Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.24110 Composed by James F. Hanley. Portraits, Cartoons, Military parades & ceremonies, Military parades, Drums, World War I. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.24110). The Ragtime Volunteers Are Off To Wa. Words by Ballard Macdonald. Music by James F. Hanley. Published 1917 by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Cartoons, Military parades & ceremonies, Military parades, Drums, World War I. First line reads All the gals have got the blues since they heard the latest news.. 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.