(On to Paris or Berlin)
A popular song from 1914
words by L. Wolfe Gilbert
music by Lewis F. Muir
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s a big bound’ry line in my heart
What to do I am puzzled to know
There’s my daddy, my Ma and sweetheart
They’re apart, and it’s grieving me so
Alsace Lorraine holds my sweetheart
I don’t know which way to go
Chorus
Alsace Lorraine on to Paris or Berlin
Come back again
There are hearts that call within
Berlin, my father’s land
Paris my mother’s land
Oh what a plight I am in
Alsace Lorraine on to Paris or Berlin
- If I could, then I would please them all
That’s a thing that is so hard to do
If I should go and pay one a call
I’d be grieving the dear other two
Alsace and Berlin and Paris
I’ll bring them all over here
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: