Just like Washington crossed the Delaware, General Pershing will cross the Rhine / words by Howard Johnson music by Geo. W. Meyer theme suggested by Kate Elinore & Sam Williams

VERSE 01: Looking backward through the ages,/We can read on hist’ry’s pages,/Deed that famous men have done,/We are told of great commanders/Wellington and Alexanders/And the battles they have won./Take our own great Revolution/That began our evolution,/Washington then won his fame,/Today across the sea,/They’re making history,/The Yankee spirit still remains the same.
CHORUS: Just like Washington crossed the Delaware,/So will Pershing cross the Rhine,/As they followed after George,/At dear old Valley Forge,/Our boys will break that line./It’s for your land and my land/And the sake of Auld Lang Syne,/Just like Washington crossed the Delaware,/Gen’ral pershing will cross the Rhine.
VERSE 02: There upon the roll of honor,/Ev’ry one the soul of honor,/We find heroes of the past,/Like the ones who’ve gone before them/To our native land that bore them,/They were faithful to the last./As they fought for Independence,/You and I and our descendents/Must preserve Democracy,/In God above we’ll trust,/Our sword shall never rust,/We’ll tell the world it simply has to be.