Shannon Quartet <br /><br />"There's A Service Flag Flying At Our House" <br /><br />1917 <br /><br />Victor 18434 <br /><br />WWI song <br /><br />See the people running. Hear the rum-tum-tumming. <br />Military music fills the air! Everyone is waving. <br />Hearts are palpitating. Flags are flying everywhere <br />of every allied nation from nearly all creation. <br /><br />Their banners wave from every staff and dome, <br />but the one I love to see that means so much <br />to me is the flag that's flying at home. <br /><br />There's a service flag flying at our house, <br />a blue star in a field of red and white. <br />Father is so proud of what his boy has done! <br /><br />There's a tear in mother's smile and she <br />murmurs "my son." Perhaps he may return <br />with fame and glory, but if by chance we lose <br />him in the fight, there'll be a service flag flying <br />at our house and a new star in heaven that night. <br /><br />There beside Old Glory, telling all our story, <br />'til the end that flag is going to fly. We are <br />proud to show it--want the world to know it. <br /><br />We will do or we will die. There's a million <br />others, giving sons and brothers, and proudly <br />watch them as they march away, and although <br />their hearts may ache, although their hearts <br />may break, there's a million glad they can sing:
