I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier Flashcards
What song did Fred White of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps find cynicall?
Nearer My God to Thee
What German Unteroffizier described a service in which they sung Oh, Wounded Head?
Johannes Haas
What tune was Cathedral de Reims sung to?
C’est si joli la femme
Why was the Rheims Cathedral targeted by the Germans in 1914?
Because of its ability to serve as an observational post
What newspaper called the destruction of the Rheims Cathedral the Kaiser’s Crowning Infamy?
The Daily News in London
What had Kings done at the Rheims Cathedral for generations?
Been consecrated at its alter with oil brought down from heaven by a dove
What American soldier had been an avid collector of songs from the Appalachian Region
John Jacob Niles
What were the only troops that John Jacob Niles found didn’t just repeat the latest hits but made up their own songs?
African-American troops
What African American song collected by John Jacob Niles had a mournful refrain?
Grave-Diggers
Who wrote The Bravest Heart of All?
Arthur J. Lamb and Henry Clique
Who was The Bravest Heart of All a tribute to?
Edith Cavell
Who was Edith Cavell
An English nurse and Red Cross hospital matron who helped Allied prisoners escape to Belgium and was executed by firing squad
Who wrote After The War is Over Will there be any Home Sweet Home?
E.J. Pour man, Joseph Woodruff and Henry Andrieu
What did Harry Hamilton and Ed Thomas write?
The Boys Who Won’t Come Home
Who wrote They Sleep in Fields of Battle?
Duncan J. Muir
Who wrote Where Where Is the Boy Who Went Over the Sea?
Marie Rich
What is the most famous poem of the world?
In Flanders Field
Who wrote In Flanders Fields?
Canadian physician John McCrae
What poet wrote about laughter and caring?
T.P. Cameron
Who recalled that they thought about everything but their tired feet?
Lieutenant Power
Who explained one musical torment targeted at commanding officers?
Rifleman Stanely Hopkins
What was the most humorous song heard by French soldiers and citizens?
Quand Madelon (When Madelon)
Who composed Quand Madelon and who added its words?
Camille Robert with words by Louis Basquet
Who is Madelon in When Madelon?
A flirtatious waitress who gets asked in marriage by a corporal, she refuses saying that she loves the whole regiment and she needs her hand to serve drinks
What was When the Roll is Called up Yonder retooled as?
When the Guns are Rolling Yonder
What WW1 song is still sung by Children at Halloween
The Hearse Song
What was Sing Me to Sleep retooled as?
Far, Far from Ypres
What was the song Kind Thoughts Can Never die retooled as?
Old Soldiers never die
What song was quoted by General Douglas McArthur during the Korean War?
Old Soldiers Never Die
What musicologist pointed out that McArthur forgot the second stanza’s text in Old Soldiers Never Die?
Glenn Watkins
What was one humorous song written during the war?
How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm
What was Irving Berlin’s humorous contribution to the war?
They were all out of step but Jim
The music played by makeshift trench orchestras included what composers?
Christoph Willibard Gluck, Frederic Chopin, Jules Massanet, Charles Marie Widor, Camille Saint Saens
Who was the Third Reich’s propaganda minister?
Joseph Goebbels
Most pacifist songs were from whose viewpoint?
The parents
What pacifist song had lyrics by Will Dillon and music by Albert Von Tilzer?
Don’t Take My Darling BoyAway
What was Irving Berlin’s contribution to Pacifism?
Stay Down Here Where You Belong
What is the subtitle for I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?
A Mother’s Plea For Peace, respectfully dedicated to every mother-everywhere
What is the tempo for I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?
Marziale or march like
Who wrote the music for I didn’t raise My Boy to Be A Soldier?
Al Piantadosi
Who wrote the lyrics for I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier?
Alfred Bryan
Who was the publisher for I didn’t raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?
Leo Frost
How many copies of I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier were sold in the first two months?
700,000 copies
What school principal taught I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier to his kids?
Alexander Fichandler
What national guard Major was annoyed at students learning what he dubbed anti-military propaganda?
Major Sydney Grant of the 18th Coast Artillery
When did the Victor Talking Machine Company withdraw I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?
April 1917 after America entered the war
What Irish melody does the first phrase of I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier have much in common with?
The Moreen
To what song did Thomas Moore set the lyrics for The Minstrel Boy?
The Moreen
What gives the mother’s plea extra poignancy in I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?
Chromaticism
What were the three parodies to I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?
I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Slacker, I’m going to Raise my Boy to Be a Soldier and a credit to the USA, I’m sure I wasn’t Raised to be a Soldier But I’ll Fight for the Dear Old Red White and Blue
