"The Worst Is Yet to Come" is a World War I-era song recorded on December 12, 1918 in Camden, New Jersey.

[2] The song was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. in New York City.

[1] Artist Albert Wilfred Barbelle designed the cover art for the sheet music.

On one version of the cover, a soldier is in position to bayonet a prisoner in bed.

[3] The lyrics of the song blatantly mock Wilhelm II, the German Emperor during World War I.