{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/992ea540-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-1/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"America for Me!","metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"America for Me!"},{"label":"Composer","value":"Smith, E. L. (Ella Letitia), 1857-1928"},{"label":"Lyricist","value":"Van Dyke, Henry"},{"label":"Publisher","value":"A. K. DeLemos \u0026 Co."},{"label":"Place of Publication","value":"Newark (N.J.)"},{"label":"Year of Publication","value":"1918"},{"label":"Date of Copyright","value":"1918-03-11"},{"label":"Physical Description","value":"1 score, voice and piano ([1], 2-3, [1] p.)"},{"label":"Type","value":"Musical notation"},{"label":"Comment","value":"Smith published this in conjunction with \"If You're Going to Join the Army, Play the Game!\" on the same day and with very similar covers. Both songs are well made, but there is no indication that either attained any degree of public recognition."},{"label":"Historical Note","value":["This was the only printing, and no piano rolls or recordings have been found, nor any performances or advertisements.","Van Dyke’s poem appeared in his Poems (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911), which is credited in the copyright note. The beginning and ending of the verses, as well as the opening of the refrain, recall but do not quote \"Home Sweet Home.\"","The cover imprint reads \"for sale by\" A. K. DeLemos; the actual publisher may therefore be Ella Letitia Smith, to whom the copyright was registered."]},{"label":"Musical Note","value":"This ballad in quadruple meter contains rhythms that suggest a march song. The beginning of the refrain quotes the penultimate melodic line of \"Home Sweet Home\" (\"There's no place like home\")."},{"label":"Dedication","value":"Dedication"},{"label":"Subject - Topic","value":["World War, 1914-1918","Songs and music","Popular music","Home","Patriotic music"]},{"label":"Subject - Geographic","value":"United States"},{"label":"Subject - Temporal","value":"1911-1920"},{"label":"Lyrics","value":["[verse 1] 'Tis fine to see the old world and travel up and down / Among the famous palaces and cities of renown / To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings, / But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.","[refrain 1] So it's home again, and home again America for me! / My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be / In the land of youth and freedom, beyond the ocean bars / Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. ","[verse 2] Oh London is a man's town there's power in the air / And Paris is a woman's town with flowers in her hair / And it's sweet to dream of Venice and it's great to study Rome / But when it comes to living there's no place like home.","[refrain 2]"]},{"label":"Musical Genre","value":"Ballad"},{"label":"Repository","value":"Newberry Library"},{"label":"Rights","value":"No Copyright - United States"},{"label":"Rights Description","value":"The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information."},{"label":"Printer","value":"p. 3, BR: F. J. Lawson Co. N.Y."},{"label":"Cover Description","value":"Text only, with a small art deco ornament around the word \"song."},{"label":"Back Cover Description","value":"Blank."},{"label":"Interior Description","value":"Plate number: p. 3, BL: America for Me"},{"label":"Performance Medium","value":"Voice and piano."},{"label":"Original Location","value":"Box 163"},{"label":"Local Identifier","value":"nda163_041"},{"label":"Collection Title","value":"James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music"}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://images.digital.library.illinois.edu/iiif/2/e3467fa0-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-0/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://images.digital.library.illinois.edu/iiif/2/e3467fa0-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"service":[{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://images.digital.library.illinois.edu/iiif/2/e3467fa0-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}],"logo":"https://digital.library.illinois.edu/assets/Illinois-Logo-Reversed-Orange-RGB-100-4dc138603db54952c91732afd189efd828ba543796a2ab0f9a81afcf2b308b27.png","related":{"@id":"https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/992ea540-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-1","format":"text/html"},"seeAlso":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/992ea540-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-1.json","format":"application/json"},{"@id":"https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/992ea540-e466-0135-4ad8-0050569601ca-1.atom","format":"application/atom+xml"}],"viewingDirection":"left-to-right","viewingHint":"paged","navDate":"1918-01-01T06:00:00Z","license":"https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/","attribution":"The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. 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