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99: 31: 159:. It calls upon the patriotic duty of citizens to help out the soldiers overseas by buying bonds and funding the war effort. The chorus line "Ev'ry bond that we are buying will help the boys to cross the Rhine. Buy bonds, buy bonds, for your boy and mine," is repeated throughout the song to emphasize the importance of buying bonds. 147:
The cover illustration features a soldier carrying a bayonet, with a grenade in his hand standing near a German trench ready to throw the grenade at the German soldiers. A later cover features a soldier playing the bugle with "Lady Liberty" standing with her hands on his shoulders.
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said the melody is "particularly catchy and the words are such that they bring the meaning of the Liberty Loan drive right to the home, and bands will be blazing forth its melody from coast to coast."
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World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics
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drive which looked to sell bonds in order to support the allied cause during
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and later reached No. 4 on the top 100 US songs of 1918 with a cover by the
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Index


Song
Composer(s)
Egbert Van Alstyne
Lyricist(s)
Gus Kahn

Egbert Van Alstyne
Gus Kahn
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Al Jolson
Peerless Quartet
Fourth Liberty Loan
World War I
The Music Trades
Liberty Bond
Songs of World War I



Freund, John C.
"Song Hit For Liberty Loan"
The Music Trades
"For Your Boy and My Boy"


World War I Sheet Music
ISBN
978-0786427987
OCLC

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