There's a Service Flag Flying at Our House
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Title | There's a Service Flag Flying at Our House |
Composer | Brown, A. W. |
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Publisher | Joe Morris Music Co. |
Place of Publication | New York (N.Y.) |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-12-22 |
Lyrics | There’s a Service Flag Flying at Our House Verse: See the people running, hear the rum-tum-tumming, military music fills the air. Ev’ryone is waiting, hearts are palpitating, flags are flying ev’rywhere. Of ev’ry allied nation, from nearly all creation, their banners wave from ev’ry staff and dome, But the one I love to see, that means so much to me, is the flag that’s flying at home. Refrain: There’s a service flag flying at our house, a blue star in a field of red and white. Father is so proud of what his boy has done, there’s a tear in mother’s smile and she murmurs “my son,” Perhaps he may return with fame and glory, but if by chance we lose him in the fight, There’ll be a service flag flying at our house and a new star in heaven that night, there’s a night. Verse: There beside old glory, telling all our story, until the end, that flag is going to fly. We are proud to show it, want the world to know it, we will do or we will die. There’s a million others, giving sons and brothers, |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_675 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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