[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.15]I have only comparatively recently emerged from the united states army [00:05.70]So that I am now of course in the radio active reserve [00:07.95]And the usual jokes about the army aside one of the many fine thin [00:10.62]E has to admit is the way that the army has carried the american [00:12.57]Democratic ideal to its logical conclusion in the sense [00:15.48]That not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race cre [00:18.84]Nd color but also on the grounds of ability [00:21.96]Be that as it may some of you may recall the publicity a few years ago [00:23.43]About the army's search for an official army song to be the counterpart of th [00:26.01]Y's anchors away and the airforce's up in the air junior birdman songs [00:29.34]I was in basic training at the time and I recall our platoon sergeant who was an unfrocked marine [00:31.68]Actually the change of service had come as quite a blow to him [00:34.53]Because it meant that he had to memorize a new serial number which took up most of his time [00:38.70]At any rate I recall this sergean [00:39.72]Nforming me and my room mates of this rather deplorable fact [00:41.01]The army didn't have any official excuse me didn't have no official song [00:45.63]And suggested that we work on this in our copi [00:46.59]Ree time [00:46.80]Well I submitted the following song which is called it makes a fellow [00:49.62]Proud to be a soldier which I think demonstrates the proper spirit you'll agree [00:53.19]However the fact that it did [00:53.82]In the contest I can ascribe only to blatant favoratism on the part of the judges [00:55.44]The heart of every man in our platoon must swell with pride [00:57.39]For the nation's youth the cream of which is marching at his side [00:59.10]For the fascinating rules and regulations that we share [01:01.92]And the quaint and curious costumes that we're called upon to wear [01:03.63]Now al joined up to do his part defending you and me [01:06.39]He wants to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty [01:07.98]With the hell of war he's come to grips [01:10.65]Policing up the filter tips [01:17.88]It makes a fella proud to be a soldier [01:18.69]When pete was only in the seventh grade he stabbed a cop [01:33.06]He's real r a [01:33.39]Material and he was glad to swap [01:34.26]His switchblade and his old zip gun [01:35.31]For a bayonet and a new m 1 [01:35.94]It makes a fella proud to be a soldier [01:36.81]After johnny got through basic training he [01:37.89]Was a soldier through and through when he was done [01:41.10]It's effects were so well rooted [01:42.06]That the next day he saluted [01:42.90]A good humor man an usher and a nun [01:43.77]Now fred's an intellectual brings a book to every meal [01:45.06]He likes the deep philosophers like norman vincent peale [01:47.76]He thinks the army's just the thing [01:48.51]Because he finds it broadening [01:49.02]It makes a fella proud to be a soldier [01:49.86]Now ed flunked out of second grade and never finished school [01:51.45]He doesn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool [01:52.98]But he's going to be a big success [01:53.76]He heads his class at ocs [01:54.30]It makes a fella proud to be a soldier [02:19.20]Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war [02:20.58]But his savory collations add to our esprit de corps [02:21.69]To think of all the marvelous ways [02:22.62]They're using plastics nowadays [02:23.43]It makes a fella proud to be a soldier [02:24.69]Our lieutenant is the up and coming type [02:25.65]Played with soldiers as a boy you just can bet [02:26.64]It is written in the stars [02:27.24]He will get his captain's bars [02:27.96]But he hasn't got enough box tops yet [02:29.79]Our captain has a handicap to cope with sad to tell [02:31.29]He's from georgia and he doesn't speak the language very well [02:35.34]He used to be so rumor has the dean of men at alcatraz [02:36.81]It makes a fella proud to be [02:37.59]When as a kid I vowed to be [02:38.19]One ought to be allowed to be [02:38.94]A soldier [02:39.48]At ease