For Your Country and My Country (1938 ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND film)

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©8 May 1917.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.


The sheet music.


Lyrics

  1. We know you love your land of liberty
    We know you love your U. S. A.
    But if you want the world to know it
    Now’s the time to show it
    Your Uncle Sammy needs you one and all
    Answer to the call

Chorus
It’s your country, it’s my country
With millions of real fighting men
It’s your duty, and my duty
To speak with the sword, not the pen
If Washington were living today
With sword in hand he’d stand up and say
“For your country and my country
I’ll do it all over again”

  1. America has opened up her heart
    To every nationality
    And now she asks of every nation
    Their appreciation
    It makes no difference now
    From where you came
    We are all the same