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When Jack comes back
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Cover features: title and composition information against a drawing of Canadian soldier pulling the Kaiser's moustache with caption "your moustache grows too high, sir!" (black on uncoloured ground).

When Jack comes back

Date1915
Alternate Title
  • When Jack comes back : the Canadian war song
  • When Jack comes back
FormatEphemera
Notes
For voice and piano.
Key: B-flat major.
Dedication: "To my life long chum Frederick H. Langstone 5th Canadian Field Battery and to all the boys at the front."
On cover: "As sung by the Canadian troops". 

On verso of front cover: advertising incipits for "Boy in blue" and "Song national".
On back cover: advertising incipit for "Where is my boy tonight?".
Dimensions35 cm x 27 cm (13 3/4 in. x 10 5/8 in.)
Language
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberCSM-THOWHE1915-002
GeographyCountryCanada
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