Preparedness / words and music by Jerome Don Conor
| Title | Preparedness / words and music by Jerome Don Conor |
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| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music |
| United States -- Armed Forces -- Operational readiness -- Songs and music | |
| Popular music -- 1911-1920 | |
| Eagles -- Pictorial works | |
| Songs with piano | |
| Description | For voice and piano |
| Caption title: Respectfully dedicated to Major-General Leonard Wood, commanding Eastern Department, United States Army, Governors Island, N.Y.H. --Cover | |
| Patriotic march song --Cover | |
| Cover illustration of an eagle on a background of stars | |
| Source | Sheet Music Collection; Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
| Publisher | New York City : Louis J.K. Heil |
| Date | circa 1916 |
| Rights |
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| Format | Sheet music |
| Published works | |
| image/jpeg | |
| Type | Image |
| Text | |
| Identifier | SMC 04620 |
| https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/collections/item/30476 | |
| Alternative Title | First line of text: There's a word with a meaning that's not hard to guess;First line of chorus: P-R-E-P-A-R-E-D-N-E-S-S, we are not quite up to the standard |
| Date Modified | 2017-10-23 |
| References | http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b2907974~S9 |
VERSE 01: There’s a word with a meaning that’s not hard to guess/It begins with a “P” and it ends with an “S”,/And it means that at last our good old Uncle Sam/Has started to train for a powerful slam,/He will land on all comers who’re looking for fight,/Let their skins be of ebony, saffron or white,/If that call ever comes ah then well may we bless/The day that we learned to spell/Preparedness. CHORUS: P-R-E-P-A-R-E-D-N-E-S-S/We are not quite up to the standard/But we’re getting there never the less/And we’ll never stop till we reach the top/And there we are going to stay,/So give three cheers for/Prepareness,/Hip, Hip, Hooray. VERSE 02: There’s a bird called the Dove very gentle and nice,/It’s the symbol of peace bought at any old price;/But no longer it soars for the cruel foreign kinds/Have stopped it from flying by clipping its wings,/But the bald headed eagle with far seeing eye,/Now keeps scanning with care the American sky,/And if trouble appears there will sure be a mess/That bird is the symbol of Preparedness. | |
| Original Format | 1 score (3 p.) 35 cm |
