G                             C                   G
The heart of every man in our platoon must swell with pride
                                              C               D
For the nation's youth, the cream of which is marching at his side
        G                         C               G
For the fascinating rules and regulations that we share
                           C                   D              G
And the quaint and curious costumes that we're called upon to wear


[Verse 2]
                                C                 G
Now Al joined up to do his part defending you and me
                      C                   G            D
He wants to fight and bleed and kill and die for liberty
         A                B
With the hell of war he's come to grips
  C             D
Policing up the filter tips
   G              C             D  G
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!


[Verse 3]
                                  C                   G
When Pete was only in the seventh grade, he stabbed a cop
                 C           G              D
He's real R.A. material, and he was glad to swap
    A                   B
His switchblade and his old zip gun
      C             D
For a bayonet and a new M-1
   G              C             D  G
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!


[Bridge 1]
                         C               D
After Johnny got through basic training, he
      G                   C                   D
Was a soldier through and through when he was done
       A                 B
Its effects were so well rooted
         C             D7
That the next day he saluted
       G              C            G
A Good Humour man, an usher, and a nun


[Verse 4]
                                      C             G
Now, Fred's an intellectual, brings a book to every meal
                     C               G              D
He likes the deep philosophers, like Norman Vincent Peale
   A                 B
He thinks the army's just the thing
  C                  D
Because he finds it "broadening"
   G              C             D   G
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!


[Verse 5]
                                         C              G
Now, Ed flunked out of second grade, and never finished school
                  C            G                   D
He doesn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool
          A             B
But, he's going to be a big success
   C                  D
He heads his class at OCS
   G              C             D  G
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!


[Verse 6]
                                            C               G
Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war
                   C              G             D
But his savoury collations add to our esprit de corps
   A                B
To think of all the marvellous ways
        C              D
They're using plastics nowadays
   G              C             D  G
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier!


[Bridge 2]
                      C             D
Our lieutenant is the up-and-coming type
            G             C                 D
Played with soldiers as a boy, you just can bet
      A              B
It is written in the stars
        C                 D7
He will get his captain's bars
       G             C   D   G
But he hasn't got enough box tops yet


[Verse 7]
                              C                 G
Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell
                          C                 G             D
He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well
   A              B
He used to be, so rumour has
    C              D
The Dean of Men at Alcatraz
   G              C
It makes a fellow proud to be
     G          C
What as a kid I vowed to be
     G          D
What luck to be allowed to be
  G C D
A soooldier
    G
(At ease!)