Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)

"Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)"
Song
Released1917
LabelMcCarthy and Fisher, Inc.
Songwriter(s)Composer: Fred Fisher
Lyricist: Al Bryan

"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]

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)". The Tony Shuker Sheet Music Collection. 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  3. ^ Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Vol. 1. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 383. ISBN 978-0-7864-2798-7.
  4. ^ "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alscace Lorraine)". JScholarship. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Lorraine (my beautiful Alsace Lorraine)". Library of Congress. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  6. ^ Lorraine: (my beautiful Alsace-Lorraine). OCLC 13465614. Retrieved 25 February 2016 – via OCLC WorldCat.
  7. ^ "Lorraine: my beautiful Alsace Lorraine". The University of Alabama Libraries. The University of Alabama. Retrieved 25 February 2016.


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