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My Red Cross Girlie (The Wound Is Somewhere In My Heart)

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Title
My Red Cross Girlie (The Wound Is Somewhere In My Heart) - Lyrics
Composer
Morse, Theodore  
Lyricist
Bewley, Harry  
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.  
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)  
Lyrics
My Red Cross Girlie (The Wound is Somewhere in My Heart) Verse: Ev’ry Red Cross girlie likes a soldier, there’s a feeling in her heart akin to love. Some laddie with a gun up on his shoulder, very often is the one she’s thinking of. Ev’ry soldier laddie has a yearning for some noble girlie all in white, In his heart the light of love is always burning, for a little red cross girlie day and night. Refrain: My Red Cross girlie for you I’m calling tho’ you’re many miles away, My Red Cross girlie, for you I’m falling, longing for you night and day. I need you sweetheart, for I am wounded, by a cunning fellows dart. But don’t swoon dear for the wound, dear, is only somewhere in my heart. Verse: Ev’ry girlie loves a soldier laddie, and ev’ry girlie loves a boy sincere. She loves him better sometimes than her daddy, proud of one who doesn’t know the thing called fear. A soldier who goes into battle tireless, doesn’t mind the cannon’s shot and shell, If this message he can only send by wireles
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Record Series 12/9/96
  • Series 2, Box 14, Folder 9
Local Identifier
2014_12996_243
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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Title
My Red Cross Girlie (The Wound Is Somewhere In My Heart)
Composer
Morse, Theodore  
Lyricist
Bewley, Harry  
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.  
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)  
Year of Publication
1917  
Date of Copyright
1917-10-13
Lyrics
My Red Cross Girlie (The Wound is Somewhere in My Heart) Verse: Ev’ry Red Cross girlie likes a soldier, there’s a feeling in her heart akin to love. Some laddie with a gun up on his shoulder, very often is the one she’s thinking of. Ev’ry soldier laddie has a yearning for some noble girlie all in white, In his heart the light of love is always burning, for a little red cross girlie day and night. Refrain: My Red Cross girlie for you I’m calling tho’ you’re many miles away, My Red Cross girlie, for you I’m falling, longing for you night and day. I need you sweetheart, for I am wounded, by a cunning fellows dart. But don’t swoon dear for the wound, dear, is only somewhere in my heart. Verse: Ev’ry girlie loves a soldier laddie, and ev’ry girlie loves a boy sincere. She loves him better sometimes than her daddy, proud of one who doesn’t know the thing called fear. A soldier who goes into battle tireless, doesn’t mind the cannon’s shot and shell, If this message he can only send by wireles
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 14, Folder 9
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_243
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
TitleMy Red Cross Girlie (The Wound Is Somewhere In My Heart)
ComposerMorse, Theodore  
LyricistBewley, Harry  
PublisherLeo Feist Inc.  
Place of PublicationNew York (N.Y.)  
Year of Publication1917  
Date of Copyright1917-10-13
LyricsMy Red Cross Girlie (The Wound is Somewhere in My Heart) Verse: Ev’ry Red Cross girlie likes a soldier, there’s a feeling in her heart akin to love. Some laddie with a gun up on his shoulder, very often is the one she’s thinking of. Ev’ry soldier laddie has a yearning for some noble girlie all in white, In his heart the light of love is always burning, for a little red cross girlie day and night. Refrain: My Red Cross girlie for you I’m calling tho’ you’re many miles away, My Red Cross girlie, for you I’m falling, longing for you night and day. I need you sweetheart, for I am wounded, by a cunning fellows dart. But don’t swoon dear for the wound, dear, is only somewhere in my heart. Verse: Ev’ry girlie loves a soldier laddie, and ev’ry girlie loves a boy sincere. She loves him better sometimes than her daddy, proud of one who doesn’t know the thing called fear. A soldier who goes into battle tireless, doesn’t mind the cannon’s shot and shell, If this message he can only send by wireles
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 14, Folder 9
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier2014_12996_243
Collection TitleJames Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
CollectionJames Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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