《It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier》歌词

歌曲： It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier

所属专辑：An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

歌手： Tom Lehrer

时长： 05:05

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It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier (Live) - Tom Lehrer[00:00:00]

I have only comparatively recently emerged from the[00:00:00]

United States Army [00:00:03]

So that I am now of course in the radioactive reserve [00:00:04]

And the usual jokes about the Army aside [00:00:08]

One of the many fine things one[00:00:11]

Has to admit is the way that the Army has carried the[00:00:12]

American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion [00:00:15]

In the sense that not only do they prohibit discrimination[00:00:18]

On the grounds of race creed [00:00:21]

And color but also on[00:00:23]

The grounds of ability[00:00:24]

Be that as it may [00:00:36]

Some of you may recall the publicity[00:00:37]

A few years ago[00:00:39]

Attendant upon the Army's search for[00:00:40]

An official Army song to be the counterpart of the Navy's[00:00:42]

Anchors Aweigh and the Air Force's[00:00:45]

Up In The Air Junior Birdman and so on [00:00:48]

I was I was in basic training at[00:00:51]

The time and I recall our platoon sergeant [00:00:57]

Who was an unfrocked Marine [00:01:01]

Actually Actually the change of service[00:01:06]

Had come as quite a blow to him because it meant that[00:01:11]

He had to memorize a new serial number which took up[00:01:13]

Most of his time [00:01:15]

At any rate [00:01:24]

I recall this sergeant's informing me and[00:01:25]

My roommates of this rather deplorable fact[00:01:27]

That the Army didn't have any official[00:01:36]

Excuse me didn't have[00:01:38]

No official song and suggested that[00:01:39]

Suggested that we work on this in[00:01:44]

Our copious free time [00:01:46]

Well I submitted the following song [00:01:48]

Which is called[00:01:51]

It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier[00:01:51]

Which I think demonstrates the proper spirit [00:01:53]

You'll agree However the fact that it did not win the[00:01:56]

Contest I can ascribe only to blatant favoritism on part[00:01:58]

Of the judges [00:02:01]

The heart of every man in our platoon must swell with pride[00:02:06]

For the nation's youth[00:02:10]

The cream of which is marching at his side[00:02:11]

For the fascinating rules and regulations that we share[00:02:13]

And the quaint and curious costumes[00:02:17]

That we're called upon to wear[00:02:19]

Now Al joined up to do his part defending you and me[00:02:26]

He wants to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty[00:02:30]

With the hell of war he's come to grips[00:02:34]

Policing up the filter tips[00:02:36]

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier[00:02:38]

When Pete was only in the seventh grade [00:02:44]

He stabbed a cop[00:02:47]

He's real R A material and he was glad to swap[00:02:48]

His switchblade and his old zip gun[00:02:52]

For a bayonet and a new M-1[00:02:54]

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier[00:02:55]

After Johnny got through basic training he[00:03:00]

Was a soldier through and through when he was done[00:03:04]

Its effects were so well rooted[00:03:08]

That the next day he saluted[00:03:09]

A Good Humor man an usher and a nun[00:03:11]

Now Fred's an intellectual [00:03:20]

Brings a book to every meal[00:03:22]

He likes the deep philosophers [00:03:24]

Like Norman Vincent Peale[00:03:25]

He thinks the army's just the thing[00:03:29]

Because he finds it broadening[00:03:32]

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier[00:03:34]

Now Ed flunked out of second grade [00:03:41]

And never finished school[00:03:43]

He doesn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool[00:03:44]

But he's going to be a big success[00:03:48]

He heads his class at OCS[00:03:50]

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier[00:03:52]

Our old mess sergeant's taste buds[00:03:56]

Had been shot off in the war[00:03:58]

But his savory collations add to our esprit de corps[00:04:01]

To think of all the marvelous ways[00:04:05]

They're using plastics nowadays[00:04:07]

It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier[00:04:09]

Our lieutenant is the up and coming type[00:04:14]

Played with soldiers as a boy you just can bet[00:04:17]

It is written in the stars[00:04:21]

He will get his captain's bars[00:04:22]

But he hasn't got enough box tops yet[00:04:24]

Our captain has a handicap to cope with sad to tell[00:04:29]

He's from Georgia [00:04:33]

And he doesn't speak the language very well[00:04:34]

He used to be so rumor has[00:04:37]

The Dean of Men at Alcatraz[00:04:39]

It makes a fellow proud to be[00:04:41]

What as a kid I vowed to be[00:04:43]

What luck to be allowed to be a soldier[00:04:45]

At ease[00:04:50]