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You all know I love
@ericwinterlinginc costumes in my life & every concert creation. One year ago, we walked into the wartime Follies of 1917 in “The Story of a Rose: A Musical Reverie of The Great War” commissioned by
@doughboyfoundation — and in part a tribute to my own Ziegfeld ancestry & the servicemen in my family— with songs that included:
Long, Long Trail A-Winding Alonzo “Zo” Elliot
© 1914 (written at
@yale )
Castle Walk Rag James Reese Europe
© 1918
Can’t You Hear Your Country Calling** Victor Herbert
Ziegfeld Follies of 1917
Dear Little Boy of Mine Ernest R. Ball/J. Keirn Brennan
© 1918
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning Irving Berlin
Yip, Yip, Yaphank, 1918
On Patrol in No-Man’s-Land James Reese Europe
Harlem Hellfighters, 1917
If He Can Fight Like He Can Love,
Good Night Germany George Meyer/Grant Clarke/Howard E Rogers
© 1918
Stay Down Here Where You Belong Irving Berlin
Victor Records, 1914
Letters of Reflection
Keep the Home Fires Burning Ivor Novello/Lena Guilbert Ford
© 1914
Send Love to Me Once In a While Private David Keith
Love letter sent home, 1918
My Buddy Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn
© 1922
The Lads in Their Hundreds George Butterworth/AE Houseman
© 1911
How Ya Gonna Kep ‘em Down On the Farm
(After They’ve Seen Paree?) Walter Donaldson/Joe Young
Sophie Tucker, 1919
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore/traditional
© 1805 (commonly sung at war memorials)
Everyone Sang (lyrics from 1919 poem) Siegried Sassoon/Tedd Firth
The Story of a Rose, 2024
When the Ships Come Home Jerome Kern/PG Wodehouse
Oh Lady! Lady!, 1918
God Bless America Irving Berlin
Yip, Yip, Yaphank, 1918 (revised 1938)
*additional lyrics by Melissa Errico
