Marching caddences

[bcadoo]

This one is from AOCS circa 1987



Sittin' at school and talkin' to joe

Got nothin' to do no where to go.

Navy recruiter came to me.

Asked me what I wanted to be.

He said 'do you wanna be brave and bold?'

'And do you want those wings of gold?'

He got me drunk on some wine.

And made me sign the bottom line.

He put me in a barber chair.

I turned around I had no hair.

He put a rifle in my hand.

And made me run through the sand.


(after graduation)

Well now I am brave and bold.

And now I wear those wings of gold.

[Hangtime]

i've never seen or heard of an officer calling cadence.

new army.

go figure. 

[CJ nitro]

Repeat back after each line. To be used at the double time by the four count. This one I heard from some other schmo's while in boot camp.

i've got a girlfriend
she's got no arms and legs
all she has are hooks and pegs
but i'll do almost anything
to keep her alive yeah
she's got a tv
it's called an ekg
but i'll do almost anything
to keep her alive yeah
one day i played a joke
i pulled her plug to watch her choke
but i'll do almost anything
to keep her alive yeah

[uptown]

the prettiest girl i ever saw
was sippin bourbon thur a straw
i picked her up
i laid her down
her long blond hair laid
all around
i stuck it in, i pulled it out
it felt so good, i let out a shout!
now i have a mother-n-law
and 14 kids that call me pa..............ooohrahhhhhhh h!

[BEARING3]

Obie that makes me shudder too. I got out of the regular army infantry almost a quarter century ago. I was not a marine, just a soldier for the US Army. What suckers we were!!!!!

[Tom5572]

oh-hell, oh-hell rock and roll,
the sound of the cannons moves the soul
but I was always ready to go,
so early in the morning

Up in the morning out of the rack,
greeted by a mortar attack,
my buddies lying blown in half
so early in the morning

They come to get the KIA
the families want the bodies returned
but we got drunk and had 'em burned
so early in the morning

I don't think i'll understand
this taking of a foreign land
the killing of my brother man
so early in the morning

Abridged version

[Tom5572]

I don't know why I left,
but I know I've done wrong
and it won't be long
Till I, Till I, Till I
Get on back home

Dress it right and cover down
forty inches all around
and it won't be long
Till I, Till I, Till I
Get on back home

Nine to the front and six to the rear,
That's the way we do it here
and it wont be long
Till I, Till I, Till I
get on back home

Ain't no sense in looking down
Ain't no discharge on the gournd
and it wont be long
Till I, Till I, Till I
get on back home


This one can go on forever

[Yenny]

i've never seen or heard of an officer calling cadence.

new army.

go figure. 

Still don't, maybe in training we did but never in the real world.

[scot12b]

i've never seen or heard of an officer calling cadence.

new army.

go figure. 

No NCO I know would let that happen. Must be the new Army

[Tom5572]

No officers call cadence when I am around.  Oh, the humanity when the NCO Corps no longer calls cadence.  It must be the Air Force, PLEASE tell me it was the Air Force

[VonMessa]

Relax Sarge.

You KNOW it must've been those Air Force types.

[Heater]

from back in 77/78


Airborne Ranger was a hell of a man!
Walked through the bar with his ***k in his hand!
***t on the table and pissed on the floor.
Then wiped his bellybutton with a "44."
Lined a hundred women up against the wall.
Bet a hundred bucks he could ***k them all.
*****d 98 till his ***k turned blue.
Up-chucked, jammed up, ****d the other two.
When he died he went to hell.
*****d the devil's wife and his daughter as well.
On his tombstone it was carved in green:
Here lies a human ****ING MACHINE

[Rich46yo]

No officers call cadence when I am around.  Oh, the humanity when the NCO Corps no longer calls cadence.  It must be the Air Force, PLEASE tell me it was the Air Force

We called cadence all the time in USAF. We were very good marchers due to our superior Intellects and the fact we had "soul".

And living in air conditioned coed dorms left us relaxed and fit for a days march. But no, only NCOs called cadence.

[USRanger]

Nice one Heater   Man, I haven't heard some of these since Basic, but I still remember all the words.