[Cover page title "OVER THE SEA BOYS"]
[Title page title:] "Over The Sea, Boys" (1918)
Words and Music by Irving Berlin, 1888-1989

New York, NY: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.,
Strand Theatre Bldg., Broadway at 47th St.
Plate No. 775-2
[Source: 078/105@Levy]

1.
In uniform we represent,
The navy of our President;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
We try to be as Dewey was,
The fearless man we knew he was;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
With watchful eye we take our post,
To guard our Uncle Sammy’s coast;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
We’ll fill our guns with navy beans,
And shoot the German submarines;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!

CHORUS [sung twice after each verse]
Over the sea boys,
We’re assigned;
With the land we love ever in mind.
Over the ocean, full of devotion;
For the girls we left behind.

2.
We’re each a son of Washington,
And each a man behind a gun;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
The fun’ral march is all rehearsed,
If we should see the Kaiser first;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
We don’t get much for what we do,
But what we do, means much to you;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
We have to leave our wives behind,
For fighting of a diff’rent kind;
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!