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Thread #2915   Message #13273
Posted By: Nonie Rider
26-Sep-97 - 05:38 PM
Thread Name: Military Jodies?
Subject: Military Jodies?
(Sorry to still be asking dumb newcomer questions)

Has anyone collected or discussed jodies, the unofficial military marching chants?

Most of the people I know seem to have run into variants of the left/right gingerbread repeater:

Left. Left.
I LEFT my WIFE and FORTy-nine KIDS
In a STARVing conDITion withOUT any GINGerbread,
HOPE I did RIGHT. RIGHT.
RIGHT for my COUNtry, by GOLLy,
I HAD a good JOB and I LEFT.
Left. Left. (repeat endlessly)

And most of us have heard the tagline "Napalm sticks to kids!" but no memorable verses to match. A friend also sung me another old one (with an actual TUNE) about the appropriate distribution of a keg of beer through the squadron, but I never got her to write it down.

So, is this stuff all discussed somewhere I shoulda looked, or does anyone have input?