I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier / music by Al. Piantadosi lyrics by Alfred Bryan
MLA Citation
Piantadosi, Al, 1884-1955, Composer. “I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier / music by Al. Piantadosi lyrics by Alfred Bryan.” Digital Gallery. BGSU University Libraries, 23 May 2022, digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/20154. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
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Title | I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier / music by Al. Piantadosi lyrics by Alfred Bryan |
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Subject | Toy, Chee -- Portraits |
Tendehoa, Chief -- Portraits | |
Morton, Ed -- Portraits | |
Davis, Josephine -- Portraits | |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music | |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace -- Songs and music | |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Public opinion -- Songs and music | |
Soldiers -- Family relationships -- Songs and music | |
Mothers -- Songs and music | |
Sons -- Songs and music | |
Fear of death -- Songs and music | |
Popular music -- United States -- 1911-1920 | |
Songs with piano | |
Mothers -- Pictorial works | |
Sons -- Pictorial works | |
Combat -- Pictorial works | |
Fireplaces -- Pictorial works | |
Hugging -- Pictorial works | |
Tables -- Pictorial works | |
Knitting -- Pictorial works | |
Popular music -- 1911-1920 | |
Description | For voice and piano |
Caption title: Advertising includes musical incipits for There's a little spark of love still burning and On the shores of Italy | |
A mother's plea for peace --Cover | |
Teller, Sons & Dorner, New-York | |
Cover illustration: drawing of a mother embracing her son while sitting in a chair in front of a fireplace with her knitting on the table beside her and with scenes of a battle in the space above their heads portrait of 'Chee-Toy of the Ching Ling Foo Co.' on cop.1 portrait of Chief Tendehoa on cop.2 portrait of Josephine Davis on cop.3 portrait of Ed Morton on cop.4 | |
Respectfully dedicated to Every Mother--Everywhere --Caption | |
Creator | Piantadosi, Al, 1884-1955, Composer. |
Source | Sheet Music Collection; Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
Publisher | New York : Leo Feist |
Date | circa 1915 |
Contributor | Bryan, Alfred, 1871-1958, Lyricist. |
Starmer, Illustrator. | |
Leo Feist, Inc, Publisher. | |
Rights | |
Format | Sheet music |
Published works | |
image/jpeg | |
Type | Image |
Text | |
Identifier | SMC 03909b |
3190-4 Leo Feist, Inc | |
https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/20154 | |
Alternative Title | First line of text: Ten million soldiers to the war have gone;First line of chorus: I didn't raise my boy to be soldier |
Date Modified | 2017-03-28 |
References | http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b2902382~S9 |
VERSE 01: Ten million soldiers to the war have gone,/Who may never return again./Ten millions mothers’ hearts must break/For the ones who died in vain./Head bowed down in sorrow/In her lonely years,/I heard a mother murmur thro’ her tears: CHORUS: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,/I brought him up to be my pride and joy,/Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,/To shoot some other mother’s darling boy?/Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,/It’s time to lay the sword and gun away,/There’d be no war today,/If mothers all would say,/”I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier.” VERSE 02: What victory can cheer a mother’s heart,/When she looks at her blighted home?/What victory can bring her back/All she cared to call her own./Let each mother answer/In the years to be,/Remember that my boy belongs to me! | |
Original Format | 1 score (5 p.) 35 cm |