Keep the Home Fires Burning (Ivor Novello song)
SONG COMPOSED BY IVOR NOVELLO
Keep the Home Fires Burning (1915 song); Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song)
"Keep the Home-Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)" is a British patriotic First World War song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Guilbert Ford (whose middle name was sometimes printed as "Gilbert").Pegler, Martin, Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War, Osprey Publishing, 2014, , p.