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The song was written for both voice and piano. [3] [4] On December 10, 1918, Lauder recorded the song with conductor Josef Pasternack. It was released by Victor Records. [5] The lyrics are a celebration of the end of war. The chorus, the proclamations of excited soldiers, is as follows: [6] "Hurray, the war is over! Hurray, the fight is won!
I'm Goin' to Fight My Way Right Back to Carolina; I'm Going to Follow the Boys; I'm Hitting the Trail to Normandy: So Kiss Me Goodbye; I'm Proud to Be the Sweetheart of a Soldier; I'm Sorry I Made You Cry; I'm Writing to You, Sammy; I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now; If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!
Good-bye-ee!" is a popular song written and composed by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee. [1] Performed by music hall stars Florrie Forde, Daisy Wood, and Charles Whittle, it was a hit in 1917. [1] Weston and Lee got the idea for the song when they saw a group of factory girls calling out goodbye to soldiers marching to Victoria station. [1]
"Mrs. McGrath" is an Irish song describing a young man named Ted who enters the British Army and returns seven years later having lost his legs to a cannonball while fighting against Napoleon presumably at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (fought between 3 and 5 May 1811).
"Bless 'Em All", also known as "The Long and the Short and the Tall" and "Fuck 'Em All", is a war song. The words have been credited to Fred Godfrey in 1917 set to music composed by Robert Kewley, however, early versions of the song may have existed amongst British military personnel in the 1880s in India.
Monod, David. "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier: : Popular Song and American Neutrality, 1914–1917" War in History (2017) 24#4: 438-457. Abstract; Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition: Songs of World Wars I & II. Recorded Anthology of American Music, 1977. OCLC 221633326
Parker, Bernard S. World War I Sheet Music: 9,670 Patriotic Songs Published in the United States, 1914–1920, with More Than 600 Covers Illustrated. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2007. ISBN 0-7864-2798-1 OCLC 71790113; Paas, John Roger (2014). America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10278-0.
Sgt. MacKenzie" is a lament written and sung by Joseph Kilna MacKenzie (1955-2009), [1] in memory of his great-grandfather who was killed in combat during World War I. It has been used in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers and the ending scene of the 2012 film End of Watch .