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Napalm Sticks to Kids. " Napalm Sticks to Kids " is a protest song that has seen life as both a published track and an informal military cadence. It originates from the Vietnam War, during which napalm —an incendiary gel —saw extensive use.
In 1972, Sergeant Mike Elliot had the lyrics to "Napalm Sticks to Kids" published as a poem in the first issue of the Helping Hand newsletter. The song had originally been composed by US Army and US Air Force soldiers assigned to 1/9th Cavalry while deployed to South Vietnam. Each soldier present wrote a verse about actions in which they ...
United States Army soldiers calling cadence, during Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson (South Carolina) in 2008. In the United States armed services, a military cadence or cadence call is a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching. In the United States, these cadences are sometimes called ...
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cadence is the more common term in the us, not jody [unsigned user] Google suggests that military cadence is vastly more common than jody call or cadence call. -- Tysto 09:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC) [ reply] No objection from me. I suspect that cadence generally is the most common term, but cadence is a disambiguation page.
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Novelty song. Length. 1:48. Songwriter (s) Traditional, Gitz Rice credited. "Gee, Mom, I Want to Go Home" (also known as "I Don't Want No More of Army Life") is a traditional, humorous song satirizing life in the Armed Forces. Each verse has two lines relating what recruits are told, followed by an exaggerated description of the fact. For example:
The energetic song features the kids rapping over a bouncy, drum-and-bass techno beat about finding their spark in vibrant performances. “The Spark” came as part of an arts initiative in Cork ...