America, Here’s My Boy (1917) reflects the American mother’s change of heart. The white-haired mother who didn’t raise her gingham-clad boy to be a soldier now proudly offers her uniformed son to the war effort. Illustrator André C. de Takacs replaces the privacy and intimacy evoked by I Didn't Raise My Boy's cover with public support of the United States as an international player, represented by the background image of the country’s map. The musical references have changed, as well; composer Arthur Lange (1889-1956) quotes the opening line of Yankee Doodle in his song.