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Sheet music to "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" Vintage Audio: I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way
Updated - Wednesday, 25 June, 2003

Reproduced below are the lyrics to the popular American wartime song, I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way.

With words and music by George Fairman and published by Harry von Tilzer in New York in 1917, this marching song is typical of many which aired during wartime, although it ranks as one of the best.

Click here to listen to a variation of the song performed by the Peerless Quartet in 1917 (MP3 format 797kb).

I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way

First Verse
Goodbye everybody 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.

Second Verse
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?

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-uty night or day I don't know where I'm going but I'm on
my way.

A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot.