It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier (Live)] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.80]I have only comparatively [00:01.95]Recently emerged from the [00:02.82]United States Army so that [00:04.66]I am now of course in [00:05.84]The radioactive reserve And [00:08.32] [00:09.03]The usual jokes about [00:10.49]The Army aside one of the [00:11.86]Many fine things one has [00:12.78]To admit is the way that the [00:14.42]Army has carried the [00:15.27]American democratic ideal to [00:16.32]It's logical conclusion [00:17.66]In the sense that not only do [00:19.50]They prohibit discrimination [00:20.97]On the grounds of race creed [00:22.63]And color but also on [00:23.99]The grounds of ability [00:25.27] [00:36.19]Be that as it may some of [00:37.45]You may recall the publicity [00:38.86]A few years ago attendant [00:39.85]Upon the Army's search for an [00:41.69]Official Army song to be [00:43.64]The counterpart of the Navy's [00:45.01]Anchors Aweigh and the [00:46.53]Air Force's Up In The Air [00:48.45]Junior Birdman and so on [00:49.36] [00:55.12]I was in basic training at [00:56.52]The time and I recall our [00:58.35]Platoon sergeant who was [01:00.92]An unfrocked Marine Actually [01:09.69]The change of service [01:10.26]Had come as quite a blow to [01:11.17]Him because it meant that [01:11.81]He had to memorize a new serial [01:13.22]Number which took up [01:14.42]Most of his time [01:15.24] [01:23.68]At any rate I recall this [01:24.67]Sergeant's informing me and [01:26.16]My roommates of this rather [01:34.37]Deplorable fact that the [01:35.32]Army didn't have any official [01:36.94]Excuse me didn't have [01:38.10]No official song and suggested [01:42.27]That we work on this in [01:44.51]Our copious free time Well [01:48.42]I submitted the following [01:49.08]Song which is called It [01:50.54]Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A [01:52.32]Soldier which I think [01:53.38]Demonstrates the proper spirit [01:54.26]You'll agree However the fact [01:55.47]That it did not win the [01:56.85]Contest I can ascribe only to [01:58.42]Blatant favoritism on part [01:59.94]Of the judges [02:00.57] [02:05.17]The heart of every man in our [02:06.69]Platoon must swell with pride [02:08.70]For the nation's youth the cream [02:10.09]Of which is marching at his side [02:12.02]For the fascinating rules and [02:13.69]Regulations that we share [02:15.06] [02:15.60]And the quaint and curious costumes [02:17.23]That we're called upon to wear [02:18.75] [02:24.78]Now Al joined up to do his [02:26.47]Part defending you and me [02:28.03] [02:28.58]He wants to fight and bleed [02:30.01]And kill and die for liberty [02:32.14]With the hell of war he's come to grips [02:34.22]Policing up the filter tips [02:36.27]It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier [02:39.50] [02:42.37]When Pete was only in the [02:44.23]Seventh grade he stabbed a cop [02:45.85]He's real R A material [02:47.44]And he was glad to swap [02:49.66]His switchblade and his old zip gun [02:51.79]For a bayonet and a new M 1 [02:53.50]It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier [02:56.92] [02:58.53]After Johnny got through [02:59.90]Basic training he [03:01.11] [03:02.15]Was a soldier through and [03:03.46]Through when he was done [03:04.67] [03:05.55]It's effects were so well rooted [03:06.99]That the next day he saluted [03:08.49] [03:09.02]A Good Humor man an usher and a nun [03:11.20] [03:17.45]Now Fred's an intellectual [03:19.13]Brings a book to every meal [03:20.74] [03:21.54]He likes the deep philosophers [03:22.73]Like Norman Vincent Peale [03:24.23] [03:26.90]He thinks the army's just the thing [03:29.09]Because he finds it broadening [03:31.33]It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier [03:34.56] [03:38.44]Now Ed flunked out of second grade [03:40.16]And never finished school [03:41.60]He doesn't know a shelter half [03:43.20]From an entrenching tool [03:45.12]But he's going to be a big success [03:47.00]He heads his class at OCS [03:49.13]It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier [03:51.88] [03:53.63]Our old mess sergeant's taste [03:55.08]Buds had been shot off in the war [03:56.87] [03:58.01]But his savory collations [03:59.51]Add to our esprit de corps [04:01.10] [04:01.97]To think of all the marvelous ways [04:03.69]They're using plastics nowadays [04:04.89] [04:05.76]It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier [04:08.40] [04:11.06]Our lieutenant is the up and coming type [04:14.36]Played with soldiers as a boy you just can bet [04:17.03] [04:17.80]It is written in the stars [04:19.17]He will get his captain's bars [04:20.52] [04:21.07]But he hasn't got enough box tops yet [04:23.23] [04:26.23]Our captain has a handicap [04:27.98]To cope with sad to tell [04:30.02]He's from Georgia and he doesn't [04:31.49]Speak the language very well [04:32.80] [04:33.94]He used to be so rumor has [04:35.83]The Dean of Men at Alcatraz [04:37.91]It makes a fellow proud to be [04:39.75]What as a kid I vowed to be [04:41.62]What luck to be allowed to be a soldier [04:46.69]At ease [04:47.37]It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier (Live) - Tom Lehrer