Lest We Forget: World War I Music

Au Revoir but Not Goodbye, Soldier Boy was composed by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown, was performed by The Peerless Quartet, the most commercially successful group during World War I in the United States. 

Good-Bye Alexander: Good-Bye Honey-Boy was written by Henry Creamer, lyricist, and Turner Layton, songwriter. The pair were a well-known African American songwriting and vaudeville duo.  

In Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town, ballad writers Will R. Anderson and A. G. Delamater gives voice to an injured soldier tells his nurse that he longs for letters from home.

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning! expresses the dislike that soldiers feel towards the morning bugle call known as Reveille.  

Dorothy Rich Godfrey wrote this march in honor of the 318th Engineers, who supported U.S. Army operations during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. 

My Sweetheart Is Somewhere in France explores the wondering and worrying of women on the home front as they wait for news that their soldier is well.

I'm Crazy Over Every Girl in France references the experiences of young men and women going abroad and becoming interested in the men and women in foreign countries. 

I Don't Want to Get Well is a song about a soldier who does not want to get well and return to the front, but would rather be cared for by the nurse who cares for him.

After the War Is Over: Will There Be Any Home Sweet Home? captures the sense of devastation while still expressing hope for happiness and prosperity for future generations.

Homeward Bound expresses the hope that the war will end and that the soldiers will be returning home soon.

How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm: (After They've Seen Paree?) is a light-hearted expression of the concern that the world-traveled veterans would not want to settle back down to the relatively quiet farm life they came from before the war.