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Goodbye Mama (I'm off to Yokohama)
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"'Goodbye Mama (I'm off to Yokohama)'" is a World War II song written and composed by J. Fred Coots. The wartime song was first published in 1941 by Chappell and Co. in New York, NY.Coots, J. Fred. 1941. 'Goodbye Mama: (I'm off to Yokohama)'. New York City: Chappell & Co. The song has a march-tempo, 4/4 meter with some syncopated rhythm. The tune is cheery and akin to a Boy Scout hiking song.Smith, Kathleen E. R. 'God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War'. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print. P. 14.
The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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Bibliography
*Cooper, B. Lee, and Wayne S. Haney. 1999. 'Rock music in American popular culture III', III. Rock Music in American Popular Culture. New York: Haworth Press. .
*Jasen, David A. 1988. 'Tin Pan Alley: the composers, the songs, the performers, and their times: the golden age of American popular music from 1886 to 1956.' New York: D.I. Fine..
*Jones, John Bush. 2006. 'The songs that fought the war: popular music and the home front: 1939-1945'. Hanover: Univ. Press of New England. .
*Smith, Kathleen E. R. 'God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War'. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print. .
*Zinsser, William. 2006. 'Easy to remember: the great American songwriters and their songs'. Jaffrey, N.H.: David R. Godine. .
Category:1941 songs
Category:Songs of World War II
Category:Songs with music by John Frederick Coots
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