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Are You Lending a Hand to Yankee Land?

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Title
Are You Lending a Hand to Yankee Land? - Lyrics
Composer
Tice, Blanche M.  
Lyricist
Callahan, J. Will  
Publisher
Blanche M. Tice Music Pub. Co. (Sioux City, IA)  
Year of Publication
1918  
Lyrics
  • Far away across the ocean heroes fight for you and me, braving all with true devotion, dying for liberty
  • while the flag they are defending
  • let me ask of you, if a helping hand you’re lending, and doing what you can do. Are you lending a hand to Yankeeland, the country that gave you birth? Are you showing that you are staunch and true, and proving your honest worth? Are you standing the test, and doing your best, just like all the rest, from east to the west? Are you lending a hand to Yankeeland, the grandest of lands on earth? Ev’rything we love and cherish, ev’ry blessing, great or small, even home itself would perish, if once the flag should fall
  • ask yourself each night and morning when you kneel to pray, “Have I heard my country’s warning, and heeded in ev’ry way?”
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 12, Folder 4
Local Identifier
2014_12996_042
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
Are You Lending a Hand to Yankee Land?
Composer
Tice, Blanche M.  
Lyricist
Callahan, J. Will  
Publisher
Blanche M. Tice Music Pub. Co. (Sioux City, IA)  
Year of Publication
1918  
Date of Copyright
1918-09-28
Lyrics
  • ask yourself each night and morning when you kneel to pray, “Have I heard my country’s warning, and heeded in ev’ry way?”
  • let me ask of you, if a helping hand you’re lending, and doing what you can do. Are you lending a hand to Yankeeland, the country that gave you birth? Are you showing that you are staunch and true, and proving your honest worth? Are you standing the test, and doing your best, just like all the rest, from east to the west? Are you lending a hand to Yankeeland, the grandest of lands on earth? Ev’rything we love and cherish, ev’ry blessing, great or small, even home itself would perish, if once the flag should fall
  • while the flag they are defending
  • Far away across the ocean heroes fight for you and me, braving all with true devotion, dying for liberty
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 12, Folder 4
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_042
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
TitleAre You Lending a Hand to Yankee Land?
ComposerTice, Blanche M.  
LyricistCallahan, J. Will  
PublisherBlanche M. Tice Music Pub. Co. (Sioux City, IA)  
Year of Publication1918  
Date of Copyright1918-09-28
Lyrics
  • ask yourself each night and morning when you kneel to pray, “Have I heard my country’s warning, and heeded in ev’ry way?”
  • let me ask of you, if a helping hand you’re lending, and doing what you can do. Are you lending a hand to Yankeeland, the country that gave you birth? Are you showing that you are staunch and true, and proving your honest worth? Are you standing the test, and doing your best, just like all the rest, from east to the west? Are you lending a hand to Yankeeland, the grandest of lands on earth? Ev’rything we love and cherish, ev’ry blessing, great or small, even home itself would perish, if once the flag should fall
  • while the flag they are defending
  • Far away across the ocean heroes fight for you and me, braving all with true devotion, dying for liberty
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 12, Folder 4
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier2014_12996_042
Collection TitleJames Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
CollectionJames Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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