《It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier》歌词

[00:00:00] I have only comparatively recently emerged from the united states army

[00:00:05] So that I am now of course in the radio active reserve

[00:00:07] And the usual jokes about the army aside one of the many fine thin

[00:00:10] E has to admit is the way that the army has carried the american

[00:00:12] Democratic ideal to its logical conclusion in the sense

[00:00:15] That not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race cre

[00:00:18] Nd color but also on the grounds of ability

[00:00:21] Be that as it may some of you may recall the publicity a few years ago

[00:00:23] About the army's search for an official army song to be the counterpart of th

[00:00:26] Y's anchors away and the airforce's up in the air junior birdman songs

[00:00:29] I was in basic training at the time and I recall our platoon sergeant who was an unfrocked marine

[00:00:31] Actually the change of service had come as quite a blow to him

[00:00:34] Because it meant that he had to memorize a new serial number which took up most of his time

[00:00:38] At any rate I recall this sergean

[00:00:39] Nforming me and my room mates of this rather deplorable fact

[00:00:41] The army didn't have any official excuse me didn't have no official song

[00:00:45] And suggested that we work on this in our copi

[00:00:46] Ree time

[00:00:46] Well I submitted the following song which is called it makes a fellow

[00:00:49] Proud to be a soldier which I think demonstrates the proper spirit you'll agree

[00:00:53] However the fact that it did

[00:00:53] In the contest I can ascribe only to blatant favoratism on the part of the judges

[00:00:55] The heart of every man in our platoon must swell with pride

[00:00:57] For the nation's youth the cream of which is marching at his side

[00:00:59] For the fascinating rules and regulations that we share

[00:01:01] And the quaint and curious costumes that we're called upon to wear

[00:01:03] Now al joined up to do his part defending you and me

[00:01:06] He wants to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty

[00:01:07] With the hell of war he's come to grips

[00:01:10] Policing up the filter tips

[00:01:17] It makes a fella proud to be a soldier

[00:01:18] When pete was only in the seventh grade he stabbed a cop

[00:01:33] He's real r a

[00:01:33] Material and he was glad to swap

[00:01:34] His switchblade and his old zip gun

[00:01:35] For a bayonet and a new m 1

[00:01:35] It makes a fella proud to be a soldier

[00:01:36] After johnny got through basic training he

[00:01:37] Was a soldier through and through when he was done

[00:01:41] It's effects were so well rooted

[00:01:42] That the next day he saluted

[00:01:42] A good humor man an usher and a nun

[00:01:43] Now fred's an intellectual brings a book to every meal

[00:01:45] He likes the deep philosophers like norman vincent peale

[00:01:47] He thinks the army's just the thing

[00:01:48] Because he finds it broadening

[00:01:49] It makes a fella proud to be a soldier

[00:01:49] Now ed flunked out of second grade and never finished school

[00:01:51] He doesn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool

[00:01:52] But he's going to be a big success

[00:01:53] He heads his class at ocs

[00:01:54] It makes a fella proud to be a soldier

[00:02:19] Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war

[00:02:20] But his savory collations add to our esprit de corps

[00:02:21] To think of all the marvelous ways

[00:02:22] They're using plastics nowadays

[00:02:23] It makes a fella proud to be a soldier

[00:02:24] Our lieutenant is the up and coming type

[00:02:25] Played with soldiers as a boy you just can bet

[00:02:26] It is written in the stars

[00:02:27] He will get his captain's bars

[00:02:27] But he hasn't got enough box tops yet

[00:02:29] Our captain has a handicap to cope with sad to tell

[00:02:31] He's from georgia and he doesn't speak the language very well

[00:02:35] He used to be so rumor has the dean of men at alcatraz

[00:02:36] It makes a fella proud to be

[00:02:37] When as a kid I vowed to be

[00:02:38] One ought to be allowed to be

[00:02:38] A soldier

[00:02:39] At ease