of freedom until all time shall end
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by McKinley Music Company.
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First line of text: We're mighty proud of you, Sammy boy, you've proved that you are true, Sammy boy
First line of chorus: So long, Sammy, may good luck be your guide
Note: Advertisement on back for For you a rose / words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards.
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First line of text: Goodbye ev'rybody for we're going 'cross the sea, going for a visit to some friends in Germany
First line of chorus: Over the Rhine, over the Rhine, over the Rhine to the German line
Note: Advertisement on back for Tackin' em down / lyric by Bud de Sylva ; music by Albert Gumblev.
Note: Advertisement on back for food rationing.
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First line of text: Don't you see the boys are marching, don't you hear the soldier's drum
First line of chorus: Uncle Sammy is a-calling, calling to you and me
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by W.A. Quincke & Co.
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First line of text: Three letters left a village bound for somewhere over there
First line of chorus: For the first was just old fashioned, and it breathed a mother's pray'r.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co.
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First line of text: Three letters left a village bound for somewhere over there
First line of chorus: For the first was just old fashioned, and it breathed a mother's pray'r.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co.
Note: "Loyalty is the word of the day" advertisement runner on bottom of page two.
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First line of text: Say, neighbor, did you write to say "hello!" to Frank and Jim and Joe
First line of chorus: Just a bit of sunshine, a little bit of sunshine, will drive the clouds away
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co.
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First line of text: While the shot and steel were screaming upon the battle field
First line of chorus: Just break the news to mother, she knows how dear I love her
Note: Originally published in 1897 and popularized during the Spanish-American War.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Chas. K. Harris.
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First line of text: While the shot and steel were screaming upon the battle field
First line of chorus: Just break the news to mother, she knows how dear I love her
Note: Originally published in 1897 and popularized during the Spanish-American War.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Chas. K. Harris.
Dedicatee: Treadwell, Colonel H.H.
Note: Written for the 22nd Engineers, N.Y.G.
Note: Advertisement on back for Kiss me again / lyric by Henry Blossom ; written by Victor Herbert.
Dedicatee: To the Boys in Uncles Sam's Army and Navy.
First line of text: When the cruel war is over and the soldier boys come home
First line of chorus: Ev'ry girl that has a heart just loves a soldier
Copyright: Katharine Hoffman and Charles F. Whaley.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Jeff Branen.
First line of text: A little boy was sitting on his mother's knee one day
First line of chorus: Somewhere in France is Daddy, somewhere in France is he
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Howard and La Var Music Co.
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First line of text: One day as morning shed its glow across the eastern sky
First line of chorus: Somewhere in France is the lily, close by the English rose
Note: Interior stamp states "Food will win this war - don't waste it."
Note: Advertisements on pages 2, 3 and [4] for other music published by M. Whitmark & Sons.
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First line of text: One day as morning shed its glow across the eastern sky
First line of chorus: Somewhere in France is the lily, close by the English rose
Note: advertisements on pages 2, 3 and [4] for other music published by M. Whitmark & Sons.
First line of text: One day as morning shed its glow across the eastern sky
First line of chorus: Somewhere in France is the lily, close by the English rose
Note: Advertisement on back for Evening brings rest and you / lyric by Edna Stanton Whaley ; music by F. H. Bishop.
First line of text: I just received an answer to a letter that I wrote, from a pal who marched away
First line of chorus: I don't want to get well, I don't want to get well, I'm in love with a beautiful nurse
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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First line of text: Somebody went away, left those at home to pray, somebody could not say
First line of chorus: Home again, home again, night and day, throughout the weary way
Note: Advertisement on back for My Barney lies over the ocean : just the way he lied to me / words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Bert Grant.
First line of text: Find me a lane without a turning, find me a rose without a thorn
First line of chorus: Fires of faith are burning, burning in ev'ry heart, flames that were kindled in baby years, sparkle with light from your mother's tears
Note: Advertisement on back for When the bees make honey down in Sunny Alabam' / words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Walter Donaldson.
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Dedicatee: Sawyer, Miss Ray C.
First line of text: America is in the war, and she is in to stay, her gallant boys have crossed the foam, and now they're in the fray
First line of chorus: Victory, Victory, for that we've sent marines across the sea
Note: Advertisement on back for Mammy's chocolate soldier / words by Sidney Mitchell; music by Archie Gottler.
