Willard Losinger Performs "Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You" by Thomas Hoier and Jimmie Morgan

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Thomas Hoier and Jimmie Morgan composed "Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You" in 1915. A score is available here: https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-wwi-song-pdf.pdf

You may listen to a 1915 recording by Henry Burr here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyNM7wUkKAU

The peak year of European immigration to the United States was 1907, when 1,285,349 European migrants entered the country. By 1910, 13.5 million immigrants were living in the United States. World War I inspired an outbreak of nativism and xenophobia that especially targeted German-Americans. While a LOT of Americans spoke German prior to the war, German-American culture was largely obliterated: https://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/523044253/during-world-war-i-u-s-government-propaganda-erased-german-culture

Immigration to the United States fell sharply during this period, and did not pick up substantially again until after 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States

In 1942, Gene Autry sang the song in the movie "Bells of Capistrano": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJHuX2Xio7A

My playlist of political songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWcGIDy0R2W1aZ51azlVG5RxmN6ratGzr

My website: http://losinger.altervista.org/index.html