"Over There" is a 1917 song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and public during both world wars. It is a patriotic song designed to galvanize American young men to enlist and fight the "Hun". The song is best remembered for a line in its chorus: "The Yanks are coming."[1]
Sheet music from 1917 featuring sailor William J. Reilly of the USS MichiganCover drawing of soldiers from sketch by Henry Hutt
As sung by early 20th-century recording artist Billy Murray:
Verse 1
Johnny,[a] get your gun, get your gun, get your gun. Take it on the run, on the run, on the run. Hear them calling you and me, Every Son of Liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today. Make your Daddy glad to have had such a lad. Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line.
Verse 2
Johnny, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun. Johnny, show the "Hun"[b] you're a son-of-a-gun. Hoist the flag and let her fly Yankee Doodle[c] do or die. Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit. Yankee[d] to the ranks from the towns and the tanks.[e] Make your Mother proud of you And the old red-white-and-blue.[f]
Chorus
Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming The drums rum-tumming everywhere. So prepare, say a prayer, Send the word, send the word to beware – We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there.
^ abMondello, Bob (December 20, 2018). "George M. Cohan, 'The Man Who Created Broadway,' Was An Anthem Machine". American Anthem. NPR. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
^"Over There". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
^*Collins, Ace (2003). Songs Sung, Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource. pp. 138–145. ISBN0060513047. Retrieved April 29, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^ abcGottlieb, Robert; Kimball, Robert, eds. (2000). Reading Lyrics: More than a Thousand of the Finest Lyrics from 1900 to 1975. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 17. ISBN9780375400810. Retrieved April 29, 2022 – via Google Books.
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Over There
Nora Bayes recording July 13, 1917, via U.S. Library of Congress, National Jukebox
Sheet music for "Over There", Leo Feist, Inc., 1917.
Over There from Patriotic Melodies
September 01, 2023
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