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Posted By: masato sakurai
05-Nov-02 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: Help: WWI song about nurse at the front
Subject: RE: Help: WW1 song about nurse at the front
Additions, some nurse songs from the Levy collection:
Title: The Little Red-Cross-Nurse. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words and Music by John H. McDonald. Publication: Baltimore: Maryland Music Pub. Co., 1918. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: We sing about our soldiers who have cross'd the ocean blue First Line of Chorus: Nurse, nurse, faithful little nurse, with a red cross on your arm Dedicatee: Dedicated to The American Red Cross
Title: Dear Little Mary, Soldiers' Nurse. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Lyric and Music by Frank G. McPherson. Publication: Beaver Falls, Penna.: McPherson Publishers, 1917. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Why should nations worry, and try to rule the earth? First Line of Chorus: Dear little Mary, Red Cross Nurse, came like a fairy, to soothe war's curse "To woman, whom in times of war, Goes forth to save, and loseth not, The lives of them that she has brought. To her, this work is gratefully dedicated."
Title: Good-night, Nurse. Comic Song. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Thomas J. Gray. Music by W. Raymond Walker. W. Raymond Walker Publication: New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1912. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Now Sam McKee was sick and he was taken to a hospital First Line of Chorus: Good-night, Nurse! tell the Doctor I'm no better
Title: That Red Cross Girl of Mine. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: By Ed. C. Cannon. Publication: Toronto, Canada: Ideal Music, 17 Adelaide St., 1917. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: There are Sue and Jane in their uniforms with a band around their arm First Line of Chorus: I'll go to sleep tonight and dream of that Red Cross Girl of mine
Title: My Red Cross Girlie. The Wound is Somewhere in My Heart. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Lyric by Harry Bewley. Music by Theodore Morse. Theodore Morse Publication: New York: Leo. Feist, Inc., 1917. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Ev'ry Red Cross girlie likes a soldier there's a felling in her heart akin to love First Line of Chorus: My Red Cross girlie, for you I'm calling, tho' you're many miles away
Title: Oh Frenchy. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Sam Ehrlich. Music by Con Conrad. Con Conrad Publication: New York: Broadway Music Corporation, Will Von Tilzer, President, 145 West 45th St., 1918. Form of Composition: strophic with chorus Instrumentation: piano and voice First Line: Rosie Green was a village queen, who enlisted as a nurse First Line of Chorus: Frenchy, oh Frenchy, Frenchy, although your language is so new to me