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We're Custer's Soldier Boys

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Title
We're Custer's Soldier Boys - Lyrics
Composer
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Lyricist
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Publisher
Camp Custer Music Co. (Battle Creek, MI)  
Lyrics
We’re Custer’s Soldier Boys Verse: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, And found for us a land we call our own. And since that great old day, when they named it U.S.A., Men from ev’ry nation call it home. In time of strife and need, we have shown by act and deed, That we’re loyal to the old red, white and blue. And now if fight we must, for a cause we know that’s just, We’ll show them what a soldier boy can do. Refrain: For we’re Camp Custer’s fighting soldier boys, we’re Yankee Doodle Doos, And when we start a fighting in that foreign land, There is goin’ to be a hot time raised by Uncle Sam, And we will give them what they want boys, ‘till the Kaiser has to groan. And when we lick the Hun, our duty will be done, And we’ll all come marching home. Verse: In days of yore when we needed aid, our soldier boys were not afraid, And gave their lives to keep this land our home. And now to this great land, comes a cry to lend a hand, To help to throw a tyrant fr
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 22, Folder 2
Local Identifier
2014_12996_764
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

Descriptive Information

Title
We're Custer's Soldier Boys
Composer
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Lyricist
Stevens, Vernon T.  
Publisher
Camp Custer Music Co. (Battle Creek, MI)  
Year of Publication
1917  
Date of Copyright
No copyright registered.
Lyrics
We’re Custer’s Soldier Boys Verse: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, And found for us a land we call our own. And since that great old day, when they named it U.S.A., Men from ev’ry nation call it home. In time of strife and need, we have shown by act and deed, That we’re loyal to the old red, white and blue. And now if fight we must, for a cause we know that’s just, We’ll show them what a soldier boy can do. Refrain: For we’re Camp Custer’s fighting soldier boys, we’re Yankee Doodle Doos, And when we start a fighting in that foreign land, There is goin’ to be a hot time raised by Uncle Sam, And we will give them what they want boys, ‘till the Kaiser has to groan. And when we lick the Hun, our duty will be done, And we’ll all come marching home. Verse: In days of yore when we needed aid, our soldier boys were not afraid, And gave their lives to keep this land our home. And now to this great land, comes a cry to lend a hand, To help to throw a tyrant fr
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 22, Folder 2
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_764
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
TitleWe're Custer's Soldier Boys
ComposerStevens, Vernon T.  
LyricistStevens, Vernon T.  
PublisherCamp Custer Music Co. (Battle Creek, MI)  
Year of Publication1917  
Date of CopyrightNo copyright registered.
LyricsWe’re Custer’s Soldier Boys Verse: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, And found for us a land we call our own. And since that great old day, when they named it U.S.A., Men from ev’ry nation call it home. In time of strife and need, we have shown by act and deed, That we’re loyal to the old red, white and blue. And now if fight we must, for a cause we know that’s just, We’ll show them what a soldier boy can do. Refrain: For we’re Camp Custer’s fighting soldier boys, we’re Yankee Doodle Doos, And when we start a fighting in that foreign land, There is goin’ to be a hot time raised by Uncle Sam, And we will give them what they want boys, ‘till the Kaiser has to groan. And when we lick the Hun, our duty will be done, And we’ll all come marching home. Verse: In days of yore when we needed aid, our soldier boys were not afraid, And gave their lives to keep this land our home. And now to this great land, comes a cry to lend a hand, To help to throw a tyrant fr
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 22, Folder 2
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier2014_12996_764
Collection TitleJames Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
CollectionJames Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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