Posted on Nov 27, 2013
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Ah yes, "Jody calls," we've all heard them, marched to them, run to them, or called them out in a motivated tone; so, what are some of your all time favorites? As this is an inter-service thread, we want to hear from all of you--Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Reserve of each of the above, and the National Guard--so what are your favorite service-specific cadences, and do you have an old standby or trusty go-to cadence? Perhaps it was one that was once popular but somehow fell out of use, or maybe an just an old standard or unique favorite. Please feel free to share any photos, videos, sound files, stories, associated memories, and/or anything else needed to help to tell your story. I'm sure that an old classic or two comes to mind, so "one, two, three, four-or... this is what we're here for-or..." So, pull up a keyboard and let's get this thing started, thank you for all that you do, and... see you all in the discussion threads!
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SSG Laureano Pabon
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Sorry Major Burns, but this is one topic I really enjoy.

I think that the Army cadence, is a bit extra ordinary.

but not to change the topic, the Marines are rather good too.

When the DI starts to march.

During their marches all he is really saying : Left, right, left , right.

but the way he sounds it off, kind of gives it class.


 In this video, you will see an example:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gseNZnC9nEg


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SFC Chem Bev Specialist
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<p>Love watching marines Drill. Inspiring</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
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MSG Donald R. Lee, M.B.A.
MSG Donald R. Lee, M.B.A.
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Awesome video SSG Pabon! Coincidentally, I graduated with Plt 3045 in MCRD San Diego - about 20 years earlier! Thanks for the memory!
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CSM Charles Hayden
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SSG Pabon, If you learned to call cadence in the Corps, you may have been contaminated for life! The USMC has a different style which to me drags, just a bit. My US Army based admiration for the beautiful Marines from ITR in the BX @ Camp Pendleton last weekend!
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SSG Laureano Pabon
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CSM Charles Hayden , Yes I'm aware of that , I have a problem though, I never served in the USMC but I learned to sing like the Marines. :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h47n691fy3o
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SGT Cda 564, Assistant Team Sergeant
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3">I like all the ones we aren't allowed to call anymore.&nbsp;</font><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3">Find it funny we can shoot at human&nbsp;silhouettes&nbsp;on the range, but cant talk about it in a cadence!?</font></div>
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SPC(P) Radio Operator/Maintainer
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Ditto Sergeant, political correctness is getting excessive.<br>
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LTC Jason Bartlett
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I have a ton of favorites but one that the privates loved when I was on the trail was "Killing The Baby Seals". But the one that got them most motivated was "Napalm Sticks to Kids". Pretty sure that you don't want to use them in today's PC environment. 

 

Killing The Baby Seals

Way up north where the air gets cold

We're running out of money and we're running out of gold

So now I earn my living

Killing the baby seals (arp arp)


You can hit `em with a bat you can hit `em with a brick

You can poke `em in th eye with your eye pokin stick

That's how I earn my living

Killing the baby seals (arp arp)

 

You can slash `em in the head you can slash `em in the throat

Then throw `em in the back of your fishing boat

That's how I earn my living

Killing the baby seals (arp arp)

 

My wife and kids they hate me

The Army they just won't take me

because I earn my living

Killing the baby seals (arp arp)

 

Napalm Sticks to Kids

We shoot the sick, the young, the lame,

We do our best to maim,

Because the kills all count the same,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Chorus: Napalm Napalm sticks to kids,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Flying low across the trees,

Pilots doing what they please,

Dropping frags on refugees,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Goods in the open, making hay,

But I can hear the gunships say,

"There'll be no Chieu Hoi today,"

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

See those farmers over there,

Watch me get them with a pair,

Blood and guts just everywhere,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

I've only seen it happen twice,

But both times it was mighty nice,

Shooting peasants planting rice,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Napalm, son, is lots of fun,

Dropped in a bomb or shot from a gun,

It gets the gooks when on the run,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Drop some napalm on a farm,

It won't do them any harm,

Just burn off their legs and arms,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

CIA with guns for hire,

Montagnards around a fire,

Napalm makes the fire go higher,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

I've been told it's not so neat,

To catch gooks burning in the street,

But burning flesh, it smells to sweet,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Children sucking on a mother's tit,

Wounded gooks down in a pit,

Dow Chemical doesn't give a shit,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Bombadiers don't care a bit,

Just as long as the pieces fit,

When you stuff the bodies in a pit,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Eighteen kids in a No Fire Zone,

Rooks under arms and going home,

Last in line goes home alone,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Chuck in a sampan, sitting in the stern,

They don't think their boats will burn,

Those damn gooks will never learn,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Cobras flying in the sun,

Killing gooks is lots of fun,

Get one pregnant and it's two for one,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Shoot civilians where they sit,

Take some pictures as you split,

All your life you'll remember it,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

NVA are all hard core,

Flechettes never are a bore,

Throw those PSYOPS out the door,

Napalm sticks to kids.

