The official recruiting song from 1917.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- 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”
- 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
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: