Feel the Marne love

Okay, so you should be able to tell that I'm tinkering with the site. I wanted to upload the official 3rd ID song - Dog Face Soldier. I ended up including all the stuff I've downloaded from Amazon.com - but just snippets. (and some stuff is stuff Eric needed to learn for the rock band, not necessarily stuff I would have picked myself). I'm not techy enough to pull those out.

Anywooo. When Eric was with the 101st, they had a fight song - a Rendezvous with Destiny. Very inspiring, good esprit de corps. The 3rd ID - not so much. It's a freakin' show tune!!! You expect Judy Garland and Andy Rooney to start singing it with a chorus line behind them! Click on the mp3 player, and it's the 2nd clip.

Here are the words:

This song was used in the Audie Murphy movie To Hell and Back, based on this autobiography of the same name, and is the official song of the 3rd Infantry Division. You can here it played, and sung, on their website at http://www.stewart.army.mil/Display....F-F8EA940979C2 8)

I Wouldn't Give A Bean
To Be A Fancy Pants Marine
I'd Rather Be A
Dog Face Soldier Like I Am

I Wouldn't Trade My Old OD's
For All The Navy's Dungarees
For I'm The Walking Pride Of Uncle Sam

On Army Posters That I Read
It Says "Be All That You Can"
So They're Tearing Me Down
To Build Me Over Again

I'm Just A Dog Face Soldier
With A Rifle On My Shoulder
And I Eat Raw Meat
For Breakfast E'V'RY Day

So Feed Me Ammunition
Keep Me In Third Division
Your Dog Face Soldier's A-Okay

Now, imagine every soldier in the division standing at attention at 6:30 a.m. before PT singing this.