When I gets out in no man's land (I can't be bother'd with no mule) / words & music by Will E. Skidmore & Marshall Walker.

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Skidmore, Will E., and Walker, Marshall (Composer). “When I Gets Out in No man’s Land (I can’t Be bother’d With No Mule) Words & Music by Will E. Skidmore & Marshall Walker”. Kansas City, Mo. : Skidmore Music Co, World War I Sheet Music, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/wwimusic/item/40793

Title: When I gets out in no man's land (I can't be bother'd with no mule) / words & music by Will E. Skidmore & Marshall Walker.
Description: For voice and piano.; T.p. ill. signed Natwick: caricature of an African American soldier on a horse, holding a gun, with a bottle of rum in his back pocket. In the distance, German soldiers yell, "Kamerad!". Inset photograph of Billy Beard.; "Featured by Billy Beard, with Al. G. Field's Minstrels."; [Will E. Skidmore & Marshall Walker]: "Writers of No. 1: 'Pray for the lights'; No. 2: Long, tall, brown-skin gal; No. 3: 'Somebody done me wrong'."; "Deacon series no. 4. (special war number)"--Above caption title.; "Music worth having: the season's popular successes" (thematic publisher's listing): p. [4].
Subject: Topical -- Songs with piano.; Topical -- Popular music, United States.; Topical -- World WAr, 1914-1918, Songs and music.; Publisher -- Skidmore Music Co.; Added Entry -- Person -- Beard, Billy, 1879-1954.; Added Entry -- Person -- Field, Al. G. (Alfred Griffith), 1848-1921.; Added entry -- Natwick.
Creator: Skidmore, Will E.; Walker, Marshall (Composer)
Source: Deacon series ; no. 4
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Skidmore Music Co.
Date: c1918.
Format: 1 score (3 p.) : ill. : 35 cm.
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