Songs of the Great War

 

 

a printed handkerchief with the lyrics to 'Till the Boys Come Home'

A Number of Great War Songs

This is a short and very uncomplete listing of a number of songs

that were popular during the Great War or shortly afterwards.

The titles are useful for searches of the Internet for copies

of original old recordings.

Ada Jones - Good-Bye Alexander 1918

Al Bernard - What Has Become of Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo ? 1924

Albert Farrington - It's a Long Way to Tipperary

American Quartet with Billy Murray - It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary 1914

American Quartet with Billy Murray - Keep You Head Down Fritzie Boy 1918

Amparito Farrar - Madelon 1918

Arthur Fields - Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip 1918

Arthur Fields - Goodbye Broadway, Hello France 1917

Arthur Fields - How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm ? 1919

Arthur Fields - Hunting the Hun 1918

Arthur Fields - I Ain't Got Weary Yet 1918

Arthur Fields - Jim, Jim, I Always Knew That You'd Win 1919

Arthur Fields - Madelon 1918

Arthur Fields - Oh! Frenchy 1918

Arthur Fields - Oui, Oui, Marie 1918

Arthur Fields - Over There 1917

Arthur Fields - The Yanks Started Yankin' 1918

Arthur Fields - We Stopped Them at the Marne 1918

Arthur Fields - We'll Knock the Heligo into Heligo Out of Heligoland 1918

Arthur Fields - Would You Rather Be a Colonel 1918

Arthur Fields - You Can't Beat Us 1918

Billy Murray - America, I Love You 1916

Billy Murray - Cheer Up Liza 1918

Billy Murray - Goodbye Broadway, Hello France 1917

Billy Murray - Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo 1924

Billy Murray - K-K-K-Katy 1918

Billy Murray - Let's All Be Americans Now 1917

Billy Murray - My Dream of the Big Parade 1926

Billy Murray - Now I'll Have to Raise of My Own 1914

Billy Murray - Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh 1917

Billy Murray - Oui Oui, Marie 1918

Billy Murray - Over There 1917

Billy Murray - Sister Suzie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers 1914

Billy Murray - The Dixie Volunteers 1918

Billy Murray - The Further it is from Tipperary 1918

Billy Murray - The Last Long Mile 1918

Billy Murray - The War In Snider's Grocery Store 1915

Billy Murray - The Yanks Are At It Again 1918

Billy Murray - U.S. Army Camp Songs 1917

Billy Murray - War Song Medley 1915

Billy Murray - When I Get Back to the USA 1919

Billy Murray - When Tony Goes Over the Top 1918

Byron G. Harlan with the Peerless Quartet - Long Boy 1918

Charles Harrison - Send Me a Curl 1917

Charles Hart & Elliott Shaw - Rose of No Man's Land 1919

Charles Hart & Lewis James - Till We Meet Again 1919

Courtland & Jeffries - Good-Bye-Eee

Edna Thornton - Your King and Your Country Want You 1914

Enrico Caruso - Over There

Frank C Stanley - Just Before the Battle, Mother 1898

Frederick Wheeler - Keep the Home Fires Burning 1915

Frederick Wheeler - Wake Up America 1916

George Ballard - America, Here's My Boy

George Ballard - There's a Long Long Trail a Winding 1916

Golden & Heins - The Colored Recruits 1918

Harry Lauder - Don't Let Us Sing Anymore About War 1919

Harry Lauder - Granny's Laddie 1918

Henry Burr - Au Revoir, But Not Good-Bye, Soldier Boy 1918

Henry Burr - Don't Take My Darling Boy Away 1915

Henry Burr - Goodbye France 1919

Henry Burr - Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You 1916

Henry Burr - Hello Central ! Give Me No Man's Land

Henry Burr - Joan of Arc 1917

Henry Burr - Somewhere in France is a Lily

Henry Burr - Stay Down Here Where You Belong 1915

Henry Burr - The Battle In the Air 1918

Henry Burr - The Makin's of the U.S.A. 1918

Henry Burr - Wake Up, America 1916

Henry Burr - When My Ship Comes In 1915

Henry Burr - While You're Away

Henry Burr & Campbell - Till We Meet Again 1919

Imperial Marimba Band - General Pershing March 1918

Irving Berlin - Oh How i Hate to Get Up in the Morning

Irving Kaufman - Look What My Boy Got In France

Jack Norworth - The Further It is from Tipperary 1918

Jaudas Society Orchestra - Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh 1917

John McCormack - Keep the Home Fires Burning 1917

John McCormack - Roses of Picardy

John McCormack - There's a Long Long Trail a Winding

Jolly Good Fellows - A Lovely War, Mademoiselle From Armentieres

Lucy Isabelle Marsh - Just A-Wearyin' For You 1916

Marion Harris - Au Revoir But Not Goodbye Soldier Boy

Marion Harris - Good-Bye Alexander, Good-Bye Honey Boy 1918

Murray Johnson - Pack Up Your Troubles

New York Military Band - National Airs of the Allies 1918

Noble Sissile - All of No-Man's Land is Ours

Nobile Sissile - Dixie is Dixie Once More

Nobile Sissile - My Chocolate Soldier Sammy Boy

Nobile Sissile - On Patrol in No-Man's Land

Nora Bayes - A Little Bit of Sunshine 1918

Nora Bayes - Are You Prepaired for Summer ? 1916

Nora Bayes - Good-Bye France 1919

Nora Bayes - How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm ?

Nora Bayes - Over There 1917

Nora Bayes - Regretful Blues 1918

Nora Bayes - The Greatest Battle Song of All 1916

Nora Bayes - The Man Who Put the Germ in Germany 1918

Peerless Quartet - America, Here's My Boy 1917

Peerless Quartet - Au Revoir But Not Goodbye Soldier Boy 1918

Peerless Quartet - Darling Nellie Gray 1917

Peerless Quartet - For Your Country and My Country 1917

Peerless Quartet - Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip 1918

Peerless Quartet - I Ain't Got Weary Yet 1918

Peerless Quartet - I May Stay Away a Little Longer 1918

Peerless Quartet - I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind 1918

Peerless Quartet - Keep the Trench Fires Going for the Boys Out There 1918

Peerless Quartet - Liberty Bell 1918

Peerless Quartet - Over There 1917

Peerless Quartet - So Long, Mother 1917

Peerless Quartet - The Submarine Attack Somewhere at Sea 1918

Peerless Quartet - We Don't Want the Bacon (What We Want is a Piece of the Rhine) 1919

Peerless Quartet - We'll Do Our Share, Will You ? 1918

Peerless Quartet - We're All Going Calling On the Kaiser 1918

Peerless Quartet - We're Going Over 1918

Peerless Quartet - When I Send You a Picture of Berlin 1918

Peerless Quartet - While You're Away 1919

Peerless Quartet with Henry Burr - Merrily We'll Roll Along 1918

Peter Dawson - Roses of Picardy

Prince's Band - General Pershing March 1918

Reinald Werrenrath - Pack Up Your Troubles 1917

Reinald Werrenrath - The Americans Come ! 1919

Richard Tauber - Roses of Picardy

Rosa Ponselle - Keep the Home Fires Burning

Vernon Dalhart & Gladys Rice - Till We Meet Again 1918

British soldiers being treated to a road-side song

Back to Introduction