Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town

Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town is a World War I era ballad song released in 1918. A.G. Delamater wrote the lyrics. Will R. Anderson composed the music. The song was published by M. Witmark & Sons in New York, New York. On the cover is a group of "greater Vitagraph players" sitting around a table, writing letters. Behind them is a service flag with a red border and one blue star. It was written for both voice and piano. The song opens with a wounded soldier laying on a cot. He tells a nurse that the only thing that will cure his homesickness is hearing from his "old home town". The chorus is as follows:
 * Bring me a letter from my old home town,
 * One with jokes from my old pal, Jim Brown.
 * Bring me a letter from that girl of mine,
 * Saying that she's longing for me all the time
 * Bring me a letter from my proud old dad,
 * Who knows that we are winning, and I'll bet
 * he's glad.
 * But more than any other,
 * A line from my old mother;
 * Bring me a letter from my home town.

Sheet music
The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

Performers
The song was performed by Billy Jones for Edison Blue Amberol and by Will R. Anderson for Columbia.