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Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine : ウィキペディア英語版 | Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine
Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine is a 1918 song composed by George W. Meyer, with lyrics written by Howard Johnson and published by Leo Feist, Inc.. Based upon sheet music sales' estimates from 1918, it is believed that "Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine" would have reached No.4 of the top 100 songs of 1918 with a recording by the Peerless Quartet. A later recording by Prince's Orchestra would have been No.7 of the top 100 songs of 1918. ==Sheet music and analysis== The 1918 publication features a cover illustration by Rosenbaum Studios of a painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River with a picture of General Pershing below it.〔 The sheet music was reprinted thrice.〔Paas, John Roger (2014). America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I. Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 204, ISBN 9783447102780.〕 The song describes the American effort in Germany during World War I and makes a direct parallel between the American effort in World War I to the American Revolution. It describes the hope that General Pershing will have the same success as George Washington.
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