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Mother, Here's Your Boy!

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Title
Mother, Here's Your Boy! - Lyrics
Composer
  • Morse, Theodore  
  • Gottler, Archie  
  • Mitchell, Sidney  
Lyricist
  • Morse, Theodore  
  • Gottler, Archie  
  • Mitchell, Sidney  
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.  
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)  
Lyrics
Mother, Here’s Your Boy! (Mere, Voici Votre Enfant!) Verse: News has come to us from far across the foam, boys are coming back from “over there,” No more yearning for their safe returning home, ev’ry soldier boy has done his share. Now that the fight is through, to whom is the credit due? (Verse in French): Ecoutez voice c’qu’on apprend de tres loin, nos chers piou-pious on va les revoir, De se tourmenter pour eux plus n’est besoin, chaq’ p’tit soldat a fait son devoir. Et maint’nant qu’c’est fini, qui donc doit etre beni. Refrain: Mother, you gave your pride and joy, mother, you gave your boy. You sent him off with gun upon his shoulder, glad that your lad could be a soldier. He fought just like you’d want him to, he brought you peace and joy, Now that his fighting days are through, he belongs to you, So mother, here’s your boy! (Refrain in French): Votre, joie votre orgueil maman, vous don nat’ votre enfant, Vous l’avez envoye fusil sur l’epaule, content’ qu’il fut soldat l’noble rol
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 17, Folder 10
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_429
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
Mother, Here's Your Boy!
Composer
  • Morse, Theodore  
  • Gottler, Archie  
  • Mitchell, Sidney  
Lyricist
  • Morse, Theodore  
  • Gottler, Archie  
  • Mitchell, Sidney  
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.  
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)  
Year of Publication
1918  
Date of Copyright
1918-11-26
Lyrics
Mother, Here’s Your Boy! (Mere, Voici Votre Enfant!) Verse: News has come to us from far across the foam, boys are coming back from “over there,” No more yearning for their safe returning home, ev’ry soldier boy has done his share. Now that the fight is through, to whom is the credit due? (Verse in French): Ecoutez voice c’qu’on apprend de tres loin, nos chers piou-pious on va les revoir, De se tourmenter pour eux plus n’est besoin, chaq’ p’tit soldat a fait son devoir. Et maint’nant qu’c’est fini, qui donc doit etre beni. Refrain: Mother, you gave your pride and joy, mother, you gave your boy. You sent him off with gun upon his shoulder, glad that your lad could be a soldier. He fought just like you’d want him to, he brought you peace and joy, Now that his fighting days are through, he belongs to you, So mother, here’s your boy! (Refrain in French): Votre, joie votre orgueil maman, vous don nat’ votre enfant, Vous l’avez envoye fusil sur l’epaule, content’ qu’il fut soldat l’noble rol
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 17, Folder 10
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_429
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
TitleMother, Here's Your Boy!
Composer
  • Morse, Theodore  
  • Gottler, Archie  
  • Mitchell, Sidney  
Lyricist
  • Morse, Theodore  
  • Gottler, Archie  
  • Mitchell, Sidney  
PublisherLeo Feist Inc.  
Place of PublicationNew York (N.Y.)  
Year of Publication1918  
Date of Copyright1918-11-26
LyricsMother, Here’s Your Boy! (Mere, Voici Votre Enfant!) Verse: News has come to us from far across the foam, boys are coming back from “over there,” No more yearning for their safe returning home, ev’ry soldier boy has done his share. Now that the fight is through, to whom is the credit due? (Verse in French): Ecoutez voice c’qu’on apprend de tres loin, nos chers piou-pious on va les revoir, De se tourmenter pour eux plus n’est besoin, chaq’ p’tit soldat a fait son devoir. Et maint’nant qu’c’est fini, qui donc doit etre beni. Refrain: Mother, you gave your pride and joy, mother, you gave your boy. You sent him off with gun upon his shoulder, glad that your lad could be a soldier. He fought just like you’d want him to, he brought you peace and joy, Now that his fighting days are through, he belongs to you, So mother, here’s your boy! (Refrain in French): Votre, joie votre orgueil maman, vous don nat’ votre enfant, Vous l’avez envoye fusil sur l’epaule, content’ qu’il fut soldat l’noble rol
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 17, Folder 10
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier2014_12996_429
Collection TitleJames Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
CollectionJames Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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