Keep the home-fires burning ('till the boys come home) : song / words by Lena Guilbert Ford ; music by Ivor Novello.

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Novello, Ivor, 1893-1951. 2000. “Keep the Home-Fires Burning (’till the Boys Come Home) : Song Words by Lena Guilbert Ford ; Music by Ivor Novello”. New York (41 East Thirty-fourth Street, New York) : Chappell & Co. Ltd, World War I Sheet Music, accessed March 28, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/wwimusic/item/36971

Title: Keep the home-fires burning ('till the boys come home) : song / words by Lena Guilbert Ford ; music by Ivor Novello.
Description: For high voice and piano.
New edition, No. 1 in F (original).
Plate number -- C.6723-6, Chappell & Co.
Copyright assigned to Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd.
"The song-message with a melody that haunts: God bring you safely to our arms again" (publisher's thematic advertisement): p. [2] of copy 1.
"A song with melody and lyric perfectly attuned -- that's all: Waiting" (publisher's thematic advertisement): p. [8] of copy 1.
"Any place is heaven if you are near me" (publisher's thematic advertisement): p. [2] of copy 2.
"Land of the long ago" (publisher's thematic advertisement): p. [8] of copy 2.
"A song that will appeal both at home and abroad: Little mother at home" (publisher's thematic advertisement): p. [2] of copy 3.
"This is the famous British trench-ditty...: Take me back to dear old Blighty" (publisher's thematic advertisement): p. [8] of copy 3.
"The phenomenal artistic ballad success: Roses of Picardy" (publisher's thematic advertisement): reverse side of incomplete inserted copy.
Library's copy 2 signed on t.p.: J. Helen Noble.
Inserted: an incomplete copy, bearing only the chorus.
Subject: Topical -- Songs with piano.
Topical -- Popular music, United States.
Topical -- World War, 1914-1918, Songs and music.
Topical -- Popular music, Great Britain.
Publisher -- Chappell and Co.
Added entry -- Person -- Ford, Lena Guilbert.
Creator: Novello, Ivor, 1893-1951
Publisher: New York (41 East Thirty-fourth Street, New York) : Chappell & Co. Ltd.
Date: c1915
Format: 1 score (7 p.) ; 35 cm.
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Item sets: World War I Sheet Music

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