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Sheet music to "Where Do We Go From Here?" Vintage Audio: Where Do We Go From Here?
Updated - Sunday, 16 February, 2003

Reproduced below are the lyrics to the U.S. wartime song, Where Do We Go From Here? Written by Percy Wenrich and Howard Johnson it was a popular tune in 1917 shortly following America's entry into World War I.

Click here to listen to a version of the song performed by Arthur Fields in 1917 (MP3 format 1,131kb)

Where Do We Go From Here?

First Verse
Pad-dy Mack drove a hack up and down Broad-way,
Pat had one ex-pres-sion and he'd use it ev-'ry day,
An-y time he'd grab a fare, to take them for a ride,
Pad-dy jumped up-on the seat, - cracked his whip and cried:

First Chorus:
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
An-y-where from Har-lem to a Jer-sey Cit-y pier,
When Pat would spy a pret-ty girl, he'd whis-per in her ear:
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Second Verse
One fine day, on Broad-way, Pat was driv-ing fast,
When the street was blown to pie-ces by a sub-way blast,
Down the hole poor Pad-dy went, a-think-ing of his past,
Then he says, says he, I think these words will be my last:

Second Chorus
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
Pad-dy's neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear,
He saw a dead man next to him and whis-pered in his ear:
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Third Verse
First of all, at the call, when the war be-gan,
Pat en-list-ed in the ar-my as a fight-ing man,
When the drills be-gan they'd walk a hun-dred miles a day,
Tho' the rest got tir-ed, Pad-dy al-ways used to say:

Third Chorus
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
Slip a pill to Kai-ser Bill and make him shed a tear,
And when we see the en-e-my we'll shoot them in the rear,
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

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