Battle Hymn Of Lt Calley Lyrics

Battle Hymn Of Lt Calley lyrics

BATTLE HYMN OF LT. CALLEY

 Terry Nelson & C Company

 

 Once upon a time there was a little boy who wanted to grow up

 And be a soldier and serve his country in whatever way he could

 He would parade around the house with a sauce pan on his head

 For a helmet, a wooden sword in one hand and the American flag in the other

 As he grew up, he put away the things of a child but he never let go of the
flag

 

 My name is William Calley, I'm a soldier of this land

 I've tried to do my duty and to gain the upper hand

 But they've made me out a villain they have stamped me with a brand

 As we go marching on

 

 I'm just another soldier from the shores of U.S.A.

 Forgotten on a battle field then thousand miles away

 While life goes on as usual from New York to Santa Fe

 As we go marching on

 

 I've seen my buddies ambushed on the left and on the right

 And their youthful bodies riddled by the bullets of the night

 Where all the rules are broken and the only law is might

 As we go marching on

 

 While we're fighting in the jungles they were marching in the street

 While we're dying in the rice fields they were helping our defeat

 While we're facing V.C. bullets they were sounding a retreat

 As we go marching on

 

 With our sweat we took the bunkers, with our tears we took the plain

 With our blood we took the mountains and they gave it back again

 Still all of us are soldiers, we're too busy to complain

 As we go marching on

 

 When I reach my final campground in that land beyond the sun

 And the great commander asks me, "Did you fight or did you run?"

 I'll stand both straight and tall stripped of medals, rank and gun

 And this is what I'll say:

 

 Sir, I followed all my orders and I did the best I could

 It's hard to judge the enemy and hard to tell the good

 Yet there's not a man among us would not have understood

 

 We took the jungle village exactly like they said

 We responded to their rifle fire with everything we had

 And when the smoke had cleared away a hundred souls lay dead

 

 Sir, the soldier that's alive is the only once can fight

 There's no other way to wage a war when the only one in sight

 That you're sure is not a VC is your buddy on your right

 

 When all the wars are over and the battle's finally won

 Count me only as a soldier who never left his gun

 With the right to serve my country as the only prize I've won

 As we go marching on

 Glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah