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

I have 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 fine things one
has to admit is the way that the army has carried the american democratic 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 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 it meant 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 no official song 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 of every man in our platoon must swell with pride,
For the youth, the cream of which is marching at his side.
For the fascinating and regulations that we share,
And the quaint and curious that we're called upon to wear.

Now Al joined up to do his defending you and me.
He wants to fight and bleed and and die for liberty.
With the hell of war 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.
real R.A. material and he was glad to swap
His and his old zip gun
For a and a new m-1.
It a fella proud to be a soldier!

After Johnny got through training, he
Was a soldier and through when he was done.
effects were so well rooted,
That the next day he
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,
he finds it broadening.
It a fella proud to be a soldier!

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

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

Our lieutenant is the type.
Played with 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.
from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well.
He used to be, so has, the dean of men at Alcatraz.
It a fella proud to be,
as a kid I vowed to be,
What to be allowed to be
A soldier. (at ease!)