Cheer Up, Mother

"Cheer Up, Mother" is a World War I era song released in 1918. Mary Earl composed the music and wrote the lyrics. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. of New York, New York published the song. Artist Albert Wilfred Barbelle designed the sheet music cover. It features a mother saying good-bye to her soldier son. It was written for both voice and piano.

In the song, a son is comforting his mother before he heads off to war. The chorus is as follows:
 * "Cheer up, mother, smile and don't be sighing
 * Dry the teardrop in your eye;
 * We'll come back with colors flying
 * After the war clouds roll by,
 * Homeward bound then
 * We'll come sailing, mother.
 * We will win out, never fear;
 * Dad came home from fields of glory,
 * Maybe I'll repeat his story,
 * So cheer up, mother dear."

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