A WWI song from 1915
Words by H. A. Langslow
Music by Alfred Valentine
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- I’ve a girl in dear old Scotland said
MacGregor to his mates
And she’s a bonny daisy you can bet
There’s a girl in gay Paree
Then said a Frenchie of the Guards
And she’s my one, my own Petite Grisette
Sure you’re leavin’ out old Ireland
And a sweet Colleen from Cork
Said a Fusilier from Erin’s Em’rald Isle
But a Cockney then spoke up and said
Fill your loving cup
Here’s the one that I am loving all the while
Chorus:
Now you have talked about your sweethearts
But there’s a girl who in this war
You’ll always find amid the shot and shell
And where the cannon roar
She is an angel to the wounded
And where the battle flags unfurl
She risks here life for you upon the field
It’s the Red Cross Girl
- Now you all must take your hats off
To dear Florence Nightingale
The angel of the old Crimean war
She was founder of the Red Cross
And the first one of them all
To venture where the flames of battle soar
Then there’s dear old Clara Barton
Of the Yankee Doodle Do
Who as nurse was ‘mong the bravest of the brave
And the English nurse Miss Bell
Who was buried where she fell
At LeMans with those she gave her life to save