Prologue:
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag
George Henry Powel/Felix Powel
© 1915
Wartime Follies Overture:
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Irving Berlin
Big Easter Vaudeville Carnival, 1911
They Didn’t Believe Me
Jerome Kern/Herbert Reynolds
The Girl from Utah, 1914
Goodbye Broadway, Hello France
Billy Baskette/Francis Reisner
The Passing Show of 1917
When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France
Alfred Bryan/Cliff Hess/Edgar Leslie
© 1918
Roses of Picardy
Frederic Weatherly/Haydn Wood
© 1916
I’m Old Fashioned
Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer
You Were Never Lovelier, 1942
The Real American Folk Song
George Gershwin
Ladies First, 1918
Funiculi, Funicula
Luigi Denza/Giuseppe Turco/Theodore Baker (English lyrics)
© 1880
You’d Be Surprised
Irving Berlin
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
In the Beautiful Garden of Girls
Gene Buck/Raymond Hubbell
Ziegfeld Follies of 1917
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
Jack Judge/Harry Williams
© 1912
I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Alfred Bryan/Al Piantidosi
The Peerless Quartet, 1915
Let’s All Be Americans Now
Irving Berlin/Edgar Leslie/George W. Meyer
The American Quartet, 1917
Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers*
Herman Darewski/RP Weston
© 1914
Over There
George M. Cohan
Columbia Records, 1917
Entr’acte:
Long, Long Trail A-Winding
Alonzo “Zo” Elliot
© 1914
Castle Walk Rag
James Reese Europe
© 1918
Can’t You Hear Your Country Calling**
Victor Herbert
Ziegfeld Follies of 1917
Dear Little Boy of Mine
Ernest R. Ball/J. Keirn Brennan
© 1918
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Irving Berlin
Yip, Yip, Yaphank, 1918
On Patrol in No-Man’s-Land
James Reese Europe
Harlem Hellfighters, 1917
If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany
George Meyer/Grant Clarke/Howard E Rogers
© 1918
Stay Down Here Where You Belong
Irving Berlin
Victor Records, 1914
Letters of Reflection
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Ivor Novello/Lena Guilbert Ford
© 1914
Send Love to Me Once In a While
Private David Keith
Love letter sent home, 1918
My Buddy Walter
Donaldson/Gus Kahn
© 1922
The Lads in Their Hundreds
George Butterworth/AE Houseman
© 1911
How Ya Gonna Kep ’em Down On the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)
Walter Donaldson/Joe Young
Sophie Tucker, 1919
The Last Rose of Summer
Thomas Moore/traditional
© 1805 (commonly sung at war memorials)
Everyone Sang (lyrics from 1919 poem)
Siegried Sassoon/Tedd Firth
The Story of a Rose, 2024
When the Ships Come Home
Jerome Kern/PG Wodehouse
Oh Lady! Lady!, 1918
God Bless America
Irving Berlin
Yip, Yip, Yaphank, 1918 (revised 1938)
