I didn't raise my boy to be a slacker / words by Happy Mack music by Eugene Platzmann
| Title | I didn't raise my boy to be a slacker / words by Happy Mack music by Eugene Platzmann |
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| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music;Popular music -- 1911-1920;Songs with piano;Bayonets -- Pictorial works |
| Description | For voice and piano;Caption title;"Dedicated to the B.P.O. Elks.";Cover illustration: a soldier and a sailor, with rifles and bayonets affixed, flank a photograph of a woman in a sailor suit with inset photograph of Happy Mack / by Dunk |
| Creator | Platzmann, Eugene |
| Publisher | New York : F.B. Haviland Pub. Co. |
| Date | 1917 |
| Contributor | Happy Mack;Dunk, Walter M., 1855- |
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| Format | Sheet music |
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| Type | Image |
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| Identifier | SMC06862 |
| https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/collections/item/37157 | |
| Alternative Title | First line of text: Uncle Sam is calling, boys, Old Glory waves across the sea;First line of chorus: I didn't raise my boy to be a slacker, I can see him in the thickest of the fray |
| Is Part Of | Sheet Music Collection, Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, University Libraries, Bowling Green State University |
| References | https://maurice.bgsu.edu:443/record=b2929437~S9 |
VERSE 01: Uncle Sam is calling, boys,/Old Glory waves across the sea,/The North and South are United in the cause of humanity,/The mother heart is aching as her boy sails away./But our fight is for right/And our mothers can proudly say:CHORUS: I didn't raise my boy to be a slacker,/I can see him in the thickest of the fray/A gun upon his shoulder, he's ev'ry inch a soldier,/For his daddy did his "bit" at Manilla Bay./And when he shoots a gun Gee! won't the Kaiser run,/Oh! say, can't you see that he fights for you and me?/And he won't come home till the Sammies win,/And our grand old flag waves over Berlin.VERSE 02: Your best friend is your mother,/It is a saying old but true,/No matter when or where or how she will always think of you,/If they branded you a slacker she'd hang her head in shame/Do your share! Go over there!/And win a hero's name: | |
| Original Format | 1 score (3 pages) 35 cm |
