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 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 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 meant that he had to memorize a new serial number 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 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 every man in our platoon swell with pride,
For the nation's youth, the cream of which is at his side.
For the rules and regulations that we share,
And the quaint and curious costumes that we're called to wear.

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

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

After Johnny got through training, he
Was a soldier through and when he was done.
It's effects so well 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 thinks the just the thing,
he finds it broadening.
It makes a fella 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 going to be a big success.
He his class at O.C.S.
It makes a fella to be a soldier!

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

Our is the up-and-coming type.
Played soldiers as a boy you just can bet.
It is in the stars
He will get his bars,
But he hasn't got box tops yet.

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