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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Don't take my darling boy away

words by Will Dillon ; music by Albert Von Tilzer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: soldier summoning a mother's son from her side / De Takacs.

Don't steal my Yankee Doodle Dandy

lyric by Bud Green ; music by Ed. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: silhouette of woman remembering kissing soldier goodbye / Barbelle.

Don't forget the Salvation Army: (my doughnut girl)

words by Elmore Leffingwell and James Lucas ; music by Robert Brown and William Frisch. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Letter from the Commander of the Salvation Army to the general public: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl holding a container of doughnuts / E.E. Walton.

Don't forget the girl you left behind

words by Howard King ; music by Raymond White. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier waving goodbye to woman at gate / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover.

Don't cry Frenchy, don't cry

words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Walter Donaldson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Don't forget the boys": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a girl crying / Barbelle.

Don't cry Frenchy, don't cry

words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Walter Donaldson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman waving goodbye / Barbelle.

Don't cry Dolly Grey: song

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Herman Paley. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Underneath the stars" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: soldiers marching / Starmer.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Advertisement A42 for other songs: p. [2] Advertisement for "Beatrice Fairfax" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

words by Thomas Hoier ; music by Jimmie Morgan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Originally introduced by Ed. Morton"--Cover. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: photograph of Ed. Morton; background printed in tan ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Don't be anybody's soldier boy but mine

lyric by Joe Lyons ; music by Frank Magine. For voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier waving to woman at gate.

Do your little "Bitty-Bit": right now

words by F. Belohlavek and C.C. Perkins ; music by Edmund Braham. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: Uncle Sam handing out Liberty bonds to citizens and three other cameo scenes.

Do your bit!

Do your bit!

Brown University

words and music by Archie MacDonald. March for voice and piano. Caption title.

Dixie is Dixie once more: Dancing Mose is back in civy clothes

words by Wm. Tracey ; music by Maceo Pinkard. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. 3. Advertisement for "Mammy o' mine" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: landscape with cotton balls and buff-colored sun / De Takacs.

Dixie is Dixie once more: Dancing Mose is back in civy clothes

words by Wm. Tracey ; music by Maceo Pinkard. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. 3. Advertisement for "Mammy o' mine" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: landscape with cotton balls and buff-colored sun / De Takacs.

Democracy

Democracy

Brown University

words by P.T. Allen ; music by P.F. Brady. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Respectfully dedicated to Private John J. Connor, Machine Gun Co., 101st Infantry, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Force., France."--Cover. Cover illustration: drawing of the sun, labeled "democracy", with rays extending from it, each labeled with the name of a country / P.F. Brady; photographs of Paul T. Allen and P.F. Brady.

Democracy

Democracy

Brown University

words and music by Paul McMichael ; arranged by Robert C. Stearns. For voice and piano. Caption title. "To my mother and all mothers who have given, are giving or may give to democracy."

Defend America: marching song

text by Rufus Stickney ; music by Arthur Hadley. March for voice and piano. Cover title. "To the Boys in Khaki"--Caption. Advertisement for other music: p. [6] Also published for: piano solo; band and orchestra.

Dedicated to the drafted man: song

words by Wm. V. O'Donnell ; music by E.S.S. Huntington. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: silhouette of battle scene / A.M. Hillery.

Dear old pal of mine of mine

words by Harold Robe ; music by Gitz Rice. For voice and piano in A♭ major. Caption title. From revue: "Getting Together" Advertisements for other songs: p. [7-8] Cover illustration: photograph of Gitz Rice. Also published for: male quartette.