Patriotic Songs "Over There" Piano And Vocals

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"Over There" is a 1917 hit song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with United States military and public during both world wars. It was a patriotic song designed to galvanize American young men to enlist in the army and fight the "Hun". The song is best remembered for a line in its chorus, "The Yanks are coming."

As sung by early 20th century recording artist Billy Murray:

Verse 1

Johnny,[8] 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"[9] you're a son-of-a-gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly
Yankee Doodle[10] do or die.
Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee[11] to the ranks from the towns and the tanks.[12]
Make your Mother proud of you
And the old red-white-and-blue[13]
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.

*Collins, Ace (2003). Songs Sung, Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource. ISBN 0060513047., page 138-145.
Jump up ^ *Vogel, Frederick G. (1995). World War I Songs: A history of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers. ISBN 0-89950-952-5. OCLC 32241433., page 36.
Jump up ^ *Smith, Kathleen E. R. (2003). God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2256-2. OCLC 32241433., page 36.
Jump up ^ *Pegler, Martin (2014). Soldier's Songs and Slang of the Great War. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-0929-2. OCLC 900344548., page 72.
Jump up ^ Duffy, Michael. "Vintage Audio - Over There", FirstWorldWar.com, August 22, 2009, accessed July 12, 2013
Jump up ^ "Over there". pritzkermilitary.org.
Jump up ^ *Collins, Ace (2003). Songs Sung, Red, White, and Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs. HarperResource. ISBN 0060513047., pages 138-145.
Jump up ^ "Johnny" is a very common English given name and is used to address any anonymous man or men.
Jump up ^ Now usually sung "Johnny on the run...".
Jump up ^ Now usually sung as "Like true heroes..."
Jump up ^ Now usually sung as "Soldiers..."
Jump up ^ Short for "tank town", meaning any town so small its primary purpose was to provide water for steam locomotives.
Jump up ^ Now usually sung as "And to liberty be true."
In Boardwalk Empire:
The song was played during the end credits of the season finale, "To The Lost", episode 12, season 2
The song can be heard in the background of one of the final scenes of "Broadway Limited", episode 3, season 1
The song's beginning is used in the last scene of "No Brains Left Behind", season 4, episode 9, of Boston Legal.
When Niles learns that Frasier is no longer frequenting the Fox & Whistle in "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name", episode 10, season 5 of Frasier, he references the lyrics of "Over There" in his response: "I take it it's over over there."
"The Yanks are Coming", the title of an episode (series 3, episode 25) in the popular BBC science fiction sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, is derived from the above.
In Mad Men:
The song's chorus is heard over the credits to "The Arrangements", episode 4, season 3
Don Draper sings the song in the penultimate episode
Ann Marie sings the song for a television commercial audition in "My Sister's Keeper", episode 19, season 3, of That Girl.
The song appears in the fifth-season episode of The Golden Girls, "Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom," as the lullaby Rose's mom sang when she was a child. Later in the episode Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia sing it to Blanche as she is being wheeled off to surgery
Grampa Simpson sings the song while babysitting Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson in "The War of the Simpsons" from the second season of The Simpsons
The song is heard in the Tom and Jerry episode "The Yankee Doodle Mouse"