The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book

 

 

CANADIAN
SOLDIERS'
SONG
BOOK

GALAHAD . . . . . CRIED: "IF I LOSE MYSELF, I SAVE MYSELF!"

Tennyson; The Holy Grail

 

 

 

THE
CANADIAN SOLDIERS'
SONG BOOK

 

 

This edition of the Soldiers' Song Book is donated to the Y.M.C.A. by Mr. and Mrs. William Southam, of Hamilton, Ontario, in memory of their son, Gordon Hamilton Southam, officer commanding the 40th battery, C.F.A., 3rd division, who was killed at the Battle of the Somme, Oct. 15th, 1916.

 

 

 

INDEX

 

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PART I—NATIONAL SONGS

001—God Save the King.
002—Rule Britannia.
003—O Canada.
004—The Maple Leaf for Ever.
005—La Marseillaise.
006—The Star Spangled Banner.
007—Italian National Anthem.
008—Belgian National Anthem.
009—Anglo-American Anthem.

PART II—REVUE SONGS

010—Hello My Dearie.
011—I Shall See You To-Night.
012—Every Little While.
013—Let the Great Big World Keep Turning.
014—A Bachelor Gay.
015—Have a Heart.
016—Can't You See I Mean You.
017—Luana Lou.
018—Beware of Chu Chin Chow.
019—Some Sort of Somebody.
020—Wonderful Girl—Wonderful Boy.
021—Would You Believe It
022—Think of Me.
023—I Didn't Know the Way To.
024—Have You Forgotten.
025—Little Miss Melody.
026—Love Will Find a Way.
027—Where Did That One Go To
028—For Me and My Gal.
029—Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days.
030—Fancy You Fancying Me.
031—Down Texas Way.
032—That Dear Old Home of Mine.
033—Some Day I'll Make You Love Me.
034—I Like the Place Where the Peaches Grow.

PART III—PARODIES

035—Keep the Huns Retiring.
036—My Tunic is Out at the Elbows.
037—I Wonder Why I Work and Sigh the Way I Do.
038—Sure a Little Bit of Shrapnel.
039—Take Me Back to Dear Old Canada.
040—Rebecca from Sunnybrook Farm.
041—Roamin' in the Gloamin'.
042—Sunshine of Your Smile.

PART IV—SOLOS

043—When You Come Home.
044—Until.
045—A Perfect Day.
046—In the Garden of My Heart.
047—Good-Bye.
048—Friend of Mine.
049—Somewhere a Voice is Calling.
050—Roses of Picardy.
051—Asleep in the Deep.
052—For You Alone.
053—God Send You Back To Me.
054—Laddie in Khaki.
055—My Heart is Calling You.
056—The Rosary.
057—Just a Wearyin' For You.
058—If I Might Come To You.
059—Rose in the Bud.
060—Floral Dance.
061—Up From Somerset.
062—The Cobbler's Song.
063—Mighty Like A Rose.
064—Sunshine of Your Smile.

PART V—MISCELLANEOUS

065—All Night Long.
066—Moonlight Bay.
067—R-r-r-ip That Melody.
068—Taffy's Got His Jenny in Glamorgan.
069—When I Leave the World Behind.
070—Sing, Sing, Why Shouldn't We Sing.
071—Underneath the Stars.

072—Good-Bye-Ee.
073— Where Do We Go From Here
074—Over There.
075—There's a Girl for Every Soldier.
076—Swing Me in the Moonlight.
077—If I Could Turn the Clock Back a Year.
078—One Hour of Love With You.
079—You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Baby to Me.
080—The Magic of Your Voice.

PART VI—ENGLISH SONGS

081—Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes.
082—Juanita.
083—I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls.
084—John Peel.
085—Then You'll Remember Me.

PART VII—IRISH AIRS

086—When I Dream of Old Erin.
087—Killarney.
088—My Wild Irish Rose.
089—Come Back to Erin.
090—Dear Little Shamrock.
091—Where the River Shannon Flows.
092—A Little Bit of Heaven.
093—The Minstrel Boy.
094—Mother Machree.
095—Mountains O'Mourne.
096—Galway by the Sea.
097—Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms.
098—The Last Rose of Summer.

PART VIII—SCOTCH SONGS

099—Annie Laurie.
100—Loch Lomond.
101—Roamin' in the Gloamin'.
102—A Wee Deoch-an-Doris.
103—I Love a Lassie.
104—My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.
105—Comin' Thro' The Rye.

106—Mary of Argyle.
107—Scots Wha Hae.
108—My Ain Folk.
109—It's Nice When You Love A Wee Lassie.
110—Wedding o' Sandy McNab.
111—Breakfast in Bed on Sunday Morning.
112—It's Nice to Get Up in the Morning.
113—Mary.
114—The Campbells Are Coming.
115—I Love To Be A Sailor.

PART IX—HAWAIIAN SONGS

116—Hawaiian Butterfly.
117—Oh, How She Would Wicki-Wacki-Woo.
118—Yaaka-Hula-Hickey-Dula.

PART X— SOUTHERN MELODIES

119—My Old Kentucky Home.
120—Down Where the Swanee River Flows.
121—It's a Long, Long Way to My Home in Kentucky.
122—We'll Have a Jubilee in My Old Kentucky Home.
123—Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose.
124—Are You From Dixie.
125—Old Folks at Home.
126—Kentucky Babe.
127—Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.
128—Where the Black Eyed Susans Grow.

PART XI—HOME SONGS

129—The Little House Upon the Hill.
130—Little Gray Home in the West.
131—Auld Lang Syne.
132—The Song the Kettle is Singing on the Hob.
133—The Trail That Leads to Home.
134—I Love You Canada.
135—M-o-t-h-e-r-.
136—There's a Little Lane Without a Turning.
137—There's a Light Shining Bright in the Window To-Night.
138—In An Old Fashioned Town.

PART XII—HYMNS

139—Abide With Me.
140—All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name.
141—At Even Ere the Sun Was Set.
142—Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.
143—Eternal Father Strong to Save.
144—Faith of Our Fathers.
145—Fight the Good Fight.
146—Glory Song.
147—God Will Take Care of You.
148—He Will Hold Me Fast.
149—He Lifted Me.
150—Hold the Fort.
151—I Need Thee Every Hour.
152—Lead Kindly Light.
153—Nearer My God to Thee.
154—O God, Our Help in Ages Past.
155—O Love That Will Not Let Me Go.
156—Saviour Again to Thy Dear Name We Raise.
157—Shadows.
158—Soldiers of Christ Arise.
159—The Day Thou Gavest.
160—When Morning Gilds the Sky.
161—When Peace Like a River.
162—When the Roll is Called Up Yonder.
163—Who Could It Be?

 

 

 

Design on front cover is a drawing from the
Harper Memorial, Ottawa, Ont.