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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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When I see you I see red white and blue

words by Grant Clarke ; music by Archie Gottler. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a girl saluting a silhouette of a soldier / Barbelle.

When I leave the U.S.A.

When I leave the U.S.A.

Brown University

lyric [and title design] by Arthur Arnold Burden ; music by V.A.L. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. "Dedicated to the Boys 'Over There'"--Cover. Cover illustration: U.S. flag, Uncle Sam with bugle; photograph of A.A. Burden and B.B. Benning.

When I had a uniform on

When I had a uniform on

Brown University

words and music by Cole Porter. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [10] Cover illustration: woman riding stork / Lionel S. Reiss; photograph of Raymond Hitchcock.

When I grow up I'm going to be a soldier

words by Jean Havez ; music by Gus Edwards. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: Cuddles & Georgie. From musical revue: Gus Edwards band-box Revue. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of Cuddles and Georgie; drawing of a girl carrying two band-boxes / Edgar Keller, '17.

When I get back: (from over there)

words and music by DeWitt H. Morse and William H. Farrell. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. soldier and woman / Walton. Photograph on p. [4]: Mary Maurice.

When I get back to my American blighty

words by Arthur Fields ; music by Theodore Morse. For voice and piano. Caption title. "To my cousin Michael Cohen, and pals Teddy Meyer and Victor Hilgers." Advertisement for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier embracing Statue of Liberty. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

When I dream of home and mother: song

by Emma I. Di Grado. For voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Arthur L. Sherman. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a man looking at a picture and thinking of home / ES Fisher.

When I come home to you

When I come home to you

Brown University

words by J. Will Callahan ; music by Frank H. Grey. For medium voice and piano in E♭ major. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Also published for: high voice in F major, low voice in G major.

When I come home to you

When I come home to you

Brown University

words by J. Will Callahan ; music by Frank H. Grey. For medium voice and piano in E♭ major. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Also published for: high voice in F major, low voice in G major.

When I come back

When I come back

Brown University

by Joseph Miller. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: landscape with trees and water.

When God turns the trenches to gardens again

words and music by Gilbert C. Tennant. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other music: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: a garden with weapons in foreground.

When Germany's had her fall

words and music by Rosamond H. Lefavour. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to The Winchester, Mass., Boys in Service" Cover illustration: drawing of ruins and Statue of Liberty.

When angels weep: (waltz of peace)

by Chas. K. Harris. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other music: p. 2-[6] Cover illustration: two angels and battle scene / EH Pfeiffer.

When all the world's at peace

lyric by Fleta Jan Brown ; music by Charles N. Grant. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 3-[8] Cover illustration: portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson and four other men.

When all the world's at peace

lyric by Fleta Jan Brown ; music by Charles N. Grant. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 3-[8] Cover illustration: portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson and four other men.

When Alexander takes his ragtime band to France

by Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess and Edgar Leslie. For voice and piano. Caption title. Successfully introduced by: Belle Baker. War slogans: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "I'm all bound 'round with the Mason Dixon Line": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Belle Baker; drawing of soldier's band marching / Barbelle.

When Alexander takes his ragtime band to France

by Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess and Edgar Leslie. For voice and piano. Caption title. Successfully introduced by: Belle Baker. War slogans: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "I'm all bound 'round with the Mason Dixon Line": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Belle Baker; drawing of soldier's band marching / Barbelle.

When Alexander takes his ragtime band to France

by Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess and Edgar Leslie. For voice and piano. Caption title. Successfully introduced by: Belle Baker. War slogans: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "I'm all bound 'round with the Mason Dixon Line": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Belle Baker; drawing of soldier's band marching / Barbelle.

When a blue service star turns to gold

words by Casper Nathan ; music by Theodore Morse. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "God spare our boys over there": p. [4] Cover illustration: blue service star and battle scene / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for band, orchestra and male quartette.

When a blue service star turns to gold

words by Casper Nathan ; music by Theodore Morse. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "God spare our boys over there": p. [4] Cover illustration: blue service star and battle scene / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for band, orchestra and male quartette.

What kind of an American are you?

words by Lew Brown and Chas. McCarron ; music by Albert Von Tilzer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: Uncle Sam and map of U.S.

What are you going to do when our boys come home?

words by Ivan Reid ; music by Peter De Rose. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers with a question mark / EE Walton.

What a wonderful dream it would be

words and music by Chas. K. Harris. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] War slogans on cover. Cover illustration: photograph of soldiers cheering and a woman.

Welcome home laddie boy, welcome home: march song

words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a battleship returning to the United States / Dunk, N.Y.

Welcome home

Welcome home

Brown University

lyric by Bud Green ; music by Ed. G. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers being welcomed home / Barbelle.