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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
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
Record Series 12/9/96
Series 2, Box 14, Folder 8
Local Identifier
2014_12996_214
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
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
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
Record Series 12/9/96
Series 2, Box 14, Folder 8
Local Identifier
2014_12996_214
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
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
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
Record Series 12/9/96
Series 2, Box 14, Folder 8
Local Identifier
2014_12996_214
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Give My Sword to Daddy. (1916). James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/f61f3110-c556-0134-2373-0050569601ca-8