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.^[1] 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.^[2] It was written for both voice and piano.^[3][4][5]

"Cheer Up, Mother"
Song
Released	1918
Label	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Songwriter(s)	Mary Earl

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.^[6]