What are some of your favorite Military Song Lyrics??

2015-04-03T10:33:33-04:00

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)"

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 3 at 2015 10:35 AM

2015-04-03T10:35:59-04:00

This is not military, per se, but it's plenty patriotic. It may even be cliché, but I really am proud to be an American!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox4IRQVGsBU

I'm Proud To Be An American Lyrics

If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life, And I had to start again with just my children and my wife. I'd thank my lucky stars to be l...

Response by SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. made Apr 3 at 2015 10:38 AM

2015-04-03T10:38:40-04:00

Fighting soldiers from the sky,
Fearless men who jump and die.

Response by Capt Richard I P. made Apr 3 at 2015 10:59 AM

2015-04-03T10:59:18-04:00

"Now I lay in my grave at age 21
Long before you were born
Before I bore a son
What good did it do?
Well hopefully for you
A world without war
A life full of color"
"The War was in color" by Carbon Leaf and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf29IIQuqYk

"And I can't help but wonder, now Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again."

"The Green Fields of France" by Dropkick Murphys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaQfLFHYjI

War is not a game. People suffer and die. It is the brutalist of purchases. We must never forget the prices we pay for the liberties and privileges we buy. We must always assess our past transactions against their costs and consider the value of the goals we consider buying in the future, and the costs we are willing to pay for them.

Carbon Leaf - War Was In Color

Vid for Carbon Leaf's "War Was In Color" Lyrics: I see you've found a box of my things - Infantries, tanks and smoldering airplane wings. These old pictures ...

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Apr 3 at 2015 11:41 AM

2015-04-03T11:41:05-04:00

SGT Private RallyPoint Member, 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!

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

Ballad of the Green Berets - [HD] - - - SSGT Barry SADLER

The brave men of the Green Berets. http://NeedGOD.com

Response by LCDR Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 3 at 2015 11:50 AM

2015-04-03T11:50:52-04:00

"we grade on a curve over here in the desert" Toby Keith Ballad Of Balad

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Apr 3 at 2015 11:56 AM

2015-04-03T11:56:58-04:00

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

Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon

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Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 3 at 2015 12:07 PM

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Son of Gun of a Gun-SSgt Barry Sadler
You see this AR-15
she's hard(hot?) and she's mean
And she ain't built for love or fun
And yet this AR-15 is a part of my being
'Cause she is one son of gun of gun

Response by LTC Stephen C. made Apr 3 at 2015 12:11 PM

2015-04-03T12:11:48-04:00

SGT Private RallyPoint Member, here's another of my favorites, "Mansions of the Lord". It was written for the movie "We Were Soldiers", was sung at President Ronald Reagan's funeral and has since become a standard at military funerals.

To fallen soldiers let us sing.
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing.
Our broken brothers let us bring
to the mansions of the Lord.

No more bleeding no more fight.
No prayers pleading through the night.
Just divine embrace, eternal light
in the mansions of the Lord.

Where no mothers cry and no children weep.
We will stand and guard tho the angels sleep.
All through the ages safely keep
the mansions of the Lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGoSWn1tHeo

"Mansions of the Lord" performed by the Cadet Glee Club of West Point

It was this hymn that inspired the production "Stand Ye Steady -- Songs of Courage and Inspiration". During the closing credits of the movie "We Were Soldier...

Response by SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. made Apr 6 at 2015 11:33 AM

2015-04-06T11:33:40-04:00

From Wild Weasels ... 1st In .. 1st Out

I'm a Thud pilot, and I love my plane.
It is my body, I am it's brain.
My Thunder Chief loves me, and I love her too,
But I get the creeps, with only one seat and one engine too.

She's faster than lightening it says on her dials.
To get a Thud airborne takes only two miles.
She's packed with transistors, black boxes, diodes,
But stay alert, 'Cause you might get hurt when she explodes.

She totes more bombs than a B-17.
My F-105 has a gun and she's mean.
But there is one thing that curdles my blood,
It's lonesome up there, Alone in the air in my single seat Thud.

I love my Thud and she loves me too.
She soaks up Flak like a magnet can do.
If I get my hundred and I'm still alive,
I'll have no grief, Good-bye Thunderchief, My F-105!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TBpswks2f8

First In...Last Out

This is part I of the story of the Air Force Wild Weasel SAM suppression mission. I was an F-4G Wild Weasel instructor in the Air force and Loved showing the...

Response by PO2 Mark Saffell made Apr 6 at 2015 11:41 AM

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Well I'm Navy but have to admit mine is The Ballad of the Green Beret.

Response by LCpl Steve Zupan made Jul 6 at 2019 12:41 AM

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"Here they come to snuff the Rooster, oh yeah
Yeah here come the Rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no, you know he ain't gonna die"....

Response by SFC Kevin Childers made Aug 31 at 2024 2:14 PM

2024-08-31T14:14:02-04:00

I learned this from some our brothers down under.

"...
And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
..."

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