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First line of text: I've heard the prayers of mothers, some of them old and gray
First line of chorus: Just a baby's pray'r at twilight, when lights are low
Note: Advertisement on back for Whose little heart are you breaking now / by Irving Berlin.
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First line of text: The voice of the country called forth ev'ry son, and nobly they echoed the answer as one
First line of chorus: God, spare our boys over there, keep them in your tender care
Note: Popular edition.
Note: The Army and Navy song prayer.
First line of text: Can't you hear the bugle chorus, see the flag that's floating o'er us
First line of chorus: The red, white and blue is calling you, come on and do your duty, too
Note: Advertisements on back for music published by McKinley Music Company.
First line of text: Ev'rybody has a native land, in the North, South, East or West
First line of chorus: It's not your nationality, it's what you do, it's not your personality, that always pulls you through
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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First line of text: Paddy Mack drove a hack up and down Broadway, Pat had one expression and he'd use it ev'ry day
First line of chorus: Where do we go from here, boys, where to do we go from here
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
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Note: Advertisement on back for In Yucatan / [by] Sadie Koninsky.
First line of text: Up to mighty London came an Irish man one day
First line of chorus: It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go
Note: Advertisement on back for Little grey home in the West / words by D. Eardley Wilmot ; music by Hermann Lohr.
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First line of text: Now we all know the Kaiser each day is getting wiser that some day soon he'll lose his little crown
First line of chorus: We're drivin' 'em back, boys, we're drivin' 'em back, we're getting' nearer ev'ry day
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by McKinley Music Company.
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First line of text: Have you heard the news, have you heard the news, the news that's going all around
First line of chorus: We're going to hang the Kaiser under the linden tree, under the linden tree, over in Germany
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Kendis-Brockman Music Co., Inc.
Note: Advertisement on back for food rationing.
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First line of text: When the sun sinks to rest 'neath the blue distant hills
First line of chorus: To the dearest spot in the whole world to me
Note: Melody originated and written by American soldiers in France.
Note: Back page contains original arrangment.
First line of text: There's a little blue star in the window, and it means all the world to me
First line of chorus: There are stars in the high heavens shining with a promise of hope in their light
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by McKinley Music Company.
First line of text: One night in sleep the Kaiser thought the whole world he could rule
First line of chorus: All together, every mother's son
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 and for food rationing.
First line of text: One day a bugle blew in Dixieland to call the Southern braves away
First line of chorus: Honey, don't forget your dear old mammy back in Dixieland
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Will Rossiter.
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First line of text: Ten million men have answered to a mighty nations call, ten million men for love of country gladly give up all
First line of chorus: Goodbye, that means you little girl, but he knows that your heart is true
Note: advertisement on back for Before the world began / words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Alfred Solman.
First line of text: Oh boys, the sargeant said to us, oh boys there's joy ahead of us
First line of chorus: What'll we do with him boys, what'll we do, what'll we doodle oddle Yankee doodle do
Note: Advertisement on back for From me to Mandy Lee / words by Bernie Grossman; music by Arthur Lange.
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First line of text: Ev'rybody isn't built to go and fight, but we always want to do the thing that's right
First line of chorus: Just go and do something, do something do what you can
Note: This song is endorsed by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies, Washington, D.C.
Note: Advertisment on back entitled Ways to do something for your country, sponsored by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies.
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First line of text: Somebody wrote a letter, to someone far away
First line of chorus: Just a babys letter found in no man's land, to a soldier daddy over there
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Joe Morris Music Co.
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First line of text: See the folks all arrayed? They're dressed up for the parade
First line of chorus: Let's all give three cheers, for the Dixie Volunteers, see those great big Southern laddies, just like their dear old daddies
Note: Advertisment on back for Paddle addle : in your little canoe / by Ted Snyder.
First line of text: See the folks all arrayed? They're dressed up for the parade
First line of chorus: Let's all give three cheers, for the Dixie Volunteers, see those great big Southern laddies, just like their dear old daddies
Note: As introduced by Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld's Follies.
Note: Advertisment on back for My sweetie / by Irving Berlin.
First line of text: Sweet Marie, in gay Pa-ree, had a motor car
First line of chorus: Come on papa, hop in ze motor car, sit by mamma, and hold ze hand
Note: Advertisement on back for Don't cry Frenchy, don't cry / words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Walter Donaldson.
First line of text: Columbia the gem of the ocean, the home of the brave and the free
Note: Contains excerpts from: Red, white and blue -- Tenting tonight on the old camp ground -- When Johnny comes marching home -- John Brown's body -- Marching through Georgia -- Soldier's farewell.
Note: Advertisement on back for Blue rose / [by] Frederick Knight Logan.
First line of text: There are many ways we can say goodbye, when a soldier goes away
First line of chorus: Don't be anybody's soldier boy but mine, keep a little tho't for me each day
Note: Advertisement on back for Somewhere a heart is breaking and calling me back to you / words by Milton Weil ; music by Leo Friedman.
First line of text: A might nation hears a ringing call to arm, a call that draws her sons from city, vale and farm
First line of chorus: Say a praper, for the boys out there, for our heroes o'er the sea
Note: Advertisement on back for Before the world began / words by Andrew Sterling.
Digital version
First line of text: Hey, you know Tony the barber who shaves and cuts a the hair, he said ska-booch, to his Mariooch
First line of chorus: When Tony goes over the top, he no think of the barber shop
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Joe Morris Music Co.
First line of text: Goodness mercy, listen Percy, hear the bugles call
First line of chorus: I don't want to go to war, I think bullets are a bore
Note: Advertisement on back for At the ball, that's all / words and music by J. Leubrie Hill.
Dedicatee: Cronin, Captain Gerald Ellis.
First line of text: Give my love to the Forty Eighth, the regular army men
First line of chorus: It's a long red road that the boys must go
Copyright: V. Martone.
Note: V. Martone is the band leader of the 48th infantry, U.S.A.
First line of text: There's a lonely little mother in a lonely home tonight
First line of chorus: I gave my boy to Uncle Sam, to fight for you and me
Note: Advertisement on back for Evening brings rest and you / lyric by Edna Stanton Whaley ; music by F. H. Bishop.
First line of text: Just like a baby you're crying, just like a baby you're trying
First line of chorus: I'm glad that I can make you blue, I'm glad that I can worry you
Note: Introduced in Gus Hill's Minstrels, sung by Bessie Hamilton.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Jos. W. Stern Co.
First line of text: Johnny Johnson of the infantry, sailed far away o'er the sea
First line of chorus: Oh you lillies of France, give the poor girls a chance
Note: Advertisement on back for Little Mary Brown/ by Alan McDougall.
Dedicatee: "[t]o our gallant boys of the Army and Navy and to the Allies with whom we are are United make us one for all and all for one."
First line of text: I heard a voice in the still of night, 'twas the call of Uncle Sam
First line of chorus: Here I am, Uncle Sammy, take me, you are welcome to whatever I can do
Copyright: Dean T. Wilson.
First line of text: Somewhere far away, Somewhere in the fray
First line of chorus: Homeward bound, someday they'll hear that welcome sound
Note: Successfully introduced by Belle Brooks.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
First line of text: Somewhere far away, Somewhere in the fray
First line of chorus: Homeward bound, someday they'll hear that welcome sound
Note: Successfully introduced by Emma Carus.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
First line of text: Somewhere far away, Somewhere in the fray
First line of chorus: Homeward bound, someday they'll hear that welcome sound
Note: Successfully introduced by Harry Cooper.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
First line of text: Down in our alley, each Susie and Sally, is rolling her eyes, up to the skies
First line of chorus: Johnny's in town, Johnny's in town, and oh, dearie, oh, dearie, he's been aroun'
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
First line of text: Swanee shore, no more singin' round the cabin door
First line of chorus: You remember Dancin' Mose? Folks all called him Tickle Toes, you'll find him over there in France
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
Digital version
First line of text: Looking backward through the ages, we can read on hist'ry's pages, deeds that famous men have done
First line of chorus: Just like Washington crossed the Delaware, so will Pershing cross the Rhine
Note: Theme suggested by Kate Elinore and Sam Williams.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
Digital version
First line of text: Little Mary's beau, said "I've got to go, I must fight for Uncle Sam"
First line of chorus: If he can fight like he can love, oh, what a soldier boy he'll be
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
First line of text: A sweet little girl, with bright golden curls, sat playing with toys on the floor
First line of chorus: I don't want a dress or a dolly, 'cause dollies get broken 'round here
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
First line of text: News has come to us from far across the foam, boys are coming back from over there
First line of chorus: Mother, you gave your pride and joy, Mother, you gave your boy
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
First line of text: You have rested, Liberty Bell, for a hundred years and more
First line of chorus: Liberty Bell, it's time to ring again, Liberty Bell, it's time to ring again
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co. and includes an advertisment for wartime food rationing.
