"We Are All Americans" | |
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Song | |
Composer(s) | Carrie Jacobs-Bond |
Lyricist(s) | Fanny Hodges Newman |
"We Are all Americans (Allegiance)' is a song written during World War I with music composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and lyrics written by Fanny Hodges Newman. It is found in the Library of Congress record of notable music. [1]
A similar song in feeling with the same title from 1914 by O. S. Grinnell was "dedicated to those unemployed as a result of the war." [2]
Jacobs-Bond's song was one of more than 4,500 patriotic songs written in 1918 and the second song of that name composed in Chicago that year. [3] "We Are All Americans (Allegiance)" is composed of three verses, was originally written for a voice and piano format, and is addressed to "Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson". [1]