 W. Stern & Co. had acquired sole selling rights, and its imprint, along with Cooper's, appeared on the new version.A final edition, issued after Stern & Co. actually acquired the copyright, appeared in 1918.The publishing history, as well as the number of surviving copies (at, for instance, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library), suggests that the song achieved national success, although it was never recorded and no piano rolls were made.