Give My Sword to Daddy
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Title | Give My Sword to Daddy |
Composer | Andino, J. E. |
Lyricist | Albert, Julius N. |
Publisher | Julius N. Albert (Worchester, MA) |
Year of Publication | 1916 |
Date of Copyright | 1916-03-23 |
Lyrics | Give My Sword to Daddy Verse: Around the campfire’s dreaming the compan’y was at rest. The din of battle over, the sun sank in the West. Beside a dying soldier the chaplain bent to pray. The boy just stirred and murmured, these words I heard him say: Refrain: Give my sword to Daddy and tell him that I fell. Give my cross to mother dear and tell her all is well. We fought the battle bravely and when the day was done, There’ll be many a wife turned widow many mothers without her son. Verse: Now in a quiet graveyard, a soldier lays at rest. A poor old gray-haired mother a cross pinned on her breast, Is praying for her soldier who died so far away. Then turning to her husband, she sighed and seemed to say: Refrain |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_214 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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