Fanny Hodges Newman

Fanny Hodges Newman (1862 – 1946) was an American poet and lyricist. She published three volumes of verse: Adventures (1910), Out of Bondage (1913), and Hearts Allied (1917). She also wrote the lyrics to "We Are All Americans" (1918).

Quotes

We Are All Americans

• O, England's full of Englishmen
     And France is full of French,
  And Italy has sons enough
     To fill up ev'ry trench;
  But what are we across the sea
     Who come from all the earth
  To the land that gives us freedom,—
     Though it did not give us birth?
  O, we are all Americans,
     And when we come away
  From England, France and Italy,
     We swore we came to stay.
  • "We Are All Americans", sts. 1–3 (1918)

• And we will lift our country's flag
     And float its Stripes and Stars
  In place of those we used to wave
     For Kaisers, Kings and Czars.
  • "We Are All Americans", st. 5 (1918)

• Yet we will cross the seas again
     To Europe's tortured sod,
  With those who, though not brothers born,
     Are brothers under God.
  Since we have sworn our manhood's oath,
     We stand to make it good
  Against the mightiest foes of earth,
     Whatever be their blood.
  For we are all Americans,
     And we shall fight our way
  To victory and back again,
     And then come home to stay.
  • "We Are All Americans", sts. 7–9 (1918)