I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier [sheet music]
by Bryan, Alfred; Al Piantadosi; Ed. Morton
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About This Item
New York: Leo Feist, 1915. 4p., sheet music, rather worn, with some edge tears, interior tape reinforcement, penned ownership signature; a reference or display copy only. "Ed. Morton's sensational anti-war song hit." "Ten million soldiers to the war have gone,
Who may never return again.
Ten million mothers' hearts must break,
For the ones who died in vain.
Head bowed down in sorrow in her lonely years,
I heard a mother murmur thro' her tears:
Chorus:
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier,
I brought him up to be my pride and joy,
Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder,
To shoot some other mother's darling boy?
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,
It's time to lay the sword and gun away,
There'd be no war today,
If mothers all would say,
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier...
Who may never return again.
Ten million mothers' hearts must break,
For the ones who died in vain.
Head bowed down in sorrow in her lonely years,
I heard a mother murmur thro' her tears:
Chorus:
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier,
I brought him up to be my pride and joy,
Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder,
To shoot some other mother's darling boy?
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,
It's time to lay the sword and gun away,
There'd be no war today,
If mothers all would say,
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier...
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier [sheet music]
- Author
- Bryan, Alfred; Al Piantadosi; Ed. Morton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Leo Feist
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1910S; Pacifism; Anti-war; World War I; songs, lyrics;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
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