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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)]


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.


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."