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 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 logical conclusion in the sense 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 serial number which took up most of his time. at any rate I recall 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 and suggested that we work on this in our copious 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 man in our platoon must swell with pride,
For the youth, the cream of which is marching at his side.
For the fascinating rules and regulations we share,
And the quaint and curious costumes that we're called to wear.

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

When Pete was only in the grade, he stabbed a cop.
real 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 proud to be a soldier!

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

Now Fred's an intellectual, brings a to every meal.
He likes the deep philosophers, Norman Vincent Peale.
He the army's just the thing,
he finds it broadening.
It makes a proud to be a soldier!

Now Ed flunked out of grade, and never finished school.
He doesn't know a shelter half an entrenching tool.
But he's 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 buds 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 a fella proud to be a soldier!

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

Our captain has a handicap to 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,
When as a kid I to be,
What to be allowed to be
A soldier. (at ease!)