America's Call

DESCRIPTION: "America! Arise! Awake! Humanity calls for thee to take The lead in fighting for her sake! The ruthless Kaiser claims the seas...." Americans fought the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, etc.; time to fight again
AUTHOR: William G. Murdock (source: Shoemaker)
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (publication date, according to Shoemaker)
KEYWORDS: war
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, "America's Call" (1 text) (pp. 153-154 in the 1919 edition; not found in the third edition)
Roud #15009
NOTES [53 words]: The subtitle of this in Shoemaker's 1919 edition, "A Song That Will Live." Ironic that it was the first song in the 1919 edition to be purged in the later edition. To be sure, the end of World War I made it irrelevant, but it's hardly worse than any of the other non-traditional pieces Shoemaker afflicted upon us. - RBW
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File: SMMP153X

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