It's a long, long way to the trenches
Brown University
Tune: Tipperary. At head of text: Dedicated to the United States Soldiers.
Performance and Entertainment
Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.
This collection has the following subsets:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
It's a long way to dear old Broadway
Brown University
by Ernest Breuer and Geo. Fairman. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Elsie Janis is singing this song to our boys in the trenches"--Cover. A tribute to "Feist" songs, reprinted from The Saturday evening post: p. [4] Cover illustration: Five soldiers singing, thinking of "old Broadway." Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: Passing show of 1917. Dedicated to: Joseph E. Barrell and Eugene J. Orsenigo, 71st N.Y. Infantry. Cover illustration: soldiers marching / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Variant advertisements.
It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there!
Brown University
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Leon Flatow. March for voice and piano. Caption title.
It's a long way from the trench to Tipperary
Brown University
by Martin Mann. Pages [2,4] blank.
It's a long way from here to "over there": song
Brown University
words and music by Lew Payton. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: silhouette of soldiers marching.
It's a long way from Berlin to Broadway
Brown University
words and music by Harold B. Freeman. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4]
It's a long way down to the soup line
Brown University
by Joe Hill. Printed on pink paper. Page [1] within double line border with cut of wreathed torch. Page [2] contains appeal for Joe Hill Defense Fund. Page [3] poem entitled: It's a long, long way down to the soupline. Air: Tipperary. Page [4] lists I.W.W. locals and branches in San Francisco.
words and music by Zeph Fitz-Gerald. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier reading letter with camp in background / Barbelle
It's a habit
Brown University
Page [4] blank.
It's a grand old flag to fight for
Brown University
words by John H.G. Fraser ; music by Duncan E. Macpherson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Sergt. George "Doddy" Conners of Camp Devens. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Sergt. George "Doddy" Connors; drawing of battlefield scene with facsimile of letter signed by Woodrow Wilson / F. Gentsch.
It's a cold day when I get left
Brown University
Humorous account of life of a man about town. Humorous account of life of a man about town. words and music by Harry Miller. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: It's a very cold day when I'm left, you bet. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. Entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially mention of electric light.
It won't be long: till the boys come marching home
Brown University
words and music by Frankie Williams. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4 Cover illustration: photograph of woman / Moody, N.Y.
It won't be long before we're home: march song
Brown University
lyric by Paul Cunningham ; music by Joseph E. Howard. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] War slogan: p. 2-3. Cover illustration: photograph of Joseph E. Howard; drawing of soldier waving hat / K.
It won't be empty long
Brown University
It wasn't on the list
Brown University
It wasn't on the list
Brown University
It was your hair of chestnut brown: or, You asked me why I love you
Brown University
It was my last cigar
Brown University
It was many years ago: song
Brown University
by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus.
It was her love
Brown University
Printed in red and black on heavy paper. Text in red superimposed on reproduction of photograph of woman wearing onle shoes and stockings. Title from first line. Poem in four lines. Type-signed at end: John Reed. Photo: Chas. Stark. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.
It takes so little
Brown University
Page [4] blank. Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper; text in blue. On page [1] colored illustration of sailboat and spray of roses; text on pages [2]-[3] wreathed with roses. At end of poem: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.