"Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)" is a World War I era song released in 1917. Al Bryan wrote the lyrics. Fred Fisher composed the music.[1] It was published by McCarthy and Fisher, Inc.. André De Takacs designed the sheet music cover. It features a French soldier with his bayonet drawn in the foreground. A woman, who is a symbol of Liberty,[2] and child look on behind him.[3] The song was written for voice and piano.[4][5]
| "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)" | |
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| Song | |
| Released | 1917 |
| Label | McCarthy and Fisher, Inc. |
| Songwriter(s) | Composer: Fred Fisher Lyricist: Al Bryan |
The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.[6]
The song tells the story of a grenadier asleep by a campfire, dreaming of simpler times before the war. Specifically, he recalls times he spent in Lorraine and memories of the "quaint old-fashioned people" who lived in the villages of Alsace-Lorraine. This territory was under German control during the war, but France gained it back after the war.[1] This moment of nostalgia overwhelms him, and he cries out what is the chorus:[7]
- Lorraine, Lorraine
- My beautiful Alsace Lorraine
- You're in my heart forever to remain
- I see your village steeple
- Your quaint old fashioned people
- And I wouldn't care if
- I could be there again
- Lorraine, Heart of France.
- Part of France
- Someday when all my worries are through
- I'm coming to you, Lorraine
- Lorraine, O, welcome me home once again.
- to live and die in my Alsace Lorraine
References edit
- ^ a b Vogel, Frederick G. (1995). World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 51, 206. ISBN 0-89950-952-5.
- ^ "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)". The Tony Shuker Sheet Music Collection. 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Vol. 1. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 383. ISBN 978-0-7864-2798-7.
- ^ "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alscace Lorraine)". JScholarship. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Lorraine (my beautiful Alsace Lorraine)". Library of Congress. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ Lorraine: (my beautiful Alsace-Lorraine). OCLC 13465614. Retrieved 25 February 2016 – via OCLC WorldCat.
- ^ "Lorraine: my beautiful Alsace Lorraine". The University of Alabama Libraries. The University of Alabama. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
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