Titel: "This Is Worth Fighting For"                

Komponist: Edgar De Lange, Sam H. Stept

Texter: Dsgl.

Verlag: Harms Inc., New York

Erscheinungsjahr: 1942

Druckerei: Keine Angabe

Graphiker: IM-Ho

Sammlungsnummer: 5151

 

Der Song versucht die Frage zu beantworten, wofür man im Krieg (hier Zweiter Weltkrieg) kämpft:

 

This is the land where I was born

Not so long ago,

This is the land that's troubled now with worry and with woe;

There was a question pounding my brain: what to do,

What to do, when out of a dream, the answer came into view.

 

Refrain:

I saw a peaceful old valley with a carpet of corn for a floor

And I heard a voice within me whisper This Is Worth Fighting For;

I saw a little old cabin

And the river that flowed by the door

And I heard a voice within me whisper This Is Worth Fighting For.

Didn't I build that cabin?

Didn't I plant that corn?

Didn't my folks before me

Fight for this country before I was born?

I gathered my love ones around me

And I gazed at each face I adore

Then I heard that voice within me thunder This Is Worth Fighting For.

 

Bei You Tube gibt es zwei gute Clips von dem Song.