Luyện nghe bài hát It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier

I have only comparatively recently emerged from the united army so that I am now of course in the radio-active reserve and, the usual jokes about the army aside, one of the many fine things one
has to admit is the way that the army has carried the american democratic ideal to it's conclusion in the sense that not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and colour, but also on the grounds of ability. Be that as it may some of you may recall the publicity a few years ago attendant on the army's search for an official army song to be the counterpart of the Navy's "anchors away" and the airforce's "up in the air junior birdman" and so on. I was in basic training at the time and I recall our platoon sergeant, who was an unfrocked marine.

Actually, the change of service had come as quite a blow to him because it meant that he had to memorize a new number which took up most of his time. at any rate I recall this sergeant's
informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact that the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time. well, I submitted the following song is called it makes a fellow proud to be a soldier which, I think, demonstrates the proper spirit you'll agree. however, the fact that it did win the contest, I can ascribe only to blatant favouritism on the part of the judges.

The heart of every man in our platoon swell with pride,
For the nation's youth, the of which is marching at his side.
For the rules and regulations that we share,
And the quaint and curious costumes we're called upon to wear.

Now Al joined up to do his part you and me.
He to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty.
With the hell of war he's to grips,
Policing up the tips,
It makes a proud to be a soldier!

When Pete was only in the seventh grade, he a cop.
He's R.A. material and he was glad to swap
His and his old zip gun
For a and a new m-1.
It makes a fella to be a soldier!

After Johnny got basic training, he
Was a soldier through and through he was done.
effects were so well rooted,
That the day he saluted
A humour man, an usher, and a nun.

Now Fred's an intellectual, brings a to every meal.
He likes the philosophers, like Norman Vincent Peale.
He thinks the just the thing,
Because he it broadening.
It a fella proud to be a soldier!

Now Ed flunked out of second grade, and never school.
He doesn't a shelter half from an entrenching tool.
But going to be a big success.
He heads his at O.C.S.
It makes a proud to be a soldier!

Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been off in the war.
But his collations add to our esprit de corps.
To think of all the marvellous
using plastics nowadays.
It a fella proud to be a soldier!

Our is the up-and-coming type.
Played with soldiers as a boy you can bet.
It is written in the
He get his captain's bars,
But he got enough box tops yet.

Our captain has a to cope with, sad to tell.
He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the very well.
He to be, so rumour has, the dean of men at Alcatraz.
It makes a fella to be,
as a kid I vowed to be,
What luck to be to be
A soldier. (at ease!)