A popular song from 1918
Words by Addison Burkhart
Music by Al. Piantadosi and Jack Goulau
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Cheer up mothers, dry your tears
He’s coming back to you.
Sweethearts you’ll soon hear the cheers
For your hero true.
Battles’ roar he’ll hear no more,
Soon he’ll sail from France’s shore,
When he’s paid the debt he owes to Lafayette,
He will say good-bye and cry.
Chorus
All aboard for home sweet home again to the girl I left behind,
I’ll go sailing ‘cross again. What a welcome there I’ll find.
And the day that I return to her, I will make that girl my own.
Hello dear hometown I’m homeward bound.
All aboard for home sweet home.
Verse 2
When our boys sail up the Bay,
A great day that will be.
They’ll be more than proud to say, Hello Liberty.
With joy our hearts will soon be filled,
Soon our France we will rebuild.
For you’ve been true blue, so now we say to you
“Au Revoir” but not “Good-bye”.
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: