When a boy says good bye to his mother and she gives him to Uncle Sam / by Jack Frost
MLA Citation
Frost, Jack, 1893-1959. “When a boy says good bye to his mother and she gives him to Uncle Sam / by Jack Frost.” Digital Gallery. BGSU University Libraries, 23 May 2022, digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/20196. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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Title | When a boy says good bye to his mother and she gives him to Uncle Sam / by Jack Frost |
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Subject | Patriotic music -- United States |
Popular music -- 1911-1920 | |
Songs with piano | |
Description | For voice and piano |
Caption title: Cover photograph of a soldier wiping a tear from his mothers eye with a sailor on one side of the frame, a soldier on the other and an eagle along the bottom | |
Musical incipits on back cover | |
Creator | Frost, Jack, 1893-1959 |
Source | Sheet Music Collection; Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
Publisher | Chicago : Frank K. Root |
Date | circa 1917 |
Rights | |
Format | Sheet music |
Published works | |
image/jpeg | |
Type | Image |
Text | |
Identifier | SMC 04882 |
https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/20196 | |
Alternative Title | When a boy says goodbye to his mother and she gives him to Uncle Sam;First line of text: Ev'ry time I see a suit of khaki; First line of chorus: When a boy says good bye to his mother, and the sound of the bugle is heard |
Date Modified | 2017-03-20 |
References | http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b2908528~S9 |
VERSE 01: Ev’ry time I see a suit of khaki/I am proud, tho’ my heart is sad;/I think each time I see a Yankee Jackie,/He is some Yankee mother’s lad/Just think of how she watched and loved him since he was knee high,/Then think how her old heart must sigh. CHORUS: When a boy says goodbye to his mother,/And the sound of the bugle is heard,/He knows that tear in her eye means,/”Come back by and by,”/Tho’ her fond lips breathe never a word./All the angels are praying above her/That he’ll come back to Yankee land;/When a boy says goodbye to his mother,/And she gives him to Uncle Sam. VERSE 02: No one knows just how her soul is aching/When she whispers, “Come back again;”/And no one knows her heart is nearly breaking,/Still he knows she will not complain/For she’s a Yankee mother true and when it’s time to start,/She’s ready to do all her part. | |
Original Format | 1 score (3 p.) 35 cm |