The UCSB has recently updated its collection of downloaded wax cylinder recordings, which includes a section of World War One popular songs:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... @attr+1=21
Such classics as "Don't cry Frenchy, don't cry", are included :
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... rtOrder=ia
Or; "Frenchy, come to Yankee Land":
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... rtOrder=ia
The classic "How are you going to keep them down on the farm" is of course there:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... rtOrder=ia
I haven't listed to it, but the "I don't want to get well" must be a million dollar wound song:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... rtOrder=ia
Capable of being downloaded, it's time to update your Itunes.
UCSB Wax Cylinder Audio Archive, the WWI songs
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Great link Pat. I was born in 1946, so why do I remember so many of these songs??????