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

I have only comparatively recently emerged from the united states 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 things one
has to admit is the way that the army has carried the american democratic ideal to it's logical 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 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 that he had to memorize a new serial 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 free time. well, I submitted the following song which 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 cream of is marching at his side.
For the rules and regulations that we share,
And the and curious costumes that we're called upon to wear.

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

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

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

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

Now Ed flunked out of second grade, and finished school.
He doesn't a shelter half from an entrenching tool.
But going to be a big success.
He his class at O.C.S.
It makes a proud to be a soldier!

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

Our is the up-and-coming type.
with soldiers as a boy you just can bet.
It is in the stars
He will get his bars,
But he got enough box tops yet.

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