Cheer Up, Mother

"Cheer Up, Mother"
Song
Released1918
LabelShapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Songwriter(s)Mary Earl

"Cheer Up, Mother" is a World War I era song released in 1918. Mary Earl composed the music and wrote the lyrics.[1] Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. of New York, New York published the song. Artist Albert Wilfred Barbelle designed the sheet music cover. It features a mother saying good-bye to her soldier son.[2] It was written for both voice and piano.[3][4][5]

In the song, a son is comforting his mother before he heads off to war. The chorus is as follows:

"Cheer up, mother, smile and don't be sighing
Dry the teardrop in your eye;
We'll come back with colors flying
After the war clouds roll by,
Homeward bound then
We'll come sailing, mother.
We will win out, never fear;
Dad came home from fields of glory,
Maybe I'll repeat his story,
So cheer up, mother dear."

The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.[6]

References

  1. ^ Vogel, Frederick G. (1995). World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 162, 303. ISBN 0-89950-952-5.
  2. ^ Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Vol. 1. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-7864-2798-7.
  3. ^ "Cheer up, mother". University of South Carolina Digital Collections. University of South Carolina. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. ^ "JScholarship". JScholarship. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Cheer up, mother". Library of Congress. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  6. ^ Cheer up, mother. OCLC WorldCat. OCLC 24838498. Retrieved 26 January 2016.


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