World War I Sheet Music

The World War I digital sheet music collection is drawn from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library. It is composed of over 1,800 titles that relate in some way to the events of World War I, and the impact of that war on American society. There are patriotic songs, songs relating to specific military units, romantic songs of love and loss, comic songs, and songs that look to the war’s end.
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Send me a rose from homeland: song

words and music by J.F. Cooke. March for voice and piano in A♭major (No. 1) Cover title. Dedicated to: John Philip Sousa. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Also published in B♭ major (No. 2)

Send me a picture of baby

words by Bud Green ; music by Archie Gottler. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier writing a letter and envisioning his wife and baby / Barbelle.

Send me a line: when I'm across the ocean

words by Irving Crocker ; music by George L. Cobb. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for a magazine: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of ships at sea and a letter / Starmer.

Send me a curl

Send me a curl

Brown University

words and music by Geoffrey O'Hara. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "To M.S." Additional refrain for men's chorus (TTBB): p. [7] Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Cover illustration: woman knitting and two soldiers / MacGregor Ormiston. Also available in band arrangement and orchestra arrangement.

Send back dear Daddy to me

words by Alexander Sullivan & Harry Tenney ; music by Irving Maslof. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Graveyard Blues" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl gazing at picture of soldier / E.E. Walton; photograph of Bailey & Cowan.

Send back dear Daddy to me

words by Alexander Sullivan & Harry Tenney ; music by Irving Maslof. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Graveyard Blues" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl gazing at picture of soldier / E.E. Walton; photograph of Bailey & Cowan.

Send back dear Daddy to me

words by Alexander Sullivan & Harry Tenney ; music by Irving Maslof. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Graveyard Blues" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl gazing at picture of soldier / E.E. Walton; photograph of Bailey & Cowan.

See it through: the regimental song of the 367th Infantry

words and music by Geo. E. Battle & Max Weinstein. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Colonel Jas. A. Moss. 367th Infantry Welfare League membership information: p. [4] Cover illustration: insignia and motto of the U.S. Army Infantry Regiment, 367th / R H. Back cover illustration: emblem of the 367th Infantry Welfare League.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say a prayer for the boys "out there"

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alex Marr. March for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title, in white box: The greatest patriotic ballad of the season. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: family saying grace / Starmer; photograph of Cook & Oatman.

Say "au revoir" but not "good-bye": (Dis "au revoir", mais pas "adieu")

revised and re-arranged by E.T. Paull ; French version by Jacques H. Caliche ; words and music by Harry Kennedy. For voice and piano, in key of B♭ Lyrics in English and French. Caption title. "Dedicated to my Esteemed Friends, Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Lindsay." "Original [edition] Copyright MDCCCXCIII by Will H. Kennedy"--P.2. Advertisement for other E.T. Paull songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: woman and soldier embracing / E.H. Pfeiffer. Also published in key of A♭

Save your kisses till the boys come home: song

words & music by Tom Mellor, Harry Gifford & Fred Godfrey. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: woman reading letter / John Frew.

Sammy: marching song

Sammy: marching song

Brown University

words by Richard Western ; music by Arthur Olaf Andersen. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: soldiers in a battle. Also published for: mixed quartette or chorus, male quartet or chorus. Parts available for: orchestra, brass band.

Salvation Sal: song

Salvation Sal: song

Brown University

lyric by Raymond B. Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: The overseas revue (Tout suite Elizabet), a war-time version of the post-war revue, Toot sweet, starring Elizabeth Brice. Advertisement for "Just 'round the corner", "Rose of Verdun" and 2 other songs: p. [6 Cover illustration: drawing of actress in costume / F.E. Muire.

Salvation Sal: song

Salvation Sal: song

Brown University

lyric by Raymond B. Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: The overseas revue (Tout suite Elizabet), a war-time version of the post-war revue, Toot sweet, starring Elizabeth Brice. Advertisement for "Just 'round the corner", "Rose of Verdun" and 2 other songs: p. [6 Cover illustration: drawing of actress in costume / F.E. Muire.

Salvation lassie of mine

words and music by Jack Caddigan and Chick Story. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for this song on sound disc and player piano roll: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Dreaming sweet dreams of Mother" and another song: p. [4 Cover illustration: photograph of woman in Salvation Army uniform; drawing of soldiers entering Salvation Army hut. Also published for: band or orchestra, male or mixed voices. First line of text: They say it's in heaven that all angels dwell. First line of chorus: A sweet little angel that went o'er the sea.

Row on Woodrow, row on

Row on Woodrow, row on

Brown University

words by M.V.B. Blood ; music by Eugene Platzmann. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to President Woodrow Wilson." Cover illustration: caricature of Woodrow Wilson rowing toward Germany; photograph of Col. M.V.B. Blood.

Rouse ye, America!

Rouse ye, America!

Brown University

[words by] E.W. Newton ; [music by] E.W. Newton ; harmonized and arranged by H.S. Leavitt. For chorus (SATB) and piano. Caption title.

Roses of Lorraine: (song)

words by Sidney Carter ; music by Walter Smith. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Dedicated to: Morris Oppenheim. Advertisement for "Dreamy moon": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of cannon in a field with roses.