First line of text: I've always had a lot of boys around me, wherever boys were, that's the place you found me
First line of chorus: I'm going to follow the boys over there, anywhere, I don't care
Note: Interior stamp states "Food will win this war - don't waste it"
Note: Advertisement on back for Evening brings rest and you / lyric by Edna Stanton Whaley ; music by F.H. Bishop.
First line of text: Last night, as I lay a sleeping, a wonderful dream came to me
First line of chorus: If you don't like your Uncle Sammy, then go back to your home o'er the sea
Note: Advertisement on page [2] and back for music published by Leo Feist, Inc.
Dedicatee: The men of the American Fleet
First line of text: The bo-sn' blew and a Yankee crew had stopped to hear him say
First line of chorus: We're on our way to Heligoland to get the Kaiser's goat
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
Digital version
First line of text: At the club one ev'ning Jones was telling all his pals
First line of chorus: Hold your hand out, naughty boy
Note: Soldier chorus by Lieut. Gitz Rice ; soldier version used by courtesy of Robert Emmett Keane.
Note: Advertisement on back for The sunshine of your smile / words by Leonard Cooke ; music by Lilian Ray.
Digital version
First line of text: He was true, so would you be too, if you loved a girl like Sally
First line of chorus: In the sweet bye and bye, when the skies are clear and blue
Note: Advertisement on back for On the road to home sweet home / lyric by Otis Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
Note: Advertisements inside and on back for food rationing.
Digital version
First line of text: When Yankee Doodle came to Paris town, upon his face he wore a little frown
First line of chorus: When Yankee Doodle learns to parlez vous Francais, in the proper way
Note: Advertisment on back for Just you / words & music by Con Barth.
Digital version
First line of text: Skies of gray have given way to brightness, hearts that once were sad are feeling gay
First line of chorus: Welcome home the day of peace on earth is here, welcome home what words of cheer
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by A.J. Stasny Music Co.
Digital version
First line of text: Last night I joined the regulars, I'm glad I volunteered
First line of chorus: My sweetheart, when we part, she will sigh and cry, my old dad, he'll feel bad, as the troops march by
Note: Advertisement on back for Rose Dreams / poem by J.R. Shannon ; music by A.J. Stasny.
Note: Item states that the author called away for military duty and "unable to complete second verse."
First line of text: Last night I met an old friend Willie Brown, I noticed on his face he wore a frown
First line of chorus: Oh, I've got a new job, a wonderful job, I'm so happy I could jump with joy
Note: Advertisement on back for Rose Dreams / poem by J.R. Shannon ; music by A.J. Stasny.
Digital version
First line of text: They were summoned from the hillside, they were called in from the glen
First line of chorus: Keep the homefires burning, while your hearts are yearning
Note: Advertisements on page 2 and [8] for music published by Chappell & Co., Ltd.
First line of text: There is a girl who waits at home who's full of charm and grace
First line of chorus: Laddie in khaki I'm waiting for you, I want you to know that my heart beats true
Note: Advertisement on page [2] and back for music published by Chappell & Co. Ltd.
First line of text: Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold, Katy was a maid with hair of gold
First line of chorus: K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy, you're the g-g-g-girl that I adore
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
First line of text: Private Perks is a funny little codger with a smile, a funny smile
First line of chorus: Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile
Copyright: T.B. Harms and Francis, Day, and Hunter.
Note: Advertisement on pages [6 and 7] and back for music published by Chapell & Co., Ltd.
First line of text: I stood once in a harbour as a ship was going out on a voyage to a port beyond the sea
First line of chorus: When the fields are white with daisies, and the roses bloom again, let the love-flame in your heart more quickly burn
Note: Advertisement on back for Will you think of Devon sometimes.
First line of text: Somewhere in France at the close of a day, just as the sun tints the west
First line of chorus: Somewhere in France where the shot and shell are screaming
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Edw. L. Ballenger Music Publishing Co.
Dedicatee: Vidmer, George A., of the 306th Infantry.
First line of text: No matter where you chance to be, in America or France you'll see, the same old moon shines ev'rywhere
First line of chorus: When the moon is shining, somewhere in France, I'll send a wireless to you
Note: Advertisements for other music on pages 3, 6 and back for music published by Jos. W. Stern & Co.
Note: Patriotic song success featured by Frances White (of Rock & White).
First line of text: It's a long way back to old America, to the only girl I long to see
First line of chorus: Way back home in dear America, there's a girl I long to see
Note: Advertisement on back for music written and published by Laura Rathbone.
Digital version
First line of text: All my life is empty, since I went away
Note: Advertisement on [page 7] and on back for music published by Ricordi & Co., Inc.
Note: Sung by Mr. John McCormack at all his engagements.
First line of text: My old friend Cole was an honest soul, who lived for America first
First line of chorus: Never swap horses, when you're crossing a stream, and let well enough alone
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist, Inc.
First line of text: Dearie, now I know just what makes me love you so, just what holds me and endfolds me in its golden glow
First line of chorus: There are smiles that make us happy, there are smiles that make us blue
Copyright: Lee S. Roberts, 1917.
Note: Advertisement on back for Till we meet again / words by Raymond B. Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting.
First line of text: Willie Earl met a sweet young girl one day in France, her naughty little glance, put Willie in a trance
First line of chorus: She'd say, com-pron-ay voo, pa-pa, and he'd say oo-la-la, wee wee
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
First line of text: Why are all the girlies feeling great? Something's in the air
First line of chorus: Oh, what a time, what a time for the girlies when the boys come marching home
Note: Advertisement on back for Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody / words by Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis ; music by Jean Schwartz.
Dedicatee: The children of America
First line of text: Come, boys and girls, just listen to this news for you and me, they're going to send a Christmas ship across the great blue sea
First line of chorus: Hurrah, hurrah for the Christmas ship as it starts across the sea with its load of gifts and its greater load of loving sympathy
Note: Advertisement on back for the Christmas Ship.
Dedicatee: "[m]y comrades in arms"
First line of text: No matter whey we go, or when, no matter where we go, our starry flag in grandeur proud, to us the way will show
First line of chorus: We'll keep Old Glory flying, fair, no matter where we are
Note: Advertisements for other music on pages [6-7] and back for music published by Boosey & Co.
First line of text: Father tell me, why do they cheer, for a bell, that is old and broken
First line of chorus: I've heard the chimes of Trinity, I've heard Westminster, too
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by H.A. Weymann & Son.
First line of text: We've heard the German yell and Sammy's answering shout
First line of chorus: Sammy's mother ev'ry day is knitting army socks
Copyright: Carrie McCune, Worthington, Minnesota.
First line of text: Over there we hear of heroes, who've been fighting for you and me
First line of chorus: On the sea, we've other heroes, too, on the sea, our sailor boys in blue
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Leo. Feist Inc.
First line of text: When the gray shadows creep, and the world is asleep, in the still of the night, Baby creeps down a flight
First line of chorus: Hello Central give me no man's land, my daddy's there, my mamma told me
Note: As introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad at the Winter's Garden, New York.
Note: Advertisement on back for They were all out of step but Jim / by Irving Berlin.
First line of text: When the gray shadows creep, and the world is asleep, in the still of the night, Baby creeps down a flight
First line of chorus: Hello Central give me no man's land, my daddy's there, my mamma told me
Note: Successfully introduced by William Smythe, "The American Irish Tenor."
Note: Advertisement on back for When Alexander takes his ragtime band to France / by Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess, and Edgar Leslie.
First line of text: All the girls today are up to something, something's goin' to happen soon
First line of chorus: Ev'ry girl wants to marry a soldier, somehow all the girlies know
Note: Advertisement on back for That's why I can't forget / words by Arthur J. Lamb ; music by Alfred Solman.
First line of text: Come, dear, kiss your boy good-bye, look me in the eye, promise you'll not cry
First line of chorus: For I'm hitting the trail to Normandy, so kiss me good-bye
Note: Includes alternate version of chorus for male or mixed voices, arranged by F. Henri Klickmann.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by McKinley Music Company.
First line of text: There's a happy time coming when the boys come home
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by G. Schirmer.
Dedicatee: The American Troops Overseas.
First line of text: When you come home, dear, all will be fair, home is not home if you are not there
First line of chorus: Birds in the garden, all day long, singing for me their happy song
Note: Advertisements for other music on pages [6-7] and back for music published by Boosey & Co.
First line of text: The major wrote the chorus but he fell down on the verse
First line of chorus: We're going over, we're going over, they want to settle up that fuss, and they put it up to us
Note: Advertisement on back for Before the world began / words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Alfred Solman.
First line of text: The boys out in the trenches have a song you never heard, they wrote it going over, ev'ry man put in a word
First line of chorus: We're going over the top, we're going over the top, we're going O,V,E,R, over the top.
Note: advertisement on back for Before the world began / words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Alfred Solman.
First line of text: Most ev'ry fellow has a sweet-heart, some little girl with eyes of blue
First line of chorus: It's time for ev'ry boy to be a soldier, to put his strength and courage to the test
Note: Advertisement on back for Alabama Moon / lyric by J. Will Callahan ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
First line of text: The tramp of armies marching now shakes the earth again, two years they have been fighting all in vain
First line of chorus: When England, France and Germany will all advance in peace and harmony
Note: Advertisement on back for Mammy's little coal black rose / words by Raymond Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting.
First line of text: When the cruel war came o'er us I was in the Ziegfield chorus
First line of chorus: Billy's busy drillin' in the infantry, Artie's in the aviation corps
Note: Advertisement on back for Sweet Little Buttercup / words by Alfred Bryan ; music by Herman Paley.
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 and the back for food rationing.
First line of text: Jerry McSherry was a number one top sergeant who sail'd for gay Paree
First line of chorus: Jerry mon cheri, I'm very very fond of you la la Jerry mon cheri
Note: Advertisement on back for Bing! Bang! Bing'em on the Rhine : song / words and music by Jack Mahoney & Allan Flynn.
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 and the back for food rationing.
First line of text: Why this noice of battle ever reaching our ears? Turning the world to sadness and tears
First line of chorus: May all the nations join in bringing reason to the warring world
First line of text: After the din of the battles roar, just at the close of day
First line of chorus: One thought of mother, at home alone, feeble and old and gray
Note: Advertisements on pages 2, 3 and [4] for music published by M. Witmark & Sons.
First line of text: Our hero boys are coming back on stormy rolling waves
Copyright: John E. Unger.
Note: Score printed on bifold mimeograph sheet, with lyrics glued to back.
First line of text: He marched off and left his girl behind him, on that battle field of France you'll find him
First line of chorus: Don't try to steal the sweet-heart of a soldier, it's up to you to play a manly part
Note: Advertisement on back for The bravest heart of all / lyric by Raymond Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting.
First line of text: Oh mother dear a little tear is gleaming in your eye
First line of chorus: So long my dear old lady don't you cry, just kiss your grown up baby boy good-bye
Note: Al Jolson's Mother song.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Jerome H. Remick & Co.
First line of text: Your Uncle Sam is calling now on ev'ry one of you if you're to old or young to fight there's something else to do
First line of chorus: What are you going to do for Uncle Sammy, what are you going to do to help the boys
Note: Runners on inside bottom advertise "Wheat wins the war--share it with the Allies for Victory!" and "Join the Army of the Majority, Save! And use food substitutes!"
Note: Advertisement on back for So dress up your dollars in Khaki / words by Lister R. Alwood ; music by Richard A Whiting.
First line of text: Your Uncle Sam is calling now on ev'ry one of you if you're to old or young to fight there's something else to do
First line of chorus: What are you going to do for Uncle Sammy, what are you going to do to help the boys
Note: Runners on inside bottom advertise "Food is ammunition--don't waste it" and "The food you save in your kitchen goes to the soldier' mess at the front."
Note: Advertisement on back for So dress up your dollars in Khaki / words by Lister R. Alwood ; music by Richard A Whiting.
First line of text: Hear the bugle call, the call to arms for liberty
First line of chorus: For your boy and my boy and all of the boys out there, Let's lend our money to the U.S.A. and do our share
Note: Runner on inside bottom advertises "Win the war with bread and lead."
Note: Advertisement on back for Fourth United Liberty Loan.
First line of text: I love my country, 'deed I do, but oh, that war has made me blue
First line of chorus: I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the alcoholic blues.
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Broadway Music Corporation.
