A WWI training camp song, 1917
First verse and chorus by Fort Niagara Soldier Boys
Second and third verses by E. S. Lorenz
Tune, “The Old Gray Mare”
Arranged by E. S. Lorenz
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Our Uncle Sam, he needs the infantry
He needs the cavalry, he needs artillery
And then, by gum, we’ll all go to Germany
God help Kaiser Bill
Chorus:
God help Kaiser Bill (God pity him)
God help Kaiser Bill (God pity him)
2. We hate the Kaiser’s ruthless barbarity
His beastly brutality, his fiendish atrocity
We hate his faithless, lying diplomacy
God help Kaiser Bill
3. We want no lands, we want no indemnity
We want all the earth to be free from autocracy
We want the wide world safe for democracy
God help Kaiser Bill
4. When Uncle Sam once gets the infantry
Once gets the cavalry, once gets the artillery
Then God help Bill
There’ll be mighty little left of him
God help Kaiser Bill
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: