Military Jodies?

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Ken Meadows, Iola, Texas
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 02:29 PM

I had the distinction performing with SGT Frank Duckworth's TACHIKAWA JODY DRILL, TEAM from 1956 to 1957, when it was summarily dis banned. SGT Duckworth tour ended late 1957. He was transferred to Lackland AFB, San Antonio,TX as a DI for the WAF basic trainee. There he formed a WAF drill team who went on to perform the Ed Sullivan show. The drill team was very popular inn the Far east in the 1950. The team was invited to perform at several major events, notably the BOWL,TOKYO,1956. Performing half time at football games was a standard that everyone looked forward to.
Anyone who is interested can contact me @[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 11:41 PM

A little dog
A puppy dog
was sitting on
my table saw
I lured him by
with a piece of meat
And the i cut off his (clap) little feet

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Full metal jacket
Date: 23 May 11 - 01:00 PM

I don't know know what Ive been told. Eskimo pussy is mighty cold. Hochi Min is a son of a bitch. He's got tiny blue balls and a seven year itch.2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate our drill instructor

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 May 11 - 07:34 PM

A yellow bird
A yellow bird
Was sitting on
Was sitting on
My window sill
My window sill
I lured him in
I lured him in
With some bread
With some bread
And then I smashed
And then I smashed
His little head
His little head
So the moral is
So the moral is
Want some head
Get some bread!

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,guest from denver
Date: 07 Sep 10 - 04:53 PM

C130 rolling down the strip
Rangers back from a killing trip
picked up the stewardess and laid her on the deck
wrapped her legs around my neck
tasted so good and tasted so fine
washed it down with a bottle of wine

Left right or left,etc.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 12:20 AM

im needing some help finding one if these im sorry i dont know what to call em i heard so many names my family calls em cajons but i lost my dad in 2007 i remember parts of one he did all the time it was something about (i use to ride cadilac now im walking backpack)
and one about (look momma what the army done to me) if anyone could help it would mean so much to me
          thanks
             merissa

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,PFC
Date: 06 May 10 - 11:25 PM

i lured him in
"
with a peice of bread
"
and then I crushed
"
his f-ing head
"


the doctor came
"
to check his head
"
"indeed" he said
"
your bird is dead


The moral of
"
the story is
"
to get some head (alt verse: if you want some bread)
"
you need some bread (alt verse: dont lose your head)
"

a tiny mouse
"
with tiny feet
"
was sittin on
"
my toilet seat
"

I pushed him in
"
and flushed him down
"
i sat and laughed (alt verse: the little mouse)
"
and watched him drown (alt verse: went round and round)
"

im sure there"s more but thats all i got

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Trevor JOnes
Date: 01 May 10 - 10:13 AM

Listen to it

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Dc
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 09:16 PM

AIRBOURNE RANGER RAVIN MAD
HES GOT A TAB I WISH I HAD
BLACK AND WHITE AND HALF MOON SHAPE
AIRBOURNE RANGER HES GONE APE
JUMPING THROUGH WINDOWS KICKING DOWN WALLS
AIRBOURNE RANGER HES GONE APE
SO IF THERES TROUBLE IN THE WORLD TODAY CALL ON THE MEN IN THE BLACK BARETS


RANGERS LEAD THE WAY HOOAH!

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 09:10 PM

I wanna be an airbourne ranger
livin the life of sex and danger
and if i die in the old drop zone
box me up and ship me home
put my arms across my chest
tell my girl i did my best


Remmber

Rangers Lead The Way HOOAH!

Subject: The Yellow Bird?
From: GUEST,Franfurt Chrome-Dome
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 08:24 PM

Have have any of you swinging &^$*#*# Heard of the Yellow Bird? You know the one with the yellow bill. Come on he sat on my window sill?
After he had a cranial contution the cook did something with him. We only sang the cook part twice in 1973 and I don't remember how it goes. Does anyone out there remember it?

Charlie 1-3 Fort Lost in the Woods, in misery (Fort Leonard Wood, Mo)

Subject: Or this one...
From: GUEST,Jen
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 11:25 AM

Or this one that was on "Lie to Me" (top show, btw) not so long back and got me thinking about these and inspired the search that led me here. (I'm making a mod for Oblivion to give the guards Jody Calls. ;) )

I tought that b*tch her left and right
Tapped that a$$ then left last night.

heh heh.
Jen

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Guest Jen
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 10:54 AM

I'm an ex British Marine, so in the interests of our American friends not trying to hunt me down and render my children b*st*rds, here's a nice friendly one of ours I remember when we were having a bit of a sing off some of your USMC fellas a while back.

PS - We did drink you under the bloody table by the way. I'm not starting a fight I'm stating a fact. ;)

We're Brit Marines so we don't sing,
We kill, we shout, we do our thing.
But we heard your boys, soundin fine,
We thought we'd give you a couple more lines.
The lads of the core they cannot drink,
A couple of pints and they start to shrink.
Throw in a chaser, maybe four,
Those USMC lads sing no more.
We're Brit Marines so we don't sing,
But the Yanks just learned we love our drink!

Jen

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 02:54 PM

??? LH?

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Micah
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 09:34 PM

Does anyone know of the Air Force jodie that has a part in it that says:

"Terrorists, Terrorists Be aware
F-16's are in the air"

I haven't been able to find it anywhere. If someone could help me out that would be great. You can email me at [e-mail]. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,tiffany ellinger
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 10:28 PM

do you know any more

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Senior Airman Brown
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 02:12 AM

Everyone seems to like the yellow bird one, well here is the yellow bird that i know:

A yellow bird
a yellow bird
with a yellow bill
with a yellow bill
was sittin on
was sittin on
my window sill
my window sill
i lured him in
i lured him in
with a piece of bread
with a piece of bread
and then i smashed
and then i smashed
his little head
his little head
oh god
oh god
i'm such a clutse
i'm such a clutse
i missed his head
i missed his head
and i smashed his nuts
and i smashed his nuts
now there is a bird
now there is a bird
in a bush
in a bush
who cant get laid
who cant get laid
his nuts were squished
his nuts were squished

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,cali
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 02:18 PM

hear is one from my rotc unit it is funny
Birdy Birdy in the sky
got some white wash in my eye
smells like water taste loike spit
oh my gosh its buring S***( you do not say it you stomp with your left foot)

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Azizi
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:42 AM

Here are two cadences that were sent in to my website today:


Caller:1,2,3,4 Runners:1,2,3,4, Caller: Run a little Run a little run some moree Runners:Run a little Run a little run some moree Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane When Your Left foot strikes the ground Little Liza Jane I wanna hear that clapping sound Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Liza Jane your my girl Little Liza Jane when I get home Imma rock your world Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane I Came back home from a long flight Little Liza Jane now where gonna Boom Boom all night Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane Heeey Little Liza Little Liza Jane
-Doggie ; 10/28/2008; http://www.cocojams.com/military_cadences.htm


**

This Cadence is basically a Manfred Mann song that was made popular by a movie called Stripes   Caller:There she was just a-walkin' down the street, Runner: singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do" Caller:Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet, Caller:singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do" Runner:She looked good (looked good), she looked fine (looked fine) Runner:She looked good, she looked fine and I nearly lost my mind Runner:Before I knew it she was walkin' next to me, Caller:singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do" Runner:Holdin' my hand just as natural as can be, Caller:singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do" Caller:We walked on (walked on) to my door (my door) We walked on to my door, then we kissed a little more
-Doggie; 10/28/2008; http://www.cocojams.com/military_cadences.htm


-snip-

Thanks, Doggie, for sending in those examples!

Here's a link to that portion of the 1981 movie Stripes:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AvMNXBGgpg

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,ssgt b
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 01:36 PM

i cant find the words to theres a drill sergeant there can some one help

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Lainey (future soldier)
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:13 PM

the yellow bird one... the way i learned and i what i believe is a more humorous way of saying it went like....
a yellow bird
with a yellow bill
was sitting on
my window sill
i lured him in
with a peice of bread
and then i smashed
his little head
the doctor came to check its head
he said this bird
is surley dead
the moral of
the story is
if you want some head
get some bread

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,CAP cadet
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 03:17 PM

A Yellow bird with a yellow bill,
Was sitting on my window sill,
I lured him closer with a piece of bread,
Slammed my window on his little head.

The doctor came to check its head,
He said the birdy sure was dead.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,CAP Cadet
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 03:11 PM

If you want "Napalm Sticks to Kids" the more "politically correct" verses are on the wikipedia article for "Military Cadence"

Subject: RE: Highschool cheer?
From: GUEST,daniel
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 06:11 AM

dude i was appointed cheer leader for my house..the purple house..yeah i know the gay colour..but cld u hlp me make a cheer ..PS:its got no movements..

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Decateur Blair
Date: 02 Jan 08 - 11:34 PM

WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN:
When I get to heaven St. Peter he will say:
"How'd you put the fire out in the month of May?",
" Raise my hose up Higher and Higher...
Thats how I do it... Im a Fire Fighter "
When I go to hell, Ole Satan he will say:
"How'd you put the fire out in the month of May?"
"Raise my hose up higher and higher...
Thats how I do it, I'm a Fire Fighter."
And when I get home, my fiance' she will say:
"How'd you please me all night long in the month of May?"
"Raise my hose up Higher and higher,
Thats how I do it, Im a fire fighter!"

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:05 AM

"Road guards" - these people were designated members of a flight* and ran out to stop traffic in all directions when the flight had to march across an intersection. If I remember correctly, there was no singing when crossing the street. Possibly this was to avoid irritating halted drivers any more than they already were by having to wait, possibly to allow the road guards to hear commands.

To Mac: the singing/marching and cadence calling is something that still survives today with no regard for collectors or folklorists. When I was in basic (I know, it was a bazillion years ago) each flight had to come up with its own song. They wrote, stole and adapted or just plain stole. Ours was "If they could see me now, that little gang of mine, wakin' up at dawn and marchin' in a line" etc. The whole flight learned it and sang it as we marched to our graduation.

The Air Force doesn't sing much as, once out of basic and technical training schools, there isn't really any marching. The Army and Marines however, do. I was in Kuwait with a collection of units, and would walk to the bathrooms in the morning and be passed by various units doing PT, all singing their OWN songs. I would have loved to collect them, but it would require me running behind them with a recording device, holding a microphone. That wasn't going to happen.

The point is that you can write your own song. You can take an existing chant or song and change it or you can write a whole new one. Get the guys in the unit to help - they just need pairs of lines that rhyme all fitting the same rhythm. That's what military units do.

* Flight in the Air Force, platoon in the Army and I don't have a clue about the Navy.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 08:25 AM

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 [??]

**

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!"

**

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

**
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...

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 03:32 AM

MAC:

A clarrification of Azzi - there are a fair number of Jodies here.
In the upper intro to this area there are many blue colored links which when clicked on, will lead you to similar discusstions on the topic....it is worth following them through.

You might also look at the POEM section (BOTTOM - left side)from the Miami Police Dept.
http://207.234.170.190/mpd-fr.htm

In civilian populations you must be CRITICALLY AWARE of how you are perceived by the public = Be Carefeul.....of things like "your pants are loose, your boots are tight, your balls are swingin' from left to right." and much worse.... we a co-ed society now.

The following is from "Unconsidered Trifles"
http://unconsideredtrifles.blogspot.com/2005/03/and-show-me-to-shouting-varletry.html

"Road guards in and road guards out,
Road guards runnin' all about.
If I had a low IQ,
I could be a road guard too.
If I had one lower than that,
I would wear a gunny's hat.
Road guards, road guards, don't be blue,
_______ can be road guards too."

From Utah State "Hard News Cafe"
http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/archive/NOV2004/112304_rotcwomen.html

Hey, Hey we're gonna RUN
(Hey, Hey we're gonna RUN)
Run all day 'til the runnin's DONE
(Run all day 'til the runnin's DONE)

Runnin' THERE, Runnin' HERE
(Runnin' THERE, Runnin' HERE)
Runnin' FAR, Runnin' NEAR
(Runnin' FAR, Runnin' NEAR)
When we get just a little bit BORED
(When we get just a little bit BORED)
Then we're gonna run some MORE
(Then we're gonna run some MORE).

Another good place to check is the University of Chicago
Cadence Calls on the left side of the history page.

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

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Sorry, but it seems AZZI'S suggestions are lacking in testostorone and a spirit to see things through...with that common touch of sarcastic irony - that makes a good jody great.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Azizi
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 02:12 AM

GUEST,mac, here's an example of a police cadence that was included in this wikipedia article about cadences {jodies}: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_call

"Police personnel who train in para-military fashion also have acquired the tradition for its recruits in the police academy. However, the "lyrics" are changed for law enforcement, for example:

A six gun a tin star a horse named Blue.
In 1890 a cop held these true.
In 1930 the tommy gun.
It made police work a lot more fun.
A big block Dodge Polara it's true.
In sixty six it came out of the chute.
We got night vision on our M14's.
We're the ones they call to secure the scene
In 20 years, who knows what it will be.
Phaser guns mounted on my HumVee.
From a horse named Blue to a big HumVee
We'll still PT in the Academy!
(Last line yelled) "

**

Also, you could use the folk process to make up a police cadence by changing some of the words of an already existing cadence. See for example the Sound Off {Duckworth chant} in this thread which was posted by Joe O.,{Offer?} on 29 Sep 2004:

Hib-hub, hib-hub, hib-hub, hib-hub

The heads are up
The chests are out
The arms are swinging
In cadence count
Sound off (sound off)
Sound off (sound off)
Cadence count
1-2-3-4 (1-2, 3-4)
etc.

-snip-

Also, it seems to me that this fire fighting cadence could easily be changed to a police cadence:

WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN
When I get to heaven St. Peter's he will say "How'd you make your living" "How'd you earn your pay" I'll hold my axe up higher and higher Cause I make my living as a Fire Fighter! Fi-Er-Er-Er-Er Fight-Er-Er-Er-Er-Er And when I go to hell Ole Satan he will say "How'd you make your living" "How'd you earn your pay" I'll hold my hose up higher and higher Cause I make my living as a Fire Fighter! Fi-Er-Er-Er-Er Fight-Er-Er-Er-Er-Er
-Sam A; 11/3/2006 {from a Tech School at a USA Fire Academy}
http://www.cocojams.com/military_cadences.htm

-snip-

I hope these work for you.

Best wishes,

Azizi

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,mac
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 09:44 PM

I need a police cadence. any suggestions??

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,GUEST/TAWAN
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 04:23 AM

MAN IM LOOKING FOR THIS CADENCE CALLED GI BLUES! I CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE. IVE LOOKED ALLOVER FOR IT. IF ANYONE COULD HELP ME THANX
EMAIL: [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Molly Brown Military Jodies, Jody, Cadence?
From: and e
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 10:00 PM

Below is the Molly Brown cadence (Recording)

Molly Brown (Recording)
(Tune - Sound Off (aka Duckworth Chant))

Molly, Molly, Molly Brown,
Said no man could lay her down.

Over the hill comes Piss Ball Pete,
50lbs. of swinging meat.

He laid Molly in the grass,
Suck his cock right up her ass.

Then old Molly blew a fart,
Blew his balls 10 feet apart.

Over the hill comes Piss Ball Pete,
50lbs. of shredded meat.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Kevin Johnson
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 07:08 PM

This is one my dad learned at Fort Bragg in the early Seventies, and we always sang it on long trips when I was growing up. It's similar to a different one I've seen on the internet and goes to the tune of "When Johnny comes Marching Home again."

I got a letter from Uncle Sam hurrah hurrah (x2)
I got a letter from Uncle Sam he's sending me to Vietnam
And we'll all be dead by the summer of (insert year)

Other lyrics:
They issued me an M-16. . . and turned me into a fighting machine.

They issued me a bayonette. . . so I could kill without regret.

They issued me an entrenching tool. . . and made me dig like a goddamn fool

They issued me a protective mask. . . and then they threw me in the gas.

They issued me a hand grenade. . . and you should have seen the mess I made.

They shipped me home in a plastic bag. . . the son's of bitches they lost my tags.

They buried me in a deep dark hole. . . They buried me in D.C. but I lived in Idaho.

The moral of the story is. . . to live your life the way it is.
Or we'll all be dead by the summer of (insert year).

Subject: OLD DOG BLUE
From: GUEST,zach
Date: 21 Aug 07 - 12:23 PM

I had an old dog and his name was blue
blue wanta be a combat diver two
so I bough him a mask and four tiny fins
took him to the ocean and I threw his ass in

well blue came up to my surprise
with a shark in his teeth and a gleem in his eye

now old blues a combat diver too
dont mess with him or he'll bite you

cus he's hardcore
all the way
hardcore
every day
its who we are
its what we do
para
rescue
combat
controll
motivated
dedicated
armor plated
hydrated
always wet
never dry
love to run
ain't no lie
hooya
hooya
hooya!

Subject: RE: Military Jodies? the beer song (AF version)
From: GUEST,zach
Date: 21 Aug 07 - 11:46 AM

This is the AF Combat Controller Version.


(INTRO)

Got drunk last night,
Got drunk the night before,
Now I'm gona drink like I've never drunk before,
cuz when I drink I'm as happy as can be,
cuz we're all part of the drinking family

OH.. the drinking family is the best family,
We all came over from old Germany,
You got your highland drunks,
you got your lowland drunks,
you got your Amsterdam drunks,
and your other-damn drunks

(CHORUS)
*********************************************************************
Singin Glorious,
Victorious,
One Keg a beer for the four of us,
Singin Glory be to god that there are no more of us,
cuz one of us could drink it all alone,
DAMN NEAR,
PASS THE BEER,
TO THE REAR,
of the squaaaadron!

*********************************************************************

(VERSE 1)

There are no controllers in the Army *In the Army*,
There are no controllers in the Army *In the Army*,
cuz there all a bunch a queers sanitation engineers,
there are no controllers in the Army *In the Army*

(CHORUS)***************

(VERSE 2)

There are no controllers in the navy *In the Navy*,
There are no controllers in the navy *In the Navy*,
cuz there all on ships and boats makin love to sheeps n' goats,
there are no controllers in the Navy *In the Navy*

(CHORUS)***************

(VERSE 3)

There are no controllers in the Corp *In the Corp*,
There are no controllers in the Corp *In the Corp*,
cuz there going shore to shore makin housewives outa whores,
there are no controllers in the Corp *In the Corp*,

(CHORUS)***************

(VERSE 4)

There are no controllers in the Coast Guard *In the Coast Guard*,
There are no controllers in the Coast Guard *In the Coast Guard*,
cuz there all a bunch of fags smokin marajuana bags,
there are no controllers in the Coast Guard *In the Coast Guard*

(CHORUS)***************

(VERSE 5)

All the controllers are in the Air Force *In the Air Force*,
All the controllers are in the Air Force *In the Air Force*,
cus all the ladies say..... a controllers a great lay
all the controllers are in the Air Force *In the Air Force*

(CHORUS)***************

The End, hope you like it, Please don't get ruffled about the interservice picking it's all in good fun from the hard guys of the CHAIR FORCE :)

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 08:35 AM

Here's Old King Cole in the DT. (I hope Dave checks his request in this thread, because I'm not e-mailing him.)


As for Marines singing 'Airborne Ranger', I went to a tech school with people from various services. They put a Marine Vietnam vet in charge of calling cadence for our little PT runs in the early morning.

...oops.

His version of Airborne Ranger was close to the one Rap posted in the Airborne Ranger thread. We ran past officer's housing. Eventually, someone complained and we wound up singing 'bleep' a lot. I seem to remember verses about napalm and bayonets and babies along with the f*cking verses. The song was highly offensive, but they liked us to sing loud, and knowing we were pissing off officers sure helped.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,dave
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 09:51 PM

I was woundering if anybody knows a cadince called ole king cole it is a very long cadence it stiats with privite and ends at cornal.
if you know how it goes email me at [e-mail] thanks you would be much liked.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:00 PM

Golly, I muddled that post when I said the source of the call wasn't relevent. I didn't mean who composed the call, how it originated, etc., but rather that the writer of the article hadn't paid much attention to the liner notes and/or "song List" on the album to see who was singing/chanting the cadence call being discussed. He wasn't discussing who was the group that was recorded, but rather the chant itself. Hope I make a bit more sense now. Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 09:10 AM

Az: I suppose the record of US military cadence calls included such calls from various sources, including both Marine and Army units, and the author of the article just got confused as to which call came from which service. Easy enough to do, especially when the objective was to discuss the cadence call itself, and the source of the call wasn't really relevent to the discussion at hand.   Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Azizi
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:23 AM

EuGene,

According to the main page's numbering, my 24 Jun 07 - 05:59 PM post to this thread was #100, my 24 Jun 07 - 06:43 PM post was #101, and your 25 Jun 07 - 12:02 AM post was #102.

As to your question about the significance of getting the #100 post, while there's no material prize, some Mudcatters try to get the #100 post in a thread for the thrill and the joy and the status [?] of it. There are a few Mudcat members who really compete to get the 100th post. I won't name names but they know who they are :o)

These members may not post to a particular thread, but are alert to the fact that a thread is approaching #100. And then they'll pounce to bag that #100th post. Often the #100 post in a thread doesn't have any other comment but the number "100" [with or without an exclamation mark].

I suppose catching the 200th post, and #300th post [and so on] is also seen as an accomplishment. However, most Mudcat threads don't go that high.

I waited for a while to see if someone else was going to take the 100th post to this thread. But when no one else did, I grabbed it. I've only had a few 100th posts in my almost three years here. So, I count this as a red letter day :o}}

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Regarding your comment about that article's attribution of the Airborne Rancher song to the Marines, it seems they got it wrong.
That article is oldish, so I imagine that other folks may have pointed that out to the authors of that article. But, not knowing anything about the military, I didn't recognize that mistake.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 12:02 AM

AZ: Actually yours was the 101th post, but I'm not real sure I understand the point about post #100 . . . is there a prize involved like "The one millionth customer! He is the lucky winner of this shiny new Tatra Djet Sport Coupe!!"

Something doesn't compute in that article about Marines using that Airborne Ranger chant . . . Airborne Rangers are specially trained ARMY paratroopers! I have two brothers who served in the Marine Corps, and they said no self respecting Marine would ever use a chant about wanting to be an Army trooper - even in jest!!

Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 06:43 PM

Pardon me if this is too serious a comment for this thread. But I feel the need to get right down to the real nitty gritty...

With regard to the article whose link I provided, that author wrote that cadence calls "takes lyrical fragments of social history and sets them to riffs and patterns hot-rodded from blues and rock & roll, and more distantly, the call-and-response of gospel and African music".

Given that the genres of blues, and rock & roll, and gospel, and African music" [as a broad brush generic category] all originate from Black folks [at least the type of gospel I believe the author is talking about] and given that Willie Duckworth [whose 1944 Sound Off chant is rightly considered the beginning of modern military cadence calls] is African American, and further given the fact that the other name for military cadence calls is "jodies" and the name "jodies" came from the African American literary character "Joe de organ grinder", given all this plus the mention of the call & response pattern and sexual braggadocio features of military cadence calls, it seems to me that it would be correct and proper to consider the genre of "cadence calls" as a part of African American cultural heritage. And if that goes too far, at the very least, it seems to me that it would be correct and proper to acknowledge that cadence calls are heavily influenced by African American cultural heritages.   

It also seems to me that people think that they have to tip toeing around the mention of race or be considered racist. One consequence of this is that recognition of the accomplishments of African Americans and other people of color may be "invisiblized".

Previously, recognition of Black accomplishments were discounted, trivilized, and/or invisiblized or claimed by others because the powers that be were indeed racist. And that beat is still going on today a lot of times and in a lot of places, though- I hasten to say-not on this particular Mudcat thread and not usually on other Mudcat threads.

For a number of reasons, I don't think it's a good thing to discount, trivilize, and indivisibilize Black accomplishments and the influence Black people have had on specific music genres and other parts of history and cultures.

For a number of reasons, I don't think it's a good thing that African American accomplishments & influences are claimed by others. I also don't think that it's a good thing that no acknowlegment of the racial background of folks is given at all since in this "White is the default race" world, many people will automatically think that White people were the creators of the primary influencers of whatever it is that folks are talking or reading about.

This is not to say that people of other races and cultures have had no part in the creation of blues, rock & roll, gospel, or military cadence calls. But, if truth were told, all of those genres have been and are now most heavily influenced by African American cultures and other Black cultures.

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I just needed to say that.

You can take all of it or some of it or leave it all behind.


