"Cheer Up, Mother" is a World War I era song released in 1918. Mary Earl composed the music and wrote the lyrics. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. of New York, New York published the song. Artist Albert Wilfred Barbelle designed the sheet music cover. It features a mother saying good-bye to her soldier son. It was written for both voice and piano.
In the song, a son is comforting his mother before he heads off to war. The chorus is as follows: "Cheer up, mother, smile and don't be sighing Dry the teardrop in your eye; We'll come back with colors flying After the war clouds roll by, Homeward bound then We'll come sailing, mother. We will win out, never fear; Dad came home from fields of glory, Maybe I'll repeat his story, So cheer up, mother dear."
The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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