The Doughboy Cafe

Grab a table, kick your feet up and listen to tunes of World War I !

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Tending Bar: Scott K. Williams (Webmaster)

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A 89th Division regimental band at Camp Funston (1917)

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Background Image Note: Taken from an image of 25.000 men of the 89th Division gathered on a hillside for an outdoor concert, Christmas day 1917 (Camp Funston, KS)

American: 

• "When the Lusitania Went Down" (early anti-war)

• "The Hero of the European War" (early anti-war)

• "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" (Al Bryant's anti-war song, No. 2 hit in 1915)

• "Its Time For Every Boy to Be A Soldier" (Al Bryant's pro-war song of 1917)

• "Smiles" (#3 on the charts of 1918; sold over 3 million copies)

• "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!" (A 1917 Broadway hit)

• "Over There"(The No. 1 Hit of 1918)

• "When Pershing's Men Go Marching to Picardy"

• "We Don't Want the Bacon" (We want a piece of the Rhine)

• "Keep the Home Fires Burning"(A 1914 masterpiece by Welsh-born Ivor Norvello)

• "Keep the Trench Fires Burning For the Boys Out There"

• "The Caissons Go Rolling Along"(The Official Song of the U.S. Army)

• "Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip"

• "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?" (Insightful and True)

• "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up in the Morning"(Irving Berlin's 1918 hit)

• "Battle in the Sky" (a Marche Militaire)

• "Anchors Away" (The Song of the Navy)

• "Over the Sea Boys" (A Navy song by Irving Berlin)

• "K-K-Katy" (A No. 2 Hit of 1918)

• "The Battle Song of Liberty"

• "The Yanks With the Tanks" (The Official Song of the U.S. Tank Corps)

• "There is a Girl in Chateau Thierry" (1919) (Plus 1918 Stereoview of Chateau Thierry)

American-Canadian:

• "In Flander's Fields the Poppies Grow"

(Words by Lt. Col. John McCrae of the Canadian Army and music by Lt. John Philip Sousa)

French:

• "La Marseillaise" (English and French lyrics)

• "Madelon"  (English and French lyrics)

British:

• "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" (No. 2 hit of 1915)

• "Pack Up Your Troubles In the Old Kit Bag"(A British blockbuster)

"Visitor Day" at Camp Funston

Consolidated band of the 89th Division while the division was doing training at Camp Funston, Kansas (1917)

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