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Others that Sterling collaborated with include Bernie Grossman , M.K. Jerome , Frederick Allen Mills , Raymond Sterling , Ray Henderson , Edward Moran and Bartley Costello . He wrote the song '' Wait 'till The Sun Shines, Nellie '' in 1905 and the song '' America Here's My Boy '' for the Peerless Quartet in 1917 in the aftermath of U.S. entry into the war in April 1917. It comprised a straightforward call to American patriotism: ''America Here's My Boy ''First Verse'' There’s a million mothers knocking at the nations door, A million mothers, yes and there’ll be millions more, And while within each mother heart they pray, Just hark what one brave mother has to say. ''Second Verse'' There’s a million mothers waiting by the fireside bright, A million mothers, waiting for the call tonight. And while within each heart there’ll be a tear, She’ll watch her boy go marching with a cheer. ''Chorus'' America, I raised a boy for you. America, You’ll find him staunch and true, Place a gun upon his shoulder, He is ready to die or do. America, he is my only one; My hope, my pride and joy, But if I had another, he would march beside his brother; America, here’s my boy.'' Sterling died in Stamford, Connecticut on August 11 , 1955 . |
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