I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way
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| name = I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way
| cover = I don't know where WWI.jpg
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| written = 1910s
| published =
| writer = George Fairman
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"I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" is a World War I era song, in which a soldier leaving to fight sings that "Uncle Sammy is calling me, so I must go." It was written and composed by George Fairman, recorded by both the Peerless Quartet and Henry Burr, and produced by Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Company in 1917.{{cite book|last1=Paas|first1=John R.|title=America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I|date=2014|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz GmbH Co. & KG|location=Wiesbaden|page=130}}
The song stayed in the top 20 from September 1917 to January 1918 and hit number 9 in December 1917.{{cite book|last1=Paas|first1=John R.|title=America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I|date=2014|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz GmbH Co. & KG|location=Wiesbaden|page=130}}
Lyrics
{{poemquote|Goodbye ev'rybody, I'm off to fight the foe.
Uncle Sammy is calling me, so I must go.
Gee, I'm feeling fine,
Don't you wish that you were me?
For I'm sailing tomorrow
Over the deep blue sea.
CHORUS
And I don't know where I'm going,
but I'm on my way,
For I belong to the regulars
I'm proud to say
And I'll do my duty night or day.
I don't know where I'm going,
But I'm on my way.
Take a look at me,
I'm a Yankee thro' and thro'.
I was born on July the Fourth in ninety-two,
And I'll march away with a feather in my hat,
For I'm joining the army.
What do you think of that?
REPEAT CHORUS}}
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