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The heart of every man in our platoon must swell with pride,
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For the nation's youth, the cream of which is marching at his side.
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For the fascinating rules and regulations that we share,
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And the quaint and curious costumes that we're called upon to wear.
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Now Al joined up to do his part defending you and me.
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He wants to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty.
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With the hell of war he's come to grips,
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Policing up the filter tips,
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It makes a fella proud to be a soldier!
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When Pete was only in the seventh grade, he stabbed a cop.
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He's real R.A. material and he was glad to swap
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His switchblade and his old zip gun
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For a bayonet and a new M-1.
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It makes a fella proud to be a soldier!
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After Johnny got through basic training, he
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Was a soldier through and through when he was done.
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It's effects were so well rooted,
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That the next day he saluted
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A Good Humor man, an usher, and a nun.
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Now Fred's an intellectual, brings a book to every meal.
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He likes the deep philosophers, like Norman Vincent Peale.
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He thinks the army's just the thing,
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Because he finds it broadening.
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It makes a fella proud to be a soldier!
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Now Ed flunked out of second grade, and never finished school.
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He doesn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool.
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But he's going to be a big success.
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He heads his class at OCS.
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It makes a fella proud to be a soldier!
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Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war.
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But his savory collations add to our esprit de corps.
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To think of all the marvelous ways
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They're using plastics nowadays.
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It makes a fella proud to be a soldier!
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Our lieutenant is the up-and-coming type.
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Played with soldiers as a boy you just can bet.
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It is written in the stars
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He will get his captain's bars,
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But he hasn't got enough box tops yet.
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Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.
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He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well.
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He used to be, so rumor has, the Dean of Men at Alcatraz.
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It makes a fella proud to be,
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When as a kid I vowed to be,
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One ought to be allowed to be
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A soldier. (At ease!)
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It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
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| Tom Lehrer |
