Lyr Add: The Hero of the European War (1916 US)

21 Jun 05 - 03:48 AM (#1505755)
Subject: Lyr Add: The Hero of the European War (1916 US)
From: chico

  D          E7                     A 
  If you're English or German or French,
   D        E7                              A
  And your heart's 'cross the sea -- to a trench,
    7    C#7                       F#           7
  While you're sympathising, you wonder who'll be,
       E    B7     E      B7      E  B7 E 
  The hero of the biggest war in history,
  When the guns are laid away,
        7
  and Peace has come to stay 
                       B7         E  (7)
  Whose name will be famous that day?
  
  CHORUS
         D  F° A  (A°)  A
  Is it Hindenburg or Juffre
            7              E7
  Who will wear a hero's crown!
           Bm                     D
  Who will be the one, Just like Washington,
   C#m              C#      7   
  When the European war is done, 
          D    F°     A   (A°) A  
  In my mind there's just one hero,
            7                E7           D  (Bb° Bm)
  Woodrow Wilson's name will live forevermore,
        C#7       Bm        D#°    F#°     A      7 (F#7)
  For there's no doubt of it,  he kept us out of it,
                B7         Bm   E7   A
  And he's the hero of the European war.
  
  If you love the American flag,
  Ev'ry Yankee should start -- in to brag,
  For we have a hero in the U. S. A.
  Whose name and fame will live forever and a day,
  And we'll have him four years more,
  within the White House door,
  To keep us a Peace as before.
  
  [Campaign of 1916 Theme song for Woodrow Wilson. Words by Al. Dubin, Music by Joseph A. Burke and George B. McConnell (1916)]
  

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21 Jun 05 - 05:44 AM (#1505820)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Hero of the European War (1916 US)
From: masato sakurai

Sheet music at the Levy collection:

Title: The Hero of the European War.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Al Dubin. Music by Jos. A. Burke & Geo. B. McConnell.
Jos. A. Burke Geo. B. McConnell Publication: Philadelphia: Emmett J. Welch, Colonial Theatre Wilson Bldg., 13th St. below Chestnut St., 1916.

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21 Jun 05 - 08:54 AM (#1505927)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Hero of the European War (1916 US)
From: masato sakurai

Lyrics & midi are at Public Domain Music: Early 20th Century American Music (1900-1924). Go to "1916."

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