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Thread #2915   Message #2161801
Posted By: Azizi
02-Oct-07 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: Military Jodies?
Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
Here are the hyperlinks to the websites that gargoyle shared in his last post to this thread:

http://207.234.170.190/mpd-fr.htm
COP POEMS, PRAYERS & WRITINGS

{Note: this page automatically plays a midi of Amazing Grace...[UGH!!!-the midi not the song}. Btw, I didn't see any cadences on that page...But I supposed the poems could be used to compose a midi [??]

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http://unconsideredtrifles.blogspot.com/2005/03/and-show-me-to-shouting-varletry.html is the second link gargoyle posted has some examples of Jodies and an explanation of the term "Jody". Here's an excerpt of that explanation:

"Tuesday, March 01, 2005
'And show me to the shouting varletry.'

I mentioned military "Jodies" or marching songs, in the previous post, and I thought you would share my amusement when I read this example of what happens when pointy-headed academics try to define/explain things that most ordinary people understand quite naturally:

The songs get the name jody call or jody (also, jodie) from a recurring character, a civilian named "Jody" whose luxurious lifestyle is contrasted with military deprivations in a number of traditional calls. Jody is the person who stays at home, drives the soldier's car, and gets the soldier's sweetheart while the soldier is in recruit training or in country. (Serendipitously, the name works just as well for female soldiers.)
Common themes in jodies include:

homesickness
quotidian complaints about military life
boasts (of one's own unit) and insults (of one's competitor, which may be another unit, another service branch, or the enemy)
humorous and topical references.
Obscene, scatological, and offensively violent jody calls exist; their official use in formal training is now discouraged by the U.S. military, with an emphasis on "clean" versions of traditional jodies. The flexibility of jodies is nearly unlimited, and old jodies have always been retired or rewritten as times and wars change.

Jody calls are a subset of work songs, and share in their rhythmic properties. Most jody calls have a call and response structure; one soldier initiates a line, and the remaining soldiers complete it.

If you're military or have been around military people, you'll no doubt laugh out loud to hear jodies explained using phrases such as "quotidian complaints about military life" or the fact that the US military officially disapproves of "obscene, scatological, and offensively violent" jodies. ha-HA!"

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Here's the third hyperlink that gargoyle provided:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/rotc/cadets/cadence/cadencehistory.htm

This site provides historical information about cadences, and more including a clip of the sound of feet doing a cadence. Here's the direct page to a list of the lyrics of specific cadences:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/rotc/cadets/cadence/cadencelyrics.htm

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Btw, gargoyle, when I first read the fine print of your post I thought you wrote that I was lacking in testostorone. I was gonna respond that since I'm a female that I'm glad you figured that one out. But I re-read your comment and see you were talking about those examples I posted. Well, hey, I'll let those examples speak for themselves. If they wanna duke it out with you cause you talked about their manhood, well, that's on them. But I don't think that what you said is worth fighting over...