Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.23875 Composed by Archie Gottler. Portraits, Fathers & sons, Soldiers, Courtship, Love, World War I. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.23875). Would You Rather Be a Colonel With an Eagle on Your Shoulder, or a Private With a Chicken on Your Knee. Words by Sidney D. Mitchell. Music by Archie Gottler. Published 1918 by Leo Feist, Inc. in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Fathers & sons, Soldiers, Courtship, Love, World War I. First line reads Once I heard a father ask his soldier son, Why can't you advance like other boys have done?.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
