Posted on Apr 3, 2015
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List your favorite patriotic song lyric! Here is one of mine!!

"Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin’ her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin’ her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"

"Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue (The Angry American)"
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Edited 9 y ago
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
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Fighting soldiers from the sky,
Fearless men who jump and die.
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Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon from 1983, pretty good tune


We met as soul mates on Parris Island
We left as inmates from an asylum
And we were sharp, as sharp as knives
And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives


We came in spastic like tameless horses
We left in plastic as numbered corpses
And we learned fast to travel light
Our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight


We had no home front, we had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep and shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ with all our might


We had no cameras to shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes
And it was dark, so dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write


And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together


Remember Charlie, remember Baker
They left their childhood on every acre
And who was wrong? And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight


We held the day in the palm of our hand
They ruled the night, and the night
Seemed to last as long as six weeks
On Parris Island
We held the coastline, they held the highlands


And they were sharp, as sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors
They counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive


And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together


Songwriters
JOEL, BILLY



Read more: Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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LTC Stephen C.
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SGT (Join to see), I've posted this on another similar discussion thread, but it'll work here as well! The SFTG instructors at Camp Mackall made us come to attention and sing the Ballad of the Green Berets every morning on the days we were in a classroom setting, April-May, 1970! The song was a number one hit in 1966. You asked for lyrics, but I provided the music also!
SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE
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LTC Stephen C.

Here is a version by Johnny Cash ...

They played it at morning mess in '68 (SFTG Bragg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz5SWNo-JQ4
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LTC Stephen C. Sir, that is already one of my youtube favorites. But this one I find is more applicable to the wider audience since and AR-15 was a predecessor to the M4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX6RNlU-qu4&index=4&list=FLDg2fF5nRNeZI3kfzFVmlfw
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