[1] It was published by McCarthy and Fisher, Inc.. André De Takacs designed the sheet music cover.

It features a French soldier with his bayonet drawn in the foreground.

[4][5] The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

[6] The song tells the story of a grenadier asleep by a campfire, dreaming of simpler times before the war.

Specifically, he recalls times he spent in Lorraine and memories of the "quaint old-fashioned people" who lived in the villages of Alsace-Lorraine.