"We'll Build A Little Home In The U.S.A."--Irving Kaufman (1915) World War I song WWI
Irving Kaufman sings the World War I song titled "We'll Build A Little Home In The U.S.A." on Edison Blue Amberol 2695, issued in 1915 (two years before America entered the fight).
Music by Charles Elbert
Lyrics by Howard Wesley
A hundred thousand refugees
have fled from the war,
weary and worn, tired and torn.
Houses burning, no returning--
hearts overflow.
They're grieving at leaving
with no place to go.
As they toil on their way,
now I seem to hear them say:
We will build a little home in the U.S.A.
in the land of the stripes and stars.
We'll leave behind us the sorrows and cares
of war, and the Kaiser, the kings, and czars.
Uncle Sam spreads his arms across the ocean,
and I know he'll never turn us away,
so we'll sail across the foam, and
we'll build a little home in the U.S.A.
We'll go where we will never hear the guns' awful
roar, where there's no war--peace ever more.
Father, mother, sister, brother--happy they'll
be, all cheering while nearing our Liberty as
we speed on our way to the good old U.S.A.
"We'll Build A Little Home In The U.S.A." Irving Kaufman (1915) World War I song WWI Edison cylinder.
