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Songs of the War: CD 1

Below are links to discussions of all of the songs included on CD 1 of The Great War: An American Musical Fantasy. Navigate by clicking "Begin" below and selecting "Next" or "Previous" within the slideshow. You may also navigate the track discussions by clicking your browser's "Back" button from each slide and selecting the ones you want to peruse.

  1. There's a Long, Long Trail—John McCormack (1917)
  2. It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary—American Quartet (1914)
  3. Keep Your Eye on Uncle Sammy—Peerless Quartette (1914)
  4. War Talk at Pun'kin Center—Cal Stewart (1915)
  5. I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier—Morton Harvey (1915)
  6. Die Wacht am Rhein-Male Quartet [Excerpt] (ca. 1914)
  7. President Wilson's Historical Message, Part III [Excerpt 1]— Anonymous (1917)
  8. Schwertlied (Du Schwert an meiner Linken)—Arion Brooklyn (ca. 1916)
  9. Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You—Irving Kaufman (1915)
  10. America, I Love You!—American Quartet (1915)
  11. Stay Down Here Where You Belong—Henry Burr (1915)
  12. Don't Take My Darling Boy Away—Sam Ash (ca. 1915)
  13. President Wilson's Historical Message, Part III [Excerpt 2]—Anonymous (1917)
  14. What Kind of an American Are You?—Arthur Fields (1917)
  15. Let's All Be Americans Now—American Quartet (1917)
  16. Long Boy—Byron G. Harlan with Peerless Quartet (1917)
  17. The Ragtime Volunteers Are Off to War—Van and Schenck (1917)
  18. I'd Feel at Home if They'd Let Me Join the Army—Billy Murray (1917)
  19. (Good Bye; and Luck be With You) Laddie Boy—Nora Bayes (1917)
  20. I Don't Know Where I'm Going but I'm on My Way—Peerless Quartet (1917)
  21. Arrival of the American Troops in France—Prince's Band and Columbia Male Quartette (1917)
  22. When You Come Back (and You Will Come Back, There's the Whole World Waiting for You)—Raymond Dixon and Orpheus Quartet (1918)
  23. When We Wind Up the Watch on the Rhine—Peerless Quartette (1917)
  24. Throw No Stones in the Well that Gives You Water—Arthur Fields (1917)
  25. Paul Revere—Vernon Dalhart (1918)
  26. Lafayette (We Hear You Calling)—Reinald Werrenrath (1918)
  27. Somewhere in France Is the Lily—Charles Hart (1917)
  28. I'm Going to Follow the Boys—Elizabeth Spencer and Henry Burr (1917)
  29. Over There—Enrico Caruso (1918)