“The little recruit”, German folksong and soldiers’ song, 1914

The song (text by Friedrich Wlhelm Güll, music by Friedrich Kücken) was to be found in many school textbooks and was recommended for use in teaching in Prussia until 1919. The page shown here is an example from the book Die schönsten Lieder für Deutschlands Soldaten, edited by Demetrius Schrutz, published in Bonn in 1914,.