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Canadian WWI soldier and composer Lt. Gitz Rice

You've Got to Go in or Go Under
(by Canadian WWI Soldier hero)

Words by Percival Knight
Music by Lieutenant Gitz Rice, First Canadian Contingent
Copyright: 1918 by G. Ricordi & Co, New York
Format: large

Original retail price: 30¢
As Sung in "Getting Together" a War Play by J. Hartley Manners, Major Ian Hay, and Percival Knight
Cover art shows picture of composer Lieutenant Gitz Rice, a Canadian soldier in WWI

Cover color: one-color process, brown
# of pages: 8 (4 of the song, cover, and two pages of sample of two others songs from the play: Dear Old Pal of Mine and Mary Lee, which was written at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle, March, 1915)

This is a song to exhort those on the homefront to support the war effort.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
There' is a call resounding now you hear it ev'rywhere
In ev'ry town and square it comes from "over there".
The U.S.A. is in the fight and you know what that means.
That ev'ry lad is joining from the north to New Orleans.
If you can't wear a uniform there's one thing left to do.
Don't ever quit, just "Do your bit" you know it's up to you.

Refrain:
You've got to go in or go under.
You've got to be going all day.
We know you're not in khaki or in blue
But you're as big a man and you've a job to do.
In Flanders they're calling for Soldiers.
They're calling for you and for me.
If you can't come along
Back us up good and strong
And we'll drive them back to Germany.

Verse 2:
Ev'ry day some thousand soldiers sail across the sea
To fight for you and me. To save "Democracy"
The men who can't go over can do something never fear.
They all can volunteer today to lick the Germans here.
Pro Germans are a danger, they are lurking at your door.
So wake up! Now America we've got to win this war.

Refrain:
You've got to go in or go under.
You've got to be going all day.
We know you're not in khaki or in blue
But you're as big a man and you've a job to do.
In Flanders they're calling for Soldiers.
They're calling for you and for me.
If you can't cross the pond
Buy a Liberty Bond
And we'll drive them back to Germany.

 

See more WWI sheet music:
Au Revoir, But Not Good-Bye Soldier Boy
The Battle Song of Liberty
Come On Papa
Dear Old Pals
The Dixie Volunteers
Don't Cry Frenchy, Don't Cry
Ev'rywhere
The Finest Flag that Flies
God Spare Our Boys Over There
Goodbye Broadway, Hello France
Goodbye France, You'll Never Be Forgotten by the U.S.A.
Goodbye Germany
The Greatest Thing That Came From France
Long Boy - Goodbye Ma! Goodbye Pa! Goodbye Mule!
Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here
Homeward Bound
I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way
I Don't Want to Get Well
I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time
In the Navy
It's a Long Way to Berlin But We'll Get There
I'm a Long Way from Tipperary
I'm Aching for the Sight of You
Jerry You Warra a Warrior in the War - WWI
Johnny's In Town
Liberty Bell It's Time to Ring Again
Little Blue Service Star in the Window
Lover's Lane is Crowded Again - WWI
Mothers of France
My Dream of the Big Parade
Oh Frenchy
Oo-la-la-wee-wee
Over Yonder Where the Lilies Grow
Plant a Little Garden in Your Own Back Yard
Somewhere in France in the Lily
Somewhere, Somewhere in France
There's a Vacant Chair in Every Home Tonight
We Don't Know Where We're Going Going But We're On Our Way
We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser
When the War Is Over - sheet music WWI
You'll Find Old Dixieland in France
You've Got to Go in or Go Under
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