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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If I had a son for each star in Old Glory: Uncle Sam, I'd give them all to you!

words by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Jos. A. Burke. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Keep your eye on the girlie you love" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: a mother looking at a portrait of her son; photograph of Brice & King. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If I had a son for each star in Old Glory: Uncle Sam, I'd give them all to you!

words by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Jos. A. Burke. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Keep your eye on the girlie you love" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: a mother looking at a portrait of her son; photograph of Brice & King. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If I had a son for each star in Old Glory: Uncle Sam, I'd give them all to you!

words by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Jos. A. Burke. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Keep your eye on the girlie you love" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: a mother looking at a portrait of her son; photograph of Brice & King. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If I had a son for each star in Old Glory: Uncle Sam, I'd give them all to you!

words by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Jos. A. Burke. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Keep your eye on the girlie you love" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: a mother looking at a portrait of her son; photograph of Brice & King. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for this and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Ray Samuels. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany!

words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers ; music by George W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for this and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of roses / [rose symbol]; photograph of Ray Samuels. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

I've got the army blues

I've got the army blues

Brown University

by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Bugle call rag": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two soldiers facing each other / Starmer.

I've got the army blues

I've got the army blues

Brown University

by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Bugle call rag": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two soldiers facing each other / Starmer.

I'm writing to you Sammy

words by Lew Brown ; music by Al. Harriman. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. soldier smiling / EE Walton.

I'm so lonesome, awfully lonesome: since Daddy's gone away

lyric by John Henry Mears ; music by Earnest S. Golden. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Frances White. Advertisements for other songs: p. [5-6] Cover illustration: a girl doing arithmetic on a chalkboard; photograph of Frances White.

I'm proud to be the sweetheart of a soldier

words and music by Mary Earl. March for voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisement for another song: p. 3. Advertisement for "We don't want the bacon": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a girl displaying a portrait of her soldier sweetheart / EE Walton.

I'm proud to be the mother of a boy like you

words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: two women holding soldier's hands / De Takacs; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer. Photograph of Harry Von Tilzer: p. [4]

I'm not going to buy any summer clothes: but a uniform of blue

words by Harry Pease ; music by Gilbert Dodge. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Successfully introduced by: Bernard Granville. Advertisement for "Sometimes the dream comes true" and fourteen other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Bernard Granville; drawing of a civilian seeing himself as a soldier in a mirror / S Gibson.

I'm knitting a rosary

I'm knitting a rosary

Brown University

words by Robert Levenson ; music by Vincent Plunkett. For voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Private James Lucie. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Full text of "I'm knitting a rosary" recitation: p. [4] Cover illustration: girl watching woman knitting / E.S. Fisher.