Over There

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Title: Over There

Additional Title:

First Line: Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun

First Line of Chorus: Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word, over there

Creator(s):

Cohan, George M.

Additional Names:

Reilly, WM. J, U.S.N.

Publication Date: 1917

Instrumentation: Piano
Voice

Subject: World War I

WIMA Collections: Ed and Cathy Ward Collection

ID: ECW SL 00-061

Publisher: White-Smith Music Publishing Co.

Publication Place: Boston, MA

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Historical Notes

In 1917 George M. Cohan wrote the song that would make him an international name. "Over There" was written while Cohan was riding on a train to New York after hearing the news that America had entered the Great War. The song became a smash hit and quickly sold over a million copies. It became the rallying song for American troops and to this day is the one song most Americans associate with World War I. Twenty-five years later President Franklin D. Roosevelt would present to Cohan the Congressional Medal of Honor for the uplifting spirit it brought to American troops.

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