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Their song never quite attained the success that attended an earlier, rival rebuttal, \"America, Here's My Boy\"; but since it appeared just a month after the United States had declared war, it also functioned very successfully as a recruiting song, remaining steadily popular through the war years and beyond.","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":null,"dcterms":null}},{"name":"historicalNote","value":"The artist, LPN, has not yet been identified. The cover gives Lincoln and Wilson equal prominence, but the lyrics conclude with a slightly modified quotation from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, whereas Wilson is neither mentioned nor quoted.","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":"description","dcterms":"description"}},{"name":"historicalNote","value":"Like Andrew Sterling's earlier \"America, Here's My Boy,\" Bryan's lyrics for the refrain closely parallel those of \"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier\": the structure and rhyme scheme is the same, the first and third lines closely paraphrase the earlier song, and the break in the penultimate line recalls the earlier internal rhyme. However, unlike Sterling, Bryan made no attempt to preserve either the structure of the verse nor the difference between narrative and voice that characterised the original. 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The verse quotes \"Yankee Doodle\" in the penultimate line of music, confirming the quotation in the lyrics of the second verse.","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":null,"dcterms":null}},{"name":"provider","value":"Sousa Archives and Center for American Music","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":null,"dcterms":null}},{"name":"rights","value":"No Copyright - United States","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","vocabulary":"RightsStatements.org","mappings":{"dc":"rights","dcterms":"rights"}},{"name":"accessRights","value":"This item is in the public domain.","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":"rights","dcterms":"accessRights"}},{"name":"backCoverDescription","value":"Text and sample: Star Dance Folio No. 17b (advertised 1917 03 08); sample cover above, in art deco frame with vines; two bordering lists below (\"New Song Hits\", top title: You're a Great Big Lonesome Baby; \"New Instrumental Hits\", top title: Harmony Blues); most recent title listed: You're a Great Big Lonesome Baby (© 1917 07 18).","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":"description","dcterms":"description"}},{"name":"backCoverDescription","value":"Bottom: 3016 8","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":"description","dcterms":"description"}},{"name":"localId","value":"2014_12996_284","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":null,"dcterms":null}},{"name":"isPartOf","value":"James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection","uri":null,"vocabulary":"Uncontrolled","mappings":{"dc":"relation","dcterms":"isPartOf"}}],"binaries":[],"children":["https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/11813550-c55b-0134-2373-0050569601ca-f.json","https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/11742970-c55b-0134-2373-0050569601ca-0.json","https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/117935c0-c55b-0134-2373-0050569601ca-8.json","https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/115539c0-c55b-0134-2373-0050569601ca-a.json","https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/117cc9b0-c55b-0134-2373-0050569601ca-1.json"],"created_at":"2017-02-21T18:38:35.751Z","published_at":"2022-07-07T15:16:20.987Z","updated_at":"2025-11-12T15:27:41.842Z"}