When the Old Boat Heads for Home
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Title | When the Old Boat Heads for Home |
Composer | Fuller, Earl |
Lyricist | Fuller, Earl |
Publisher | Douglas & Newman Music Co. (Broadway, NY) |
Year of Publication | 1918 |
Date of Copyright | 1918-03-15 |
Lyrics | When the Old Boat Heads For Home Verse: Mothers and sweethearts and dads, waiting for news from your lads, You have no reason to feel blue, for soon they’ll be back home with you, Fighting is going to cease, we’ll soon have vict’ry and peace, And when the good ship starts to sail o’er the sea, oh, what a time there will be. Refrain: When the old boat heads for home, ploughing her way thru the foam, Ev’ry one happy and gay, hats in the air, yelling “Hip, hip, hooray!” We’ll bring the old bacon home, never again will we roam, it’s bound to come, Say, won’t that be some day! When the old boat heads for home. Verse: Won’t ev’rybody feel proud, can you imagine the crowd? ‘Twill be the greatest ever known, to welcome all the boys back home, We’ve never lost in a row, you bet that we won’t lose now, We’ve got a real hard job, but when it is done, forever we’ll lay down the gun. Refrain |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_871 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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