 

Gather kids as you fly over town,

By throwing candy on the ground,

Then grease 'em when they gather 'round,

Napalm sticks to kids.

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SGT Journeyman Plumber
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The baby seal cadence is by far my favorite.
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SGT James Elphick
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http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/07/napalm-sticks-to-kids/
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SGT Anthony Mason
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Chicken jumped off the table and started Marching Time
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LTC David Brown
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One f my favorites
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My girl's a vegetable<br>She lives in a hospital<br>But I would do anything<br>To keep her alive</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has a green TV<br>It's called an EKG<br>But I would do anything<br>To keep her alive</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has no arms or legs<br>That's why we call her pegs<br>But I would do anything<br>To keep her alive</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S</p>
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SSG John M.
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My girl got big ole feet bigger than then the 7th fleet...But I would do anything
To keep her alive
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For the communicators in a platoon out there. &nbsp;<div><br></div><div>"Charlie Oscar Mike Mike"</div><div>"Papa Lima Tango"</div><div>"Charlie Oscar Mike Mike"<br></div><div>"Papa Lima Tango"<br></div><div>"Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit"</div><div>"If you ain't comm, you ain't shit"</div><div><br></div><div>It always motivated others when singing "If I die in a combat zone" "box me up and ship me home" "dress me up in a set a blues" "comb my hair and tie my shoes" "pin my medals upon my chest" "tell my momma I did my best"</div>
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same thing just a different version, very soulful this one
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absolutely, very true.
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LCpl Rick Ponton
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EVERY WHERE WE GO PEOPLE WANTA KNOW WHO WE ARE WHERE WE COME FROM WE COME FROM A CITY A MOTIVATED CITY THEY CALL THIS CITY SAN DIEGO OOH RAH MOTTO MOTTO GOT A LOT OF MOTIVATION DEDA DEDA GOT A LOT OF DEDICATION OOH RAH TO THE CORPS. ONE MILE NO GOOD TWO MILES GETTING BETTER THREE MILES ALMOST THERE FOUR MILES STAND STRONG FIVE MILES JUST RIGHT OHRAH TO THE COPRS SEMPER FI GOT A LOT OF MOTIVATION
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SSG Maurice P.
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L/CPL Ponton love it but the parris island one rules hdehehehehehehe my brother
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My favorites have been banned. Boo!!!!!!!!!!! : (
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PFC Eric Minchey
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Called the Ballad of The Green Berets as a cadence once, but My Favorite is:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Airborne Ranger (Shoot to Kill)</span><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">I hear the choppers humming<br>They're hovering overhead<br>They've come to get the wounded<br>They've come to get the dead</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Airborne (shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot to kill)<br>Ranger (shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot to kill) *</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">My buddy's in a foxhole<br>A bullet in his head<br>The medic says he’s wounded<br>But I know that he's dead</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Airborne (shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot to kill)<br>Ranger (shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot to kill) *</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Sitting in a foxhole<br>Sharpening my knife<br>Up jumped the enemy<br>I hate to take his life</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Airborne (shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot to kill)<br>Ranger (shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot to kill) *</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">And now the battle's over<br>The smoke is all around<br>We wanted to go home<br>But we're six feet underground</p><p align="center" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></p><div class="pta-link-card"><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/m5WJJVSE_BE/maxresdefault.jpg"></div><div class="pta-link-card-content"><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE">Ballad of the Green Berets - [HD] - - - SSGT Barry SADLER</a></div><div class="pta-link-card-description">The brave men of the Green Berets. http://NeedGOD.com</div></div><div style="clear:both"></div><div class="pta-box-hide"><i class="icon-remove"></i></div></div>
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SSG Derrick Antrom
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I have this album I love it and know every word
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Last night we had a fire fight
Those M60 tracers fired thru the night
The sounds of mortars blasting over head
When I looked around all my friends were dead
Up came Charlie from a muddy lake
So I had to cut him up with my Gerber blade
And I will tell you no lies
Cross my heart and hope to die

Two little kids on a patty dyke
Well they're aiming stakes for a Cobra strike
Two little kids in a field of wheat
So I called on in some Willy Peat
And I will tell you no fibs
Napalm it sticks to kids
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SFC Case Agent
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Thank you sir, I heard that once at basic but for the life of me couldn't find it online or anyone I'm stationed with.
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SSG John M.
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I went to basic in 1982 not politically correct...the Cadence was called I wish that all the ladies.


I wish that all the ladies were bricks in a pile and I was a mason i'd lay em all in style...

You get my drift lol
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SPC Kelly Grindstaff
SPC Kelly Grindstaff
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Early 80's also all the ones mentioned I remember this and can't remember all of one of the re frames was "NA PALM" sticks to kids". yes the worst ones came out of the Infantry
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