Back I didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier Spanish پسرم را بزرگ نکردم تا سرباز شود Persian לא גידלתי את בני להיות חייל HE I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier Italian 私は息子を兵士に育てなかった Japanese Я не растила своего сына в солдаты Russian I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier Serbo-Croatian I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier Swedish I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier Turkish
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" is an American anti-war song that was influential within the pacifist movement that existed in the United States before it entered World War I.[1][2] It is one of the first anti-war songs.[3] Lyricist Alfred Bryan collaborated with composer Al Piantadosi in writing the song,[4] which inspired a sequel, some imitations, but also a number of scornful parodies. It was recorded by The Peerless Quartet in December 1914 and was a hit in 1915, selling 650,000 copies. Its expression of popular pacifist sentiment "helped make the pacifist movement a hard, quantifiable political reality to be reckoned with."[5]
- ^ Mark W. Van Wienen (1997). Partisans and poets: the political work of American poetry in the Great War. Cambridge University Press. pp. 57–60. ISBN 978-0-521-56396-3. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
- ^ Zeiger, Susan (Spring 1996). "She Didn't Raise Her Boy To Be A Slacker: Motherhood, Conscription, and the Culture of the First World War". Feminist Studies. 22 (1): 7–39. doi:10.2307/3178245. hdl:2027/spo.0499697.0022.103. JSTOR 3178245.
- ^ Pelger, Martin, "Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War", Osprey Publishing, New York, 2014, p. 265
- ^ "Victor Discography: Matrix B-15553. I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier / Morton Harvey". victor.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
- ^ Mark W. van Wienen (1997). Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War. Cambridge UP. p. 57. ISBN 9780521563963.