Old airborne cadence and from the movie "Band of Brothers" about the 101st Airborne in WW2.
Is everybody happy
Said the sergeant looking up
Our hero feebly answered "Yes"
And then they hooked him up,
He jumped into the slipstream,
And he twisted twenty times,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
Chorus:
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die,
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die,
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
2. He counted loud, he counted long
And waited for the shock
He felt the wind, he felt the air,
He felt that awful drop,
He pulled his lines, the silk came down
And wrapped around his legs
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
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3. The days he lived and loved and laughed
Kept running through his mind
He thought about the medics
And wondered what they’d find,
He thought about the girl back home,
The one he left behind.
And he ain't gonna jump no more..
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4. The lines all wrapped around his neck,
The D rings broke his dome,
His lift webs wrapped themselves in knots,
Around each skinny bone,
His canopy became his shroud
As he hurtled to the ground ,
And he ain't gonna jump no more..
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5. The ambulance was on the spot,
The jeeps were running wild,
The medics clapped their hands
And rolled their sleeves and smiled,
For it had been a week or more,
Since last a chute had failed,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
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6. He hit the ground, the sound was "splat",
The blood went spurting high,
And his pals were heard to say
”Oh, what a lovely way to die.”
They rolled him up still in his chute,
And poured him from his boots,
And he ain't gonna jump no more..
Chorus:
7. There was blood upon his lift webs,
There was blood upon his chute,
Blood that came a trickling
From his paratrooper boots,
And there he lay like jelly
In the welter of his gore,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
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