First line of text: Good-bye dear, I'm leaving you today, don't cry dear, just dry those tears away
First line of chorus: I may be gone for a long, long time, long, long time, long, long time
Note: Grace La Rue's instantaneous success in Raymond Hitchcock & E. Ray Goetz's new musical review Hitchy-koo
Note: Advertisement on back for When the sun goes down in Dixie : and the moon begins to rise / words by Chas. McCarron ; music by Albert Von Tilzer.
First line of text: A mother was kneeling to pray, for loved ones at war far away
First line of chorus: Don't take my darling boy away from me, don't send him off to war
Note: Advertisement on back for Pigeon walk : fox trot / by James V. Monaco.
First line of text: Though you're leaving me today, never fear, in my thoughts you'll always be ever near
First line of chorus: Au revoir but not goodbye, soldier boy, brush that tear drop from your eye, soldier boy
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Broadway Music Corporation.
Note: Advertisement on back for food rationing.
First line of text: Uncle Sammy's boys are somewhere over there in France
First line of chorus: Keep the trench-fires going for the boys out there
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co.
First line of text: I've trotted all around the globe, I've been in ev'ry clime
First line of chorus: No more I'll roam, I'll build a home, under the American flag
Note: Advertisement on back for Close to my heart / words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.
First line of text: America, the world is calling you, America, it needs you badly, too
First line of chorus: It's the man behind the hammer and the plow, who made this country what it is today
Note: "Proclamation by the President to the People" published on back.
First line of text: Now little Johnnie was a volunteer, he kissed his girl goodbye
First line of chorus: I do not care for a diamond ring, a string of pearls
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co.
First line of text: He was just a long, lean country gink from 'way out West where the hop-toads wink
First line of chorus: Goodby Ma, goodby, Pa, goodby, mule, with yer old hee-haw
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Dedicatee: The "Khaki Bills" of the U.S.A.
First line of text: Banners flying, sweethearts sighing, boys go marking along, singing liberty's song
First line of chorus: Goodbye, you boys of liberty, we sing farewell, farewell to thee
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by C.L. Barnhouse.
First line of text: Sammy said to Tommy Britain, here's a letter, it was written in the good old U.S.A.
First line of chorus: When taps are softly blowing, flowing melody of rest, all through the night comes showing, glowing light of golden West
Note: Advertisement on back for music published by [C.L. Barnhouse].
First line of text: While you are sleeping, your France is weeping, wake from your dreams, maid of France
First line of chorus: Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc, do your eyes, from the skies, see the foe
Note: Advertisment on back for Paddle addle : in your little canoe / by Ted Snyder.
First line of text: Early to bed, early to rise, I heard my mother say to her angel eyes
First line of chorus: Oh, how I wish I could sleep until my Daddy come home
Note: Advertisement on back for Don't you remember the day / words and music by Cliff Hess.
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 for food rationing.
First line of text: I saw a mother and a baby on an ocean pier today, I heard the baby cry for daddy, when the big ship sail'd away
First line of chorus: My little laddie boy, oh my laddie boy, you're only five years old today
Note: Advertisement on back for Don't try to steal the sweetheart of a soldier / lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Van & Schenck.
First line of text: There's a song in the land of the lily, each sweetheart has heard with a sigh
First line of chorus: Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu, when the clouds roll by I'll come to you
Note: Advertisement on back for Smiles / words by J. Will Callahan ; music by Lee S. Roberts.
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 for food rationing.
First line of text: Ev'ry heart must learn the sadness of the words "au revoir"
First line of chorus: We learn to love the flowers when the snows are here
Note: Advertisement on back for On the road to home sweet home / lyric by Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
Note: Advertisement on pages 2 and 3 and the back for food rationing.
First line of text: Heroes are marching, marching to the war
First line of chorus: After the war is over when the battle's done
Note: advertisement on back for Before the world began / words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Alfred Solman.
First line of text: O'er us that flag doth wave, our flag shall conquer
First line of chorus: Ever the stripes and stars, borne thro' our bloody wars
Note: Arranged by Richard R. Trench.
First line of text: In a crowded railway station a maiden stood in tears, by her side her soldier lover vainly tried to calm her fears
First line of chorus: When the flag of peace is waving and victory we've won
Note: Advertisement on back for music and literature published by Mary Ruth Meyer of Brunswick, Georgia.