That's a Mother's Liberty Loan
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Title | That's a Mother's Liberty Loan |
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Publisher | M. Witmark & Sons |
Place of Publication | New York (N.Y.) |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-11-01 |
Lyrics | That’s a Mother’s Liberty Loan Verse: There’s a lonely little mother in a lonely little home tonight. She’s thinking of her soldier boy who marched away to fight. Though she’s only one in millions, and she has no gold to spare. Her tear-dimmed eyes just seem to say: “I think I’ve done my share.” Refrain: I gave my boy to Uncle Sam to fight for you and me. Just like his dad at Gettysburgh in Eighteen Sixty Three. If life must pay for liberty, I’m giving all I own. And when the battle is won, I’ll take back my son, That’s a mother’s liberty loan! Verse: Ev’ry night this lonely mother has a dream that makes her sad. She seems to see her soldier boy when he was but a lad. He is playing with his soldier toys, they’re scattered oér the floor. She never thought that someday he would hear the call of war. Refrain |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_665 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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