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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
"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. It is one of the first anti-war songs. 〔Pelger, Martin, "Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War", Osprey Publishing, New York, 2014, p. 265〕 Lyricist Alfred Bryan collaborated with composer Al Piantadosi in writing the song,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Victor Discography: Matrix B-15553. I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier / Morton Harvey )〕 which inspired a sequel, some imitations, but also a number of scornful parodies. It 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."
==Themes==
The song gives the lament of a lonely mother whose son has been lost in the war:
I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,
I brought him up to be my pride and joy
She comments on the irony of war being between different mothers' sons, killing each other with muskets. Conflict between nations should be resolved by arbitration, not by the sword and the gun. Victory is not enough to console a mother for the loss of her son, and the blighting of her home. War would end if all mothers said they would not raise their sons as soldiers. The song thus apparently connects the suffragist and pacificist movements.〔〔
The somber nature of the lyrics also reflected the neutrality mentality that was common in the United States in early 1915.
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