Roy Randall - It's Not Your Nationality (1918)

Louis J. Winsch as "Roy Randall" sings "It's Not Your Nationality" on a Pathe disc from around 1918.

Everybody has a native land in the
north, south, east, or west.
And it's only right--your native land
should be the place you love the best.

Now it makes no difference what you are.
Don't wait for fame to come. Just go
and get it, and they'll give you credit
no matter where you're from.


It's not your nationality. It's what you do. It's
not your personality that always pulls you through.
Bismark make his mark in Germany, we know.
And Georgie Cohan was a Yankee in the growin'
but he made a bunch of dough.

Just think of Rockefeller and what he can buy. He
started from the cellar, but he climbed away up high.
So if you've got the spirit, nevermind your name.
Folks will hear it if you play the game.
It's not your nationality. It's simply you!