Azizi

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 05:59 PM

Here's an excerpt of an interesting article that I found by goggling "airborne ranger chant":

"Released in 2002 by the Orchard, the recordings of U.S. military "cadence calls" gathered on Marching Cadences of the U.S. Marines, Run in Cadence with the U.S. Marines, Vol. 2 and Run to Cadence with the Recon Marines should be instantly familiar to anyone who has ever watched a war film. These rhythmic chants are always prominently featured in montage sequences of boot camp training. From Stripes to Full Metal Jacket to Jarhead, you know the drill: A vein-popping sergeant barks out bawdy, macho calls and the newly shorn privates grunt back, as stomping combat boots keep time on parade-ground tarmac and the new recruits magically turn into seasoned leathernecks.

Fans of '80s rock will know this stuff for a different reason: The "I wanna be an airborne ranger" chant that fades up at the end of U2's "Seconds" (from their War album) was subsequently immortalized by Judd Nelson-as-Bender, jogging through his high school's halls in the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. U2 and Hughes/Bender were mocking such calls (and military culture in general) as stiff, conformist and square, a matter of top-down discipline and nothing more, and they had a point: this is the sound of individuals tightening into an obedient group, of bodies being brought into line, and that's why these recordings were, somewhat optimistically, marketed as functional fitness soundtracks for running or aerobics. But when you listen to the perverse lyrics and (frequently amazing) vocal performances collected here, the cadence call is revealed as in fact a wildly diverse, popular American folk form in its own right.

Supposedly created in 1944 by private Willie Duckworth's immortal chant ("Sound off, one, two/Sound off, three, four/One, two, three, four/One, two-three, four!"), the cadence call takes lyrical fragments of social history and sets them to riffs and patterns hot-rodded from blues and rock & roll, and more distantly, the call-and-response of gospel and African music. The chanted words are a free-range combination of motifs that offer a window into the military mind: mournful, mocking descriptions of the recruiters who got you into this mess, anxiety about "jodies" (civilians) stealing the sweethearts left behind, somber expressions of death-bound macho grandiloquence, and politically incorrect sexual braggadoccio."

http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/289_200604.html
"I Wanna Be An Airborne Ranger
-snip-

The article continues with a description of the recording.

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Btw, unless someone beat me to it, this is post #100!

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 04:37 PM

Cookster: Yes, as far as I know, I have read them all. Had to clear out a few, hopefully I didn't drop a message from you by mistake. The last one I saw was about how the AK-47 would work while muddy. If you posted anything later that anticipated a reply, I may have accidently deleted it . . . try again. Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: cookster
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 04:16 PM

EuGene, have you read your messages yet?

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 04:14 PM

Whoa, Dubbin! I didn't mean to say that the first 2 lines of the Airborne Ranger chant both had the same words, rather that they were sung the same way, both to the melody of the opening line in "Sukiyaki".

Since that song is in Japanese, I can't print its words! I'm a hillbilly, so my present challenge is English . . . other languages must just bide their time until I get "a round tuit".   Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:59 PM

I forgot another chant that most Army guys might remember, the Airborne Ranger chant:

The first two lines (both the same wording) were sung to a tune similar to (if not exactly like) the opening line melody of the 1960's pop tune "Sukiyaki" (by a Japanese singer, and sung in Japanese). This chant was only used when we were marching double-time, which means trotting, similar to a jogging pace:

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger,
I wanna live a life of danger."

(this was followed by ad-libbed chants, each chant separated from the preceding one by 3 beats/footfalls)

"Up the hill."
"Down the hill."
"Over the hill."
"Under the hill."
"Through the hill."
etc. etc.

The troops would also throw in a lot of loud grunts, "Ah-HOO-Ah!", and other battle cries . . . we probably sounded like a bunch of Don Cossacks singing "Meadowland", sans whistling. I'm guessing that we sounded so fierce that we scared meanies everywhere they might be lurking, sort of like when Puff ". . . let out his mighty roar."   Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: EuGene
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 12:40 AM

Lighter, thanks for allowing me to open my answer with a bit of puntificating . . . the urge to indulge in the basest form of humor was a harlequinade's imperative, and I am weak. Eu

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 08:06 PM

Sorry EuGene. That was me on a different computer w/o a cookie. Thanks for answering!

Subject: RE: Military Jodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 06:16 PM

A yellow bird
with a yellow bill
was perched upon
my window sill
I lurd him in
with a piece of bread
an then I smashed his F'n head!