| The Worst Is Yet to Come | |
| Cover: | File:The Worst is Yet to Come cover.jpg |
| Caption: | Sheet music cover |
| Artist: | Bill Murray |
| Recorded: | December 12, 1918 |
| Label: | Victor |
| Composer: | Bert Grant |
| Lyricist: | Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young |
"The Worst Is Yet to Come" is a World War I-era song recorded on December 12, 1918 in Camden, New Jersey.[1] Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young provided the lyrics. Bert Grant was the composer.[2] The song was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. in New York City. Billy Murray performed the song. 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. The second verse reads: The chorus of the song joyfully states to the Germans that it's only going to get worse from here, and that the "crazy Kaiser" must give up: