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The song of the Seabees / lyric by Sam M. Lewis ; music by Peter De Rose.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks SAXTON M1648.D47 S66 1942
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- De Rose, Peter, 1900-1953, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs with piano.
- Songs with guitar.
- Popular music--United States--1941-1950.
- Popular music.
- United States. Navy. Seabees--Songs and music.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Construction workers--United States--Songs and music.
- Construction workers.
- United States. Navy. Seabees.
- United States. Navy--Military construction operations--Songs and music.
- Bees--Pictorial works.
- Bees.
- Wrenches--Pictorial works.
- Wrenches.
- Hammers--Pictorial works.
- Hammers.
- Machine guns--Pictorial works.
- Machine guns.
- Genre:
- Scores.
- Popular music.
- Songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (3 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ; 31 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Washington, D.C.] : printed for complimentary distribution by Bureau of Yards and Docks, United States Navy.
- Other Title:
- First line of text: We're the Seabees of the Navy
- Place of Publication:
- 799 Seventh Avenue, New York : Robbins Music Corporation, [1942]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation; Chord symbols; Guitar chord diagrams.
- Notes:
- For voice and piano, with chord diagrams for guitar and chord symbols.
- Illustrated title page: blue/yellow/red/white; insignia of the Seabees showing a vicious looking bee wearing a sailor's cap and holding a wrench and hammer firing a machine gun.
- "Buy war bonds and stamps for victory."
- "Construimus batuimus U.S.N."
- "Dedicated to the Seabees construction and fighting men of the United States Navy."
- Recruitment advertisement for the Seabees on unnumbered page.
- Local Notes:
- Louise G Saxton Music Collection
- OCLC:
- 